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Founder thought leadership skill

Turn a founder's experience and notes into a point of view and a steady stream of long-form posts.

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Category
Content & copy
Works with
Claude, Codex, Cursor, any agent
Format
SKILL.md · 1,502 words
Version
v0.1.0
Price
Free · MIT

The Founder thought leadership skill file

cmo-thought-leadership/SKILL.md1,502 words · MIT
---
name: cmo-thought-leadership
description: Turn a founder's experience and notes into a point of view and a steady stream of long-form posts.
---

People follow founders for a clear point of view backed by things they actually did. This skill mines a founder's own material (notes, highlights, decisions, experiments, talks) for the positions they really hold, separates what they believe from what they merely read about, and turns the strongest positions into long-form posts in their own voice. Nothing is published as the founder's view until the founder confirms it.

When to use

  • A founder or executive wants to post regularly but stalls on "what to say".
  • There is a pile of notes, saved articles, memos or recorded talks that never became content.
  • The founder wants a long LinkedIn post or an article on X (formerly Twitter) on a decision, failure, system or contrarian view.

Not for: short, frequent LinkedIn posts (cmo-linkedin-posts) or running the CMO.so LinkedIn queue (cmo-linkedin); LinkedIn positioning and test plans (cmo-linkedin-strategy); profile optimisation (cmo-linkedin-profile); audience growth tactics on X (cmo-x-growth).

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Adapts open work by ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills (MIT).

Everyday usage

How people use Founder thought leadership day to day

Ask in plain words. The agent picks this skill, asks for anything it needs and hands back the result. Words in a highlight are yours to change.

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Founder thought leadership

A point-of-view map: 3-5 positions with evidence and what is safe to publish

Ask your agentGive our founder a point of view people remember
  • A point-of-view map: 3-5 positions with evidence and what is safe to publish
  • A voice sheet for the founder
  • Long-form posts ready to paste, plus a backlog of angles

More things to ask

  • Turn my notes into a thought leadership post
  • What should I be known for
  • Write a long-form post in my voice
  • I have opinions but don't know what to write
  • Build a founder content plan
  • Write an X article about how we did this
How it works

From input to output

  1. 1You give it
    • The founder's notes, highlights, bookmarks, memos, talks or voice memos (shared by the founder)
    • Two or three past posts or emails that sound like them
    • Real numbers, decisions and stories they are willing to share publicly
  2. 2It works through the method
    • Asks what's missing, one question at a time
    • Follows the workflow step by step
    • Checks the result against its quality bar and guardrails
  3. 3You get
    • A point-of-view map: 3-5 positions with evidence and what is safe to publish
    • A voice sheet for the founder
    • Long-form posts ready to paste, plus a backlog of angles
Why a skill

The skill against the alternatives

Do it yourselfHire helpFounder thought leadership skill
CostYour own timeAgency or freelancer feesFree, MIT licence
Time to a first resultHours, every timeDays to weeks, plus revisionsMinutes, in your agent
ConsistencyDepends on remembering every stepAs long as the retainer lastsSame steps and checks every run
The methodIn your headTheir process, often hiddenWritten down: read it, change it
Who does the workYou, from scratchSomeone learning your businessYour agent, following the skill
FAQ

Questions about the Founder thought leadership skill

What it does, what it needs and how to use it with your agent.

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What is the Founder thought leadership skill?

Turn a founder's experience and notes into a point of view and a steady stream of long-form posts.

It's one of cmo.so's open Content & copy skills: a SKILL.md file that tells an AI agent when to use it, what to ask you first, the steps to follow, the checks to pass and what to hand back, so the job is done the same careful way every time.

When should I use it?

Reach for it when you'd otherwise say something like “Give our founder a point of view people remember”, “Turn my notes into a thought leadership post”, “What should I be known for”. Your agent reads the skill's description and picks it for requests like these, so you don't need to name it.

If a request is close but not quite right, the skill says so and points to the related skill that fits better, instead of forcing a poor answer.

What do I need to give it?

It works best with the founder's notes, highlights, bookmarks, memos, talks or voice memos (shared by the founder); two or three past posts or emails that sound like them; and real numbers, decisions and stories they are willing to share publicly.

You don't have to prepare everything up front. The skill asks for missing pieces one at a time and says plainly when it's working from an assumption instead of your data.

What do I get back?

You get a point-of-view map: 3-5 positions with evidence and what is safe to publish; a voice sheet for the founder; and long-form posts ready to paste, plus a backlog of angles.

Every result comes from a written method with a quality bar, so numbers name their source, claims are checked and the output is ready to use or share rather than a rough draft.

Is it free?

Yes. The skill is open source under the MIT licence, so you can use it, change it and share it, including for client work.

Seeing, copying and downloading the whole file on cmo.so needs a free sign-in. Copying also upvotes and saves it, so you can find it again under Saved on the skills page.

Which AI agents can use it?

Claude Code installs it from the cmo.so marketplace. Any agent that reads SKILL.md folders, such as Codex or Cursor, can use it once the folder is in its skills directory.

You can also paste the copied skill into ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant at the start of a conversation and ask it to follow the skill.

How do I install it?

In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add AI-Marketing-OS-LTD/cmo-so-skills, then /plugin install cmo-so-content@cmo-so. That installs this skill together with the rest of the Content & copy group.

For other agents, sign in, press Copy or Download above and put the file in your agent's skills folder as SKILL.md inside a folder named after the skill.

Do I need a cmo.so account to use it?

No. The skill works on its own with whatever your agent can already see and do: your files, the pages you share and the data you paste in.

A free cmo.so account only matters if you also want Maggie to plan, write and publish your marketing every day.

Which skills work well with it?

It pairs well with LinkedIn post writing; and X (Twitter) growth. The agent can hand over from one to the next in the same conversation, for example research first, then the plan, then the writing.

Each of them has its own page with what it needs and what it returns, linked below.

Can I change it to fit my business?

Yes. It's a plain Markdown file, so you can edit the steps, add your own checks and examples, and keep your version in your own repo. The MIT licence allows it.

If your change would help others too, suggest it on the skills page or open a pull request on GitHub, and it may be folded into the library for everyone.

Where does the method come from?

It's written by cmo.so and adapts open work by others, credited on this page: ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills (MIT).

Only permissively licensed work is adapted; copyleft repos are used for ideas only and repos without a licence aren't used at all.

Is my data sent to cmo.so when the agent uses it?

No. The skill only guides your own agent; your files, documents and data stay wherever your agent and its tools keep them.

cmo.so only sees what you connect to cmo.so. Your votes and saves on this page are stored against your cmo.so sign-in.

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