The Free Founder Stack.Everything we can give away.
A founder without money or a network should get the same playbook as one with both. So we give almost everything away: the tools, the skills, the guides, the course and the intros.
Where are youright now?
- Run the free Idea Pressure Test
- Read Validate your idea in 7 days
- Install the validation skills
- Read Get your first 10 customers
- Install the sales and marketing skills
- Claim your startup credits
- Get your Raise Readiness Score (2 min)
- Follow the raise guides, deck to term sheet
- Check your deck with the free Deck Check
- Read The first 30 days after you close
- Check your ownership with the SAFE calculator
- See the funded-founder stack
All of it,free
The AI tools we built, free to use
- Investor ExamThe 6 questions every investor asks, scored
- Pitch Deck CheckSee which slides investors will question
- Pitch Deck GeneratorA first draft of your deck from your answers
- Idea Pressure TestA skeptical investor's view of your idea
2 starter skills
raise-profileOne facts file every skill readsone-liner10 one-liners and your 30-second pitchThe Raise Templates
Investor CRM for Google Sheets, data room folders, monthly update, outreach emails, one-pager, 12-week plan, use of funds and meeting notes.
What will you own after the round?
Add your SAFEs and next round. See your ownership at every step, including the option-pool top-up.
Open the SAFE calculatorThe Raise-Ready Workshop
One live hour with Daniel every month. Open to everyone.
Next date announced by emailSave my seatThe best Claude skills, by goal
Hand-picked, checked on GitHub, with costs and warnings on every card.
Open the libraryEvery step, written down
- 01Set up Claude
- 02Validate your idea
- 03First 10 customers
- 04Pitch deck
- 05Financial model
- 06Data room
- 07Investor list
- 08Investor meetings
- 09Run the raise
- 10SAFEs and term sheets
- 11After the raise
Make Claude work like a team
Projects, connectors, Research, your own skills, Claude Code and automations. Then your own agents: OpenClaw, Hermes, an inbox and a server for them, MCP and the Agent SDK.
The free Raise Course
Ten short lessons, one a day, with the template for each. The video version is coming.
Start the free courseVerified repos and connectors for investor research, decks, models, data rooms and pitch practice.
Open the vaultStartup credits and discounts from tools you'll use anyway, sorted so bootstrapped founders claim first.
Claim perksThe honest DIY plan
Rebuild most of StartWise with Claude and open source. Every tool, the hours it takes and what it really costs, checked on vendor pages.
See the plan and calculatorDaniel's investor network is open
If he believes in the team and the product and there's traction, he'll introduce you to investors he knows. Free, always. Intros are never sold.
Ask for a free intro reviewHow thisstays free
The Raise Skill Pack ($27) and StartWise do this work for you. Everything on this page works without them.
A few perks and tools are affiliate links. It never changes your price, and we only list what we'd use ourselves.
Then this page is enough to raise. That's the whole point. Use it, and tell another founder.
The score, the vault and the guides in the right order, plus new tools when they come out.
Not sure where to start?Get your score in 2 minutes.
Nine quick taps. You get your three biggest gaps and the free tools that fix each one.
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