investor-update SKILL.md skillA
investor-update from qa-aman/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add qa-aman/claude-skills/investor-update@git:20260303.8412b01Pins git:20260303.8412b01 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- qa-aman/claude-skills
- Path
skills/by-role/founder/investor-update/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260303.8412b01, committed Mar 3, 2026
- Size
- 5,782 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- MIT
Use when the user says "write my investor update", "monthly update for investors", "quarterly investor email", "investor communication", "LP update", "board update", "shareholder update", "what do I tell my investors this month", "how do I write a good investor update", or wants to communicate progress, metrics, and needs to existing investors or board members on a recurring basis.
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
## Overview Based on **"The Hard Thing About Hard Things"** by Ben Horowitz. The core principle: the CEO's job is to manage the truth - not spin it, not hide it, and not dump it unfiltered. Investor updates are trust infrastructure. Horowitz argues that great CEOs communicate bad news faster than good news, ask for help specifically, and never let investors be surprised. An update that only reports wins trains investors to distrust you the moment things go wrong. ## Workflow ### Step 1: Pull the numbers before writing a word Collect the following before drafting: Metrics section (include all that apply to [your startup]): - MRR or ARR and month-over-month change (absolute and percentage) - New customers added and churned this period - Burn rate and runway (months remaining at current burn) - Cash in bank - Key product metrics (DAU, activation rate, NPS, or whatever your north star is) - Pipeline (if B2B): qualified deals, average deal size, sales cycle length Do not estimate. If a number is not ready, note it explicitly and send the update anyway. "We are still closing the books on MRR - will send an addendum Friday" is better than delaying the whole update. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add qa-aman/claude-skills/investor-update@sha256:a6ae34dd9683480bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260303.8412b01, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_eqddb52iphxlqrbg)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 3, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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Source
qa-aman/claude-skills · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_eqddb52iphxlqrbg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=qa-aman/claude-skills/investor-update GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a6ae34dd9683480b92f208cc50f3df34fa057ba4ff6add77648346d4143c1834
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