architect-for-startups

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps startup teams avoid over-engineered AWS architectures by providing stage-aware guidance that balances speed, cost, team capacity, credits, and future scalability.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Startup-Stage Architecture Guidance: Recommends AWS services and infrastructure patterns based on startup stage, engineering team size, runway, and growth expectations.
• Cost and Credits Optimization: Evaluates AWS spending risks, credit usage strategies, and post-credits sustainability to prevent unexpected infrastructure costs.
• Architecture Planning and Reviews: Provides guidance for compute, databases, AI workloads, networking, security, migrations, infrastructure as code, and investor readiness.
• Use Case: A seed-stage company planning an AI SaaS product can use this Skill to choose between Lambda, ECS, databases, and Bedrock patterns while avoiding unnecessary enterprise complexity.

Quick Start

Ask the architect-for-startups skill to design an AWS architecture for my startup based on my stage, team size, budget, credits, and product requirements.