startup-business-models SKILL.md skillA

startup-business-models from maxmiksa/auto-company is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add maxmiksa/auto-company/startup-business-models@git:20260918.6efeab7

Pins git:20260918.6efeab7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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SKILL.md skill
Repository
maxmiksa/auto-company
Path
.claude/skills/startup-business-models/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260918.6efeab7, committed Sep 18, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 26, 2025
Size
7,508 bytes
Repository stars
3,191
License
MIT

Use when choosing or evaluating a startup revenue model, pricing/value metric, packaging/tier design, or calculating unit economics (LTV, CAC, payback, gross margin, NRR), including usage-based/credit/AI pricing and variable compute/COGS constraints.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Startup Business Models

Systematic workflow for choosing revenue models, pricing, and unit economics.

## Quick Start (Inputs)

Ask for the smallest set of inputs that makes the decision meaningful:

- Business type: SaaS, usage-based/API, marketplace, services, hardware + service
- ICP/segment(s): SMB / mid-market / enterprise (and ACV/ARPA bands)
- Current pricing and packaging: value metric, tiers, limits, discount policy, billing cadence
- Unit economics drivers: fully-loaded CAC, gross margin/COGS (include LLM/infra/third-party), churn/retention, expansion (NRR)
- Constraints: sales motion (PLG vs sales-led), implementation constraints (billing metering, proration), gross margin floor, payback target

If numbers are missing, proceed with ranges + explicit assumptions and highlight what to measure next.

## Workflow

1) Classify the model
- Subscription, usage-based, freemium, marketplace take-rate, transaction fee, ads, outcome-based, credit-based, hybrid.

2) Build a segment-level unit economics snapshot
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add maxmiksa/auto-company/startup-business-models@sha256:e19081ff392d3131

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260918.6efeab7, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7508 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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Source

GitHub

maxmiksa/auto-company · 3,191 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4a2s5glgfcs2vjh3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=maxmiksa/auto-company/startup-business-models
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e19081ff392d31316658e9fb228385f3524e06084b8fb431c5a83848d81079b3

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