Startup Team Composition Planner
Plan hiring, salaries, equity and org structure for pre-seed to Series A startups
- Repository
- wshobson/agents
- Stars
- 42,095
- Licence
- MIT
- Files
- 2 files
What it does
Once installed, the agent can act like a startup advisor on team building. It gives stage-based headcount guidance (pre-seed through Series A), role-by-role hiring plans, US salary and fully-loaded cost benchmarks with geographic adjustments, typical founder and employee equity ranges, option pool sizing, org chart design, and a hiring budget tied to revenue milestones. It is a set of written guidelines and formulas the agent follows, not a software tool.
Great for
- Founders planning their next hires and budget
- Startup advisors or consultants drafting a hiring plan
- Students learning how early-stage startups staff up and split equity
Skip it if
- Legal or tax advice on equity grants, vesting or option pools: the figures are generic and need a lawyer or accountant to confirm
- Precise compensation decisions for a specific company: the salary benchmarks are dated US 2024 ranges and may not match your market or talent pool
Try asking
- “Which roles should a seed-stage SaaS company with 6 people hire next?”
- “Estimate the fully-loaded cost of hiring 3 engineers and 2 account executives this year.”
- “What founder and early employee equity ranges are typical before a Series A?”
- “Draft a Series A org chart for a 25-person startup with engineering, sales and customer success.”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 2 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.
team-composition-analysis.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip team-composition-analysis.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip team-composition-analysis.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Give the agent your stage, current ARR, cash runway and city so it can apply the right stage and geographic adjustments.
- Treat the salary and equity numbers as starting points and check them against current market data and your own offers.
- Ask for the hiring budget formula to be run with your own role counts and start months for a realistic cost estimate.
What's inside
- references/details.md
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from wshobson/agents under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.