ClaudSkills / Engineering / engineering-misc

Soft Screening Startup

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: engineering-misc

type:review

Activate for ANY startup evaluation, investment screening, or company assessment. Triggers include: "evaluate this startup", "screen this company", "should I invest in X", "is this a good investment", "what do you think about this company", "review this startup", "score this company", "rate this pitch", "assess this founder", "quick take on X", "is X worth investing in", "pass or decline on X", "what's your verdict on X", "first look at this company", "quick screen on X", "what's your take on this founder", "is this fundable", "would a VC invest in this". Also triggers when a user pastes a company description, funding ask, or founder background and asks for an opinion. Works on claude.ai and Claude Code. For hard-mode deterministic scoring with Python audit trail, use /venture-capital-intelligence:hard-screening-startup.

What this skill does

Soft Screening Startup is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the engineering-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/soft-screening-startup/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Soft Screening Startup skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/soft-screening-startup
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/soft-screening-startup/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/soft-screening-startup/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/soft-screening-startup/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/soft-screening-startup/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\soft-screening-startup\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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