The 3 Claude Skills Every Solopreneur Needs
The Solopreneur pack is for one-person businesses — consultants, freelancers, coaches, independent operators. Not founders building a team. People doing everything themselves, where every wasted hour is a real cost and every boundary problem eventually becomes a money problem.
There are 5 skills in the pack. These are the three I'd reach for first.
/rate-setter
Most solopreneurs undercharge. Not because they don't know their work has value — because they set their rates by guessing, copying someone else, or anchoring to what they charged two years ago when they knew less and needed clients more.
/rate-setter works through three inputs: market rate for comparable work, your positioning (what actually justifies charging above commodity), and survival math — what you need to cover your costs and hit your goals. It shows you all three numbers and tells you exactly where your current rate sits.
The --raise flag is for when you already have a number and need to justify increasing it to existing clients without making it awkward. The --project flag switches from hourly to project-based pricing and handles the scoping math for you.
Run this before you quote anyone. Then run it again when something feels off about a number you're about to send.
/scope-of-work
Scope creep is predictable. A client asks for one small thing, you say yes because it feels minor, and then it happens again and again until you're doing work you never agreed to for money you already collected. It's not that clients are malicious — it's that nothing was ever written down.
/scope-of-work writes a clean, client-ready SOW from a brief description of the engagement. Deliverables, revision rounds, what's explicitly out of scope, payment terms, kill fee. Nothing ambiguous. Nothing left open to interpretation because you felt awkward being specific.
--tight produces a shorter version for smaller engagements where a 4-page document would feel like overkill. --addendum is for when scope has already crept and you need to document the new work without blowing up the relationship.
Ten minutes of scoping upfront saves hours of conflict later. That's not a productivity tip — it's math.
/solo-plan
Corporate planning frameworks don't work for one-person businesses. They're built for teams with delegation layers and quarterly review meetings. When you're doing everything yourself, five priorities is the same as no priorities, and a 40-slide deck is just something you made instead of doing the work.
/solo-plan builds a quarterly plan around three constraints: one revenue goal, one focus area, one weekly rhythm. It asks what worked last quarter and what you want to stop doing, then produces a plan scoped to what one person can actually execute.
--annual zooms out to a 12-month view when you need to think bigger picture. --sprint compresses the window to 4–6 weeks when a full quarter feels too long.
The output is one page. You read it in two minutes and actually remember what's in it.
All five skills in the Solopreneur pack — including /offer-design and /client-check-in — are available to Skills Pack members. They ship as SKILL.md files — drop them into ~/.claude/skills/ and invoke with the slash command in Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.
Next up: the Sales pack — prospect research, cold outreach, and deal debrief.