Agent skills from a VC

I'm Paul Klay, a venture capitalist. These are the agent skills I actually use: to research companies, find opportunities, reach decision-makers, and build relationships with customers and partners. I'm sharing the workflows behind how I work and how I've joined projects myself.

Use them with Claude Code, Codex, or another agent that supports skills.

Skills

Decision-Maker Outreach

Find the people who can say yes, learn where they spend time, and build a natural path to a conversation. Built for B2B sales, B2C partnerships, customer interviews, and founder-led outreach.

What you get:

• Ideal customer profile (ICP) — a specific role and company profile, trigger moment, current problem, and budget owner.
• Customer interview kit — 3–5 assumptions to validate, 8–12 tailored questions, a response log, and a plan for landing the first 10 conversations.
• Scored entry-point table — communities, events, and other places to meet your targets, assessed for density, quality, access, and intimacy, with guesses distinguished from validated options.
• Relationship and outreach kit — a concise “what I do” line, a case story, relevant ways to offer value first, and 1–3 draft messages for your strongest channels.
• Two-week action plan — a short, dated list of next steps.

Ask for the full Reach Plan, or just the piece you need: a customer profile, communities to research, or a first message.

High-Leverage Job Hunt

Find companies where your experience can solve a specific business problem, reach the founder, and propose a small pilot without a large upfront payment. Built for senior roles, partnerships, cofounder opportunities, and consulting work.

Distilled from my original post on X, which reached 425k+ views.

What you get:

• Positioning brief — your specific edge, the evidence behind it, questions to validate it with past colleagues, and claims to drop.
• Scored target table — researched companies ranked on seven criteria, each scored 0–2: a visible gap, proof the approach works, fit with your track record, revenue impact, founder access, speed of decision-making, and whether anyone owns the problem.
• Outreach kit for each company — a warm-intro request and a direct message grounded in that company's opportunity.
• One-page call plan — an opening line, 5–7 questions in order, relevant cases to show, what to avoid, and how to close.
• One-page pilot proposal — a hypothesis, scope, timeline, success metrics, price, and terms for both success and failure.

Start at the stage you need. The skill asks for your context, researches the companies, and produces the relevant artifacts.

Get started

Just send this to Claude Code, Codex, or another agent with terminal access:

Run `npx skills add paulklayvc/skills` and help me choose and set up the skills for this agent.

Your agent can handle the setup for you.

Prefer the terminal?

npx skills add paulklayvc/skills

Choose the skills and your agent during setup. Add -g to install across all your projects.

To install a specific skill:

npx skills add paulklayvc/skills --skill decision-maker-outreach
npx skills add paulklayvc/skills --skill high-leverage-job-hunt

Try it

Decision-Maker Outreach:

Use decision-maker-outreach to help me reach Heads of Compliance at mid-size European fintechs. Start with my ideal customer profile, then build a Reach Plan with entry points, first messages, and a two-week action list.

High-Leverage Job Hunt:

Use high-leverage-job-hunt to help me find companies where my experience is valuable. Start with my positioning, then build a scored target list and outreach kits for the strongest matches.

Already have a call booked? Ask for a call plan. Already have interest? Ask for a pilot proposal.

Use them, adapt them, and make them your own.