pitch-memo SKILL.md skillA
pitch-memo from kalyvask/winning-writing is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/pitch-memo@git:20260522.bafc1e5Pins git:20260522.bafc1e5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kalyvask/winning-writing
- Path
skills/pitch-memo/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260522.bafc1e5, committed May 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 1, 2026
- Size
- 9,042 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Drafts and critiques a text-first investor pitch memo for pre-seed and seed founders, structured around the 15 questions every investor asks. Use as an alternative or complement to a pitch deck — memos are faster to iterate, harder to hide weak thinking inside, and serve as the script for walking through a deck in a meeting. Triggers on "pitch memo," "investment memo," "fundraise memo," "memo for investors," "pitch document," "alternative to deck," "memo not deck.".
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
# Pitch memo Source: Josh Constine's *Fundraising & Pitch Deck Guide* — specifically his 15-question memo template — plus Kramon's BLUF rule, Konrad's "tell me a secret about the future," and the existing `pitch-coach` framework. ## Why a memo (not a deck) For pre-seed and seed companies, a memo can outperform a deck: - **No design wrangling.** No fiddling with slide layouts or hiring a designer. - **Pretty design can hide weak thinking; a memo can't.** If the founder can't write the 15 answers cleanly, they're not ready to pitch. - **It's the deck script.** Even if you eventually build a deck, the memo is the narrative spine — write it first, design slides to support it, not the other way around. - **Decks leave investors with questions; memos answer them upfront.** Less follow-up email cycle. A memo replaces a deck for: pre-seed, founders who think in text more than imagery, and any raise where you're competing on *substance* over *presentation*. A memo complements a deck for everyone else. ## The 15 questions (Constine) Every investor asks the same 15 things. A memo that answers all of them in order is the most efficient possible pitch artifact. ### 1. Company name …
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How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/pitch-memo@sha256:a3bc05a63211485cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260522.bafc1e5, 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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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 1, 2026 and May 22, 2026, about one every 22 days.
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| git:20260522.bafc1e5 latest | 2026-05-22 | bafc1e5 | 9,042 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260501.d9b6dfb | 2026-05-01 | d9b6dfb | 8,981 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
kalyvask/winning-writing · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
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