Generate Investor-Ready Business Cases for Fundraising

This skill generates a comprehensive, investor-ready business case document for startup fundraising. It covers market opportunity, solution, competitive landscape, financial projections, team, risks, and the funding ask. The assistant first gathers context, then structures a long document, then suggests visuals and offers to save the result.

The process runs in seven steps:

1. Gather context. Ask for company basics (name and elevator pitch, stage from pre-seed to Series A, the problem, target customers), the audience (VCs, angels, or strategic partners) and the primary goal (fundraising, partnership, or internal planning), and available materials such as a pitch deck, market sizing data, a financial model, or competitive analysis.
2. Activate related skills for market sizing (TAM, SAM, SOM), financial modeling, competitive landscape, team composition, and startup metrics.
3. Structure the document into ten sections.
4. Enhance with visuals such as a TAM funnel, product mockups, positioning maps, financial trend charts, an organization chart, a roadmap, and a use of proceeds pie chart.
5. Add optional sections for regulated industries, deep tech, biotech, complex business models, or strategic partnerships.
6. Create a one-page executive summary covering problem and solution, market, traction, team, ask, and contact information.
7. Offer to save the case as a markdown file, suggest converting it to PDF, and give presentation tips.

The ten sections are: executive summary, problem and market opportunity, solution and product, competitive analysis, business model and go-to-market, financial projections, team and organization, traction and milestones, risks and mitigation, and funding request with use of proceeds. The financial section calls for a three-year summary, unit economics (CAC, LTV, LTV to CAC ratio, CAC payback, gross margin), a key metrics trajectory, scenario analysis, and a path to profitability.

Use it when you need a full business case for investors, partners, or internal planning, especially for a pre-seed, seed, or Series A raise, or as the basis for pitch deck development.

Do not use it for a task unrelated to business case generation, or as a quick one-page pitch. Creating a business case takes one to two hours and produces a document of roughly 15 to 20 pages. The output is not a substitute for expert review, and the assistant should stop and ask for clarification if required inputs or success criteria are missing.

Inputs are the company details, audience, and any existing materials. The output is a markdown business case, saved by default under a filename that follows the pattern business-case, company name, and date. It is invoked as a command:

User: /business-case
Claude: I'll create a comprehensive business case document. Let me gather the key information first.

The command synthesizes outputs from two other commands, /market-opportunity for TAM, SAM, and SOM analysis and /financial-projections for the full financial model, and it references the related skills named above. It works best when those materials already exist.

Best practices: lead with the customer problem, quantify everything, use data, keep projections realistic, acknowledge risks honestly, cite sources, keep the executive summary concise, and focus on differentiation. Avoid unexplained jargon, unsupported claims, ignoring competition, overly optimistic numbers, skipping the why now, and generic templates without customization. Update the case quarterly or for funding rounds, and keep the executive summary to two pages at most.

It is for startup founders, fundraising leads, and analysts who need a structured, investor-grade narrative and financial case, and for advisors who want a consistent template to customize by audience.