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The Breakout Stack

Free Claude and ChatGPT skills for founders who've already found product-market fit — and are now building the company itself.

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As a founder, if decisions on your team still loop back to you, that's not a management failure

It's what happens once you're moving faster than the people around you.

You're juggling ten reasonable priorities. You already know the real problem isn't a shortage of ideas — it's not knowing which one actually matters this quarter.

Ask Claude or ChatGPT today, and it guesses — confidently

"What should my team focus on this quarter?" It hands you five reasonable ideas — a feature, retention, hiring, a new market. All defensible. All equally weighted. None of them the answer.

The model isn't wrong, exactly. It just doesn't have the actual pattern, so it guesses well. And a plausible-sounding guess, repeated every quarter, is how a company that's already working quietly stays mediocre — busy, but not compounding.

Run one skill instead, and it hands back one sentence

Describe your startup in plain language. It hands back the single constraint actually holding the quarter back — not a list.

The model didn't get smarter. It got the actual pattern instead of a guess. From there, it helps you turn that one constraint into a real priority, cascade it to your team, and hold the line against the next shiny distraction.

After growing three startups from 10 to 1,000 people in three years each, this is the pattern that broke the loop every time. It isn't new — I've run it with leadership teams for years. What's new is the packaging: it used to only fit in a room, with me in it. Now it's free skills you run yourself.

Built on a simple rhythm

Stuck: Something isn't moving the way it should, and it's not yet clear why.
Stock: Turn the vague feeling into a real diagnosis: the actual constraint, and the one move worth the quarter.
Stick: Cascade it into what your team does, without you re-explaining it every week.
Stack: Bank the win, start the next one. One real breakthrough is a good quarter, four in a row is a different company.

The practice, proven before it was a product

These are from the same practice, run in person with leadership teams over the years. The skills are the new part — nobody's tested this exact packaging yet. That's honest, and it's also why it's free.

"They don't try to address too many items which can overwhelm an organization, rather try to focus the team on what matters for them, and then move towards it."

An Bui

VP Supply Operations, NZXT

"The company is different than it was a year ago. I see better alignment quarter over quarter."

Sundip Patel

CEO & Co-Founder, Avana

"Helps teams remain focused and accountable, which leads to higher success rates of goal achievement."

Arthur Dang

VP of Culture & People, Sales&Orders

Install in under 2 minutes

Using Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor? Run this:

npx skills add midstage/breakout-stack --all

Using ChatGPT? Grab it from GitHub instead — copy a skill's contents into a Custom GPT's instructions, or paste it straight into a chat.

Not sure where you're stuck? Run find-your-blindspot first. Already know the rhythm? Start with start-here instead.

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