> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.startupsuperpowers.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> Validate before you build. Local-first, file-based, founder-friendly.

**Startup Superpowers** is a local-first idea-validation co-pilot for Claude Code. It guides you through the messy early work of figuring out whether an idea has legs — competitors, market, hypotheses, interviews, surveys, and an MVP — and keeps every artifact as plain markdown in your project, yours to read, edit, commit, and share.

<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SergeiGorbatiuk/startup-superpowers/main/assets/demo.gif" alt="Startup Superpowers demo" />

## What it does

The plugin turns idea-validation work into a conversation with a thoughtful co-founder — one that takes notes, runs research in the background, and never loses track of what you decided three weeks ago.

It is opinionated about *evidence before commitment*: discover competitors before sizing the market, write down hypotheses before doing interviews, run interviews before designing surveys, learn from real conversations before building an MVP.

## Key features

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  <Card title="Seven skills, one workflow" icon="route">
    `/whats-next`, `/competitors`, `/market-research`, `/hypotheses`, `/interviews`, `/surveys`, `/mvp`. Use them through a guided plan or à la carte.
  </Card>

  <Card title="All state on disk" icon="folder-open">
    Every artifact is a markdown file under `startup/` in your project. No accounts, no database, no SaaS lock-in.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Bias-isolated subagents" icon="user-shield">
    Interview analysis, hypothesis assessment, and plan recommendations each run in their own subagent — they reason on the files, not on your in-chat enthusiasm.
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  <Card title="Evidence → next move" icon="arrow-right">
    Every hypothesis assessment yields the smallest observable next validation action, biased toward a real user-facing step instead of yet another research backlog.
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  <Card title="Voice-first founder input" icon="microphone