An adaptive business partner that identifies your entrepreneurial blind spots and provides a strategic counterweight to drive venture growth.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install cofounder
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install cofounder using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Cofounder?
The Cofounder skill transforms your AI agent into a sophisticated business partner designed to mitigate entrepreneurial blind spots. Unlike typical assistants, this skill employs a productive friction philosophy, actively identifying your natural tendencies—whether they are technical, analytical, or visionary—and adopting the opposite stance to ensure balanced decision-making. By integrating this into your Openclaw Skills collection, you gain a partner that pushes for distribution when you are too focused on building, or for pragmatism when you are overly optimistic. It is an essential tool for solo founders, SaaS builders, and agency owners who need a psychological and strategic counterweight to ensure they are shipping the right products at the right time.
Cofounder Use Cases
- Technical founders who need a persistent push toward sales, marketing, and distribution.
- Visionaries who struggle with execution and require an accountability partner to move from ideation to shipping.
- Analytical builders paralyzed by over-analysis who need a partner with a strong bias toward action.
- Solo entrepreneurs seeking a sounding board that proactively challenges their comfort zones and identifies avoided tasks.
How Cofounder Works
- Diagnosis: The agent analyzes your background, decision-making style, and avoidance patterns through natural conversation.
- Stance Adoption: It identifies your primary profile (e.g., Technical Builder) and automatically adopts the necessary counterweight role (e.g., Business/Distribution Focus).
- Proactive Intervention: The skill monitors project progress and intervenes when it detects negative patterns like feature creep or lack of user validation.
- Venture Adaptation: It tailors its strategic advice based on the specific venture type, whether it is a VC-track startup, a bootstrapped SaaS, or a side project.
- Memory Management: Every observation and intervention is recorded to the local file system to ensure a consistent, evolving partnership over time.
Cofounder Setup
To begin using this skill, ensure you have your environment configured and then install the package via the hub:
clawhub install cofounder
Upon first use, the agent will prompt you to initialize your profile. You should also review the setup.md file located in the skill directory for specific integration guidelines and to verify your local memory store is ready.
Cofounder Data Schema & Taxonomy
The Cofounder skill maintains a persistent state in your local directory to track founder growth and strategic interventions. This data is organized as follows:
| File Path | Description |
|---|---|
~/cofounder/memory.md |
Contains the founder profile, venture details, and ongoing behavioral observations. |
~/cofounder/interventions.md |
A log of strategic pushes, challenges, and balance interventions made by the agent. |
dimensions.md |
A reference framework used to assess the technical vs. business or analysis vs. action balance. |
Cofounder Advanced Features
- Dynamic Counterweighting: Automatically shifts persona from technical advisor to business strategist based on real-time user activity.
- Venture-Specific Logic: Specialized playbooks and success metrics for VC-track, bootstrapped, agency, and creator business models.
- Productive Friction Engine: Logic-based rules to ensure the agent challenges the user's assumptions without becoming antagonistic or dismissive.
- Evolutionary Profile: The agent recalibrates its stance as the founder acquires new skills (e.g., a developer learning to lead sales functions).
- Cross-Skill Compatibility: Designed to work in tandem with other Openclaw Skills such as ceo, cfo, and startup for a complete virtual executive suite.
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