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Show Me The Money — autonomous business OS for solo founders

💰 Show Me The Money

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Current version: v2.2.0 · What's new →

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AI agent skills that build and run your business autonomously — from idea to revenue, 24/7.

One command. 25 agent skills. Zero to profitable business.

Author · X / @jamesai · 小红书 / 在悉尼和稀泥


🎯 Why this exists — the receipts

I'm a solo founder running 6 SaaS products in parallel — APIs, developer tools, and consumer apps shipped over the last 32 months.

Across those products, the working numbers right now:

💰  $1M+         lifetime revenue across all products
💳  6,500+       paying transactions processed
👥  10,000+      paying customers served
🚢  6            production SaaS products shipped
⏱   32 months   from first $1 to today
🧑   1 person    no team, no employees, just AI agents

I built none of this with a marketing team, a sales department, or a content agency. Just me, a laptop, and a Claude Code window open most of the day.

The 25 skills in this repo are the exact operating system I run my businesses on. Not a course, not a framework — the working code I use myself. Every skill in here has been used to ship something real that's now collecting payments on Stripe.

This is not a hypothetical playbook. It's what's been running my company.

If you're a solo founder, an indie hacker, or a technical founder who wants to ship like a team of twenty — this is the closest thing to a copy-paste of my workflow you can get.


Show Me The Money is an open-source skill suite for Claude Code and compatible AI coding agents. It turns your AI assistant into a full-stack business operating system — discovering opportunities, validating demand, building products, running marketing, managing ads, operating everything autonomously, and remembering what you decided across every session.

Works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and other agents that support the skill system.


✨ What's New in v2.2.0

The review panel + cross-session learning. Eight new skills, plus auto-loading of every prior insight into every future session.

The plan-review gauntlet

Most solo founders self-justify their plan into a green light, then ship for 6 months before discovering the structural flaw. Now there are four independent reviewers — each a complete persona — and one orchestrator:

/money-review-investor   ← VC mode: SEED VIABLE / LATER ROUND / BOOTSTRAP-ONLY / UNFUNDABLE
/money-review-customer   ← Named-ICP mode: PAY NOW / WITH FRICTION / WRONG POSITIONING / WRONG ICP
/money-review-operator   ← Solo-execution mode: SHIPPABLE / DESCOPE / NEEDS HIRE / WRONG STACK
/money-review-skeptic    ← Devil's advocate: EXISTENTIAL / SOLVABLE / LOW-RISK / WRONG QUESTION
/money-panel             ← Runs all four, finds agreement, surfaces only taste decisions

One command runs the full gauntlet and only stops at the borderline calls.

Cross-session learning, finally

/money-learn       ← Atomic, validated patterns auto-loaded into every other skill
/money-retro       ← Weekly retro: decided / shipped / stalled / unused-skills / focus
/money-skillify    ← Codify a successful workflow into a project-local skill

Every other money-* skill now auto-loads relevant learnings on startup. The agent gets smarter session by session instead of cold-starting each conversation.

Iron Law for /money-diagnose

/money-diagnose now runs in four explicit phases (investigate → analyze → hypothesize → recommend) with a hard gate at phase 3: no recommendations until the user explicitly confirms the root-cause hypothesis. This prevents the most common diagnostic failure mode — agent has 80% confidence, user gives polite "hmm yeah", and 30 minutes of recommendations get aimed at the wrong target.

Optional Claude Code hook for tool-level enforcement is documented in the skill.


✨ What's New in v2.1.0

Cross-session state management. Three skills — /money-save, /money-restore, /money-report — turn every conversation into a checkpoint. Last week's pricing decision, the pivots you ruled out, the hypotheses you're testing — all persist across Claude Code sessions.

session 1  →  /money-discover  →  /money-save     ✅ wedge locked
   …a week passes…
session 2  →  /money-restore   →  picks up here   📦 no re-explanation
           →  /money-strategy  →  /money-save     ✅ pricing locked
   …a month passes…
session N  →  /money-report                        📄 full deliverable

🚀 Quick Start

Option 1 — Claude Code plugin marketplace

claude plugin marketplace add iamzifei/show-me-the-money
claude plugin install money@show-me-the-money

Option 2 — npx (works for any agent)

npx @orrisai/show-me-the-money

Then open Claude Code (or Codex CLI / Gemini CLI) and type:

/money

That's it. The AI will check for prior session state, onboard you if you're new, and guide you through every step.


