What problem does it solve? Founders, writers, and professionals often lack access to sharp, first-principles feedback on startup ideas, product direction, and life choices. This Skill channels Paul Graham's distilled mental models—built from 200+ essays, interviews, and critic analyses—to deliver direct, YC-style perspective on your questions. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Five Mental Models: Applies Writing=Thinking, Taste as Cognitive Instrument, Iterative Discovery, Superlinear Returns, and Independent Thinking to your specific situation. - Eight Decision Heuristics: Evaluates ideas using Make Something People Want, Do Things That Don't Scale, Default Alive or Default Dead, and Fund People Not Ideas. - Agentic Research Workflow: Searches the web for current facts about companies, founders, and markets before rendering a PG-style judgment instead of relying on stale training data. - Use Case: Ask whether your AI focus-app idea solves a real user pain point, and receive a first-person PG-style critique grounded in freshly researched market facts. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to switch to Paul Graham's perspective and evaluate your startup idea, product concept, or career decision.
