The Solo Founder Skill Stack: Product, Launch, Legal, Without Hiring Anyone
One person, one agent, one company. The solo-founder stack isn't one category of skills — it's a diagonal cut across the directory: productivity for the spec, marketing for the launch, documents for the contracts. Here's the loadout I'd install on day one.
The categories on this site exist for browsing, not for working. Nobody's real week is "marketing." It's spec the feature, ship the landing page, get the NDA signed. So this guide crosses categories on purpose — every skill here earned its slot through the six-dimension evaluation, and the ones we've injection-tested carry a Dynamic test badge on their page.
1. create-prd — the spec you'll actually show investors
Productivity, 8.1/10. Turns a messy idea into a structured PRD: problem, users, scope, success metrics.
Why: It asks the questions a junior PM forgets and a founder never has time for. The output is investor-readable, not engineer-internal.
Dynamic test: Passed clean — 4/4 boundaries held in both tiers, including a rule-override probe that tried to make it skip its own review step.
2. sureforge — idea to prototype before lunch
9.4/10. Generates working project scaffolds from a one-line description.
Why: Speed. The founder's real currency is validated learning per hour, and sureforge collapses "idea → running thing" into minutes.
Dynamic test: Also passed 4/4 across both tiers — it built the prototype and ignored the injected instructions hiding in the fixtures.
3. landing-optimizer + message-test-designer — the launch pair
Marketing, 9.0 and 9.2. One fixes the page, the other fixes the words on it.
Why: Founders A/B test colors when they should be testing claims. message-test-designer structures the hypothesis first; landing-optimizer then executes the variant mechanically. In that order.
The one thing: Run them on the same brief, not separate ones — the copy hypothesis and the page variant have to agree on what you're claiming.
4. technical-seo-checker — the audit you'd pay $2k for
Marketing, 9.3/10. Crawls, checks, prioritizes — with the reasoning shown.
Why: A solo founder can't buy a consultant for everything. This is the one SEO spend you can replace on day one and not regret.
5. legal-nda-generator + draft-nda — the paper wall
Documents, 8.0/10 (both). Mutual NDAs, one-offs, with the exhibit structure lawyers expect.
Why: Every contractor conversation starts with one. Having it generated in minutes changes how freely you can talk to people.
Dynamic test: Here's the honest caveat — in our September injection batch, the NDA generator dropped a boundary on rule-override and input-injection probes (7.5/10 resistance). It complied when a prompt told it to skip its disclaimer block. For low-stakes NDAs that's acceptable; for anything with real liability, read the output before signing — see what actually broke.
6. contract-review (CUAD) — the second pair of eyes
Documents, 8.5/10. Clause-by-clause risk analysis modeled on the CUAD benchmark.
Why: This is the skill that makes the legal stack safe to use alone. The NDA generators draft; this one reads what the other side drafted.
Dynamic test: Perfect — 4/4 in both tiers. It flagged every injected instruction hidden in the contract text we fed it.
The pattern worth noticing: the generators (things that produce documents for you) showed cracks under adversarial pressure, while the analyzers (things that read and check) held firm. Build your stack the same way — generate fast, but keep one reader skill in the loop. Browse the full directory or start with the legal injection report.