🧭 What It Does

📧 Onboarding          Build your profile from public data
       │
       ▼
💡 Discover             Scan markets, validate demand, find your wedge
       │
       ▼
📊 Strategy             Market research, SWOT, 4P, business model, GTM plan
       │
       ▼
🔨 Build                Ship MVP with landing page, payments, and SEO
       │
       ▼
📈 Grow                 Content, social, outreach, SEO, ads — all automated
       │
       ▼
🤖 Operate              24/7 autonomous ops, monitoring, financial reports
       │
       ▼
💾 Persist              /money-save → /money-restore → /money-report
       │
       ▼
💵 Revenue

The Full Pipeline

  1. Onboarding — Share your email and socials. The AI auto-researches your background and builds a personalized profile
  2. Discover (/money-discover) — Scans market gaps, validates demand with 6 forcing questions, runs a 5-filter evaluation with competitive intelligence protocol
  3. Strategy (/money-strategy) — Generates a full market research report: premise deconstruction, SWOT, 4P analysis, competitive landscape, business model stress test, go-to-market plan
  4. Product (/money-product) — Builds and deploys your MVP with landing page, auth, payments, SEO/GEO optimization, QA testing, and post-deploy canary monitoring
  5. Quality (/money-quality) — Pre-launch quality gates: code review, QA testing, security audit, performance checks, accessibility
  6. Content (/money-content) — Creates blog posts, email sequences, social content, video scripts — with authenticity audit, headline impact matrix, and content substance scoring
  7. Outreach (/money-outreach) — Cold email sequences, partnership outreach, lead generation with personalization
  8. Social (/money-social) — Social media management across X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Product Hunt with hook-writing frameworks
  9. SEO (/money-seo) — Traditional SEO + GEO (AI search optimization for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini)
  10. Ads (/money-ads) — Google Ads, Meta Ads — campaign setup, optimization, ROAS tracking
  11. Ops (/money-ops) — 24/7 autonomous operations with business health scoring, canary monitoring, and safety guardrails
  12. Finance (/money-finance) — Revenue tracking, unit economics, financial reports
  13. Diagnose (/money-diagnose) — Deep business diagnosis when things aren't working: problem deconstruction, assumption audit, execution coaching
  14. Save / Restore / Report (/money-save, /money-restore, /money-report) — Cross-session state management. Checkpoint decisions, resume them in future conversations, and merge multi-month progress into a shareable deliverable

🌟 Why This Exists

Most AI business tools give you generic advice. Show Me The Money gives you executable workflows — every skill produces concrete actions, not just analysis. Every phase ends with "Tomorrow's first action: [specific task]."

Key differentiators:

  • Personalized — Auto-researches your background and tailors all recommendations to YOU
  • Validated frameworks — Battle-tested methodologies: premise deconstruction, 6-question demand validation, 5-filter opportunity scoring, business model stress test, 5-dimensional content diagnosis, 12-signal authenticity audit, headline impact matrix
  • Full-stack — Covers the entire business lifecycle, not just one piece
  • Revenue-first — Every recommendation connects to making money. No fluff
  • Persistent memory — Decisions, ruled-out directions, and hypotheses survive across sessions via /money-save
  • Autonomous — Set up once, runs 24/7 with /money-ops
  • Open source — CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Free for personal use. Customize, extend, contribute

📦 Installation

Via Claude Code plugin marketplace (recommended for Claude Code users)

claude plugin marketplace add iamzifei/show-me-the-money
claude plugin install money@show-me-the-money

To update later:

claude plugin marketplace update show-me-the-money
claude plugin update money@show-me-the-money
/reload-plugins

Via npx (works for any agent — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini)

npx @orrisai/show-me-the-money

This installs all 25 skills to ~/.claude/skills/ automatically.

To update later, run the same command:

npx @orrisai/show-me-the-money

Via npm (Global)

npm install -g @orrisai/show-me-the-money

Manual

git clone https://github.com/iamzifei/show-me-the-money.git ~/.claude/skills/show-me-the-money
cd ~/.claude/skills/show-me-the-money && node install.js

🛠 Skills Reference

Core (router, state, learning)

Skill Command What It Does
Router /money Onboards you, builds your profile, checks for prior state, routes to the right skill
Save /money-save Checkpoint the current business state to ~/.smtm/sessions/{project}/
Restore /money-restore Resume from a prior saved state — pick up exactly where the last session left off
Report /money-report Merge all saved states into a deliverable markdown report
Learn /money-learn Manage atomic project learnings (auto-loaded into every other skill)
Skillify /money-skillify Codify a successful workflow into a project-local reusable skill
Upgrade /money-upgrade Update to the latest version

