Release v1.9.0 - Validation-First Flow & Pitch Deck Outline · ferdinandobons/startup-skill

What's new

Pre-Flight Check (Phase 0.5) - a 5-minute sanity scan before intake: dominant incumbents, prior failures of similar ideas, regulatory blockers. Context, not a verdict.
Customer Discovery gate (Phase 3.7) - real customer interviews between the Research Gate and Strategy, with a full Mom Test-based protocol in the new references/customer-interview.md (who to interview, 25-30 min question structure, notes template, synthesis guide, go/no-go criteria). The gate is explicitly deferrable: the founder can continue on research data alone, with consequences stated plainly.
Two-stage financial model - every financial file declares its stage: Stage A (assumption-based, default) or Stage B (evidence-based, anchored to interview signals). Plus an assumption sensitivity table in projections.
Final Assessment Dashboard now shows Customer Interviews (count + confirmation rate) and Financial Stage.

New deliverable pitch-deck-outline.md - slide-by-slide deck structure (10-12 slides) derived from the full narrative: takeaway headlines (never labels), body bullets under 30 words, visual suggestions, speaker notes per slide, and a deck quality checklist.

Resume Check (Phase 0) added to startup-competitors, startup-positioning, and startup-pitch - interrupted sessions now resume from PROGRESS.md in every skill, not just startup-design.
Flow diagrams now correctly describe waves as sequential (agents within a wave run in parallel).
Reference tables fixed and updated with accurate line counts; tables of contents added to the large synthesis references.
startup-design SKILL.md restructured under the 500-line limit: intake questions moved to references/intake-questions.md, Strategy/Brand/Product/Validation file specs to references/output-specs.md.

Claude Code plugin:

claude plugin update startup@startup-skill

Claude.ai: download the .skill files below and upload in Settings -> Skills.