// loading_skills... 300+ case studies verified

Build Your
Dream Team

Don't split your equity with people you can't trust. Build an AI co-founding team trained on the decisions of legendary builders.

$ goated install --team "founder-stack"

300+
Verified Case Studies
48
Decision Patterns
7-Point
Security Audit
100%
Local & Private

The Founder's Dilemma

You need a world-class team. You can't afford one. And the wrong co-founder will kill your company faster than no co-founder.

Splitting Equity

  • Co-founder drama kills 65% of startups
  • A bad CTO costs $300K+ and 12 months
  • Advisors give generic advice for 1% equity
  • Hiring before PMF burns runway
  • Generic AI tools give generic answers

GOATED Dream Team

  • CTO that thinks like Wozniak for $29
  • Strategy advisor trained on Musk's decisions
  • No equity, no drama, no politics
  • Runs locally. Your ideas stay yours.
  • Verified decisions, not motivational fluff

See the Difference

Same question. Same AI. One has a GOATED skill loaded. One doesn't.

FOUNDER ASKS: "I'm building a SaaS. Should I build my own auth system or use Auth0/Clerk?"
WITHOUT GOATED

AI: There are pros and cons to both approaches. Building your own gives you more control and customization, while using Auth0/Clerk saves development time.

Pros of building: Full control, no vendor lock-in, customizable.

Pros of Auth0: Faster to implement, handles edge cases, SOC2 compliant.

It depends on your specific needs, timeline, and resources. Both are valid choices.

VERDICT: It depends.

WITH MUSK DECISION ENGINE

> Loading Musk Decision Engine...

> Pattern: First Principles Cost Destruction

> Reference: CS-013 Tesla Direct Sales

AI: Use Clerk. Don't build auth. Here's why:

Idiot Index: Auth costs ~$0.02/user/mo on Clerk. Building your own = 3-6 weeks of eng time ($15K-30K opportunity cost) for something that is NOT your core product.

Musk's Step 1 — DELETE: Auth is not your product. It doesn't serve your mission. Delete it from your build scope entirely. (Ref: Musk deleted 90% of Twitter's auth middleware — same principle.)

When to revisit: Only build custom auth when you hit 100K+ users AND auth becomes a competitive differentiator (like Stripe did with Connect). Until then, it's a commodity.

VERDICT: Use Clerk. Ship your product this week instead of next month.

Case Study: We Scored Ourselves

We ran the GOATED Meter on GOATED itself. Here's the raw score.

78/100
PURSUE
First Principles Musk
12/15
Timing — Why Now? a16z
17/20
Moat Potential Buffett
14/20
Disruption Wood
12/15
Product Clarity Jobs
13/15
Platform Potential Gates
10/15
Why Now? (17/20) — ClawHub malware crisis destroyed trust. AI skills market exploding (356K views on self-improvement alone). No trusted, curated marketplace exists. The window is open.
Product Clarity (13/15) — "Build your AI dream team trained on legends." One sentence. Obvious value. Jobs would approve.
Weakest: Platform (10/15) — Currently a product, not yet a platform. Marketplace + community features needed to unlock platform network effects. That's the roadmap.

Dream Teams

Pre-built teams of legendary thinkers. Plug in a department.

The CTO Office
$69
// ENGINEERING + ARCHITECTURE + PERFORMANCE — 75 case studies
A complete engineering leadership team. 3 legendary CTOs, 75 verified case studies. System design, simplicity, and performance.
Steve Wozniak — Apple Co-Founder Werner Vogels — Amazon CTO, AWS John Carmack — Doom, Oculus VR

Individual Team Members

Build your own custom team. Each skill is a decision engine trained on 25+ verified decisions.

Musk Decision Engine
$49
Elon Musk — Tesla, SpaceX, xAI
First Principles Cost Destruction, 5-Step Process, Wright's Law. 25 verified decisions from SpaceX, Tesla, X.
1 legend 25 case studies 8 patterns
Self-Improvement Engine
$49
Kobe Bryant (NBA) + Elon Musk (Tesla) + James Clear (Atomic Habits) + Ray Dalio (Bridgewater)
Film study method, 5-Step iteration, Atomic Habits, Radical Transparency. Compound capability over time.
4 legends 100 case studies 10 patterns
Knowledge Architect
$49
Charlie Munger (Berkshire Hathaway) + Ray Dalio (Bridgewater) + Tiago Forte (Second Brain) + Niklas Luhmann (Zettelkasten)
Mental Models Lattice, Principles Database, PARA method, Zettelkasten. Knowledge compounds like capital.
4 legends 100 case studies 10 patterns
The Woz
$29
Steve Wozniak — Apple Co-Founder
Engineering simplicity. Fewer parts, better design. Every chip saved is a design win.
1 legend 25 case studies 9 patterns
Cloud Architect
$49
Werner Vogels — Amazon CTO, Architect of AWS
Distributed systems from the architect of AWS. Design for failure. You build it, you run it.
1 legend 25 case studies 10 patterns
The Optimizer
$29
John Carmack — Creator of Doom & Quake, Oculus VR CTO
Performance engineering from the creator of Doom. Profile before optimize. Data-oriented design.
1 legend 25 case studies 10 patterns

Free Tools

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GOAT Security Scanner

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7-point security audit for any AI skill. Built because 1,184 malicious skills were found on ClawHub.

  • Command execution detection
  • Prompt injection scanning
  • Data exfiltration patterns
  • Score 0-100 with detailed report
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GOATED Meter

FREE — AVAILABLE NOW

Score your startup idea from 0 to 100. Six legendary frameworks: Musk, a16z, Buffett, Wood, Jobs, Gates.

  • Timing analysis (a16z "Why Now?")
  • Moat scoring (Buffett's 5 moats)
  • First principles feasibility (Musk)
  • PURSUE / PIVOT / PASS verdict
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// your prompts are never stored. your ideas stay local. we don't see them.

How It Works

1

Pick Your Team

Choose a Dream Team or build your own from individual skills.

2

Install

One command. Skills load into your AI agent locally.

3

Decide Like a Legend

Ask real questions. Get decisions backed by what legends actually did.

# Install your dream team
git clone https://github.com/vang0at/goated-skills.git
cp -r goated-skills/skills/goat-security-scanner .claude/skills/

# Your agent now thinks like a legend
"Should I build this feature or buy a solution?"
# > Applying Musk Decision Engine...
# > Pattern: First Principles Cost Destruction
# > Reference: CS-013 Tesla Direct Sales

Every Skill Passes Our 7-Point Audit

[+] No command execution patterns
[+] No prompt injection vectors
[+] No data exfiltration patterns
[+] No file system access outside scope
[+] No network calls to unknown endpoints
[+] No obfuscated or encoded instructions
[+] No social engineering language

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