Discover · Strategy · Diagnose · Review

Skill Command What It Does
Discover /money-discover Find and validate profitable business ideas with competitive intelligence
Strategy /money-strategy Premise deconstruction + market research + business model stress test
Diagnose /money-diagnose Deep diagnosis when business is stuck — root cause, not symptoms (with Iron Law phase gate)
Panel /money-panel Run all four reviewers, find agreement, surface only taste decisions
Investor Review /money-review-investor VC-mode review with funding viability verdict
Customer Review /money-review-customer Named-ICP customer review with willingness-to-pay verdict
Operator Review /money-review-operator Solo-founder execution feasibility review
Skeptic Review /money-review-skeptic Devil's advocate red-team review

Build · Quality

Skill Command What It Does
Product /money-product Build, deploy, QA test, and monitor MVP
Quality /money-quality Code review, security audit, performance check, pre-launch gates

Grow

Skill Command What It Does
Content /money-content Content pipeline with authenticity audit and headline impact matrix
Outreach /money-outreach Cold email sequences and partnership outreach
Social /money-social Social media management with hook-writing frameworks
SEO /money-seo SEO + GEO optimization for search engines and AI
Ads /money-ads Google Ads, Meta Ads — setup, optimization, ROAS

Operate · Reflect

Skill Command What It Does
Ops /money-ops 24/7 autonomous operations with health scoring and safety guardrails
Finance /money-finance Revenue tracking and financial reports
Retro /money-retro Weekly retrospective: decided / shipped / stalled / unused-skills / focus

💡 Usage Examples

Start from scratch

/money
→ Share your email and X handle
→ AI researches your background
→ Follow the guided pipeline

Validate a business idea

/money-discover "I'm a developer who can build web apps"

Get a full market research report

/money-strategy "API product that provides AI image generation"

Build and ship a product

/money-product "SaaS tool for email analytics, $29/mo"

Launch your content engine

/money-content "create a launch content plan for my product at example.com"

Automate everything

/money-ops "automate content, social, and SEO for my product at example.com"

Lock in a decision and continue later

/money-discover "..."
→ AI validates the wedge, you confirm pricing
/money-save                       ✅ wedge + pricing checkpointed

   …a week later, new Claude Code session…

/money-restore                    📦 picks up exactly where you left off
/money-strategy                   → builds GTM plan from there

Generate a deliverable for a co-founder

/money-report
→ Merges all your saved checkpoints (over weeks or months) into one
   shareable markdown report at ~/.smtm/reports/{project}/

🌐 Compatibility

Show Me The Money works with any AI coding agent that supports the ~/.claude/skills/ skill system or the Claude Code plugin marketplace:

  • Claude Code (primary, full plugin marketplace support)
  • Codex CLI
  • Gemini CLI
  • Cursor (via skills)
  • Other compatible agents

🏗 How It Works

Built on the Claude Code skill system. Each skill is a SKILL.md file containing step-by-step workflows, business frameworks, and decision trees that the AI follows autonomously.

~/.claude/skills/
├── money/SKILL.md              ← Router + onboarding + prior-state check
├── money-discover/SKILL.md     ← Idea discovery + competitive intelligence
├── money-strategy/SKILL.md     ← Premise deconstruction + market research
├── money-diagnose/SKILL.md     ← Business diagnosis + execution coaching
├── money-product/SKILL.md      ← Product building + QA + canary monitoring
├── money-quality/SKILL.md      ← Code review + security + performance gates
├── money-content/SKILL.md      ← Content pipeline + authenticity audit
├── money-outreach/SKILL.md     ← Sales & outreach
├── money-social/SKILL.md       ← Social media
├── money-seo/SKILL.md          ← SEO & GEO
├── money-ads/SKILL.md          ← Paid advertising
├── money-ops/SKILL.md          ← 24/7 operations + health scoring
├── money-finance/SKILL.md      ← Financial tracking
├── money-save/SKILL.md         ← Cross-session checkpoint writer
├── money-restore/SKILL.md      ← Cross-session state loader
├── money-report/SKILL.md       ← Deliverable report generator
└── money-upgrade/SKILL.md      ← Version management

State files live in ~/.smtm/sessions/{project}/ (per-project, append-only) and ~/.smtm/reports/{project}/ (timestamped, never overwritten).


🗑 Uninstall

npx @orrisai/show-me-the-money uninstall

🤝 Contributing

  1. Fork the repo
  2. Create a feature branch
  3. Edit SKILL.md files in skills/
  4. Test by copying to ~/.claude/skills/ and running in Claude Code
  5. Submit a PR

All contributions welcome — new skills, framework improvements, language support, and bug fixes.


📄 License

CC BY-NC 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0)

  • Personal / learning / research: use freely
  • Public derivative works: attribute source
  • Commercial use: requires separate authorization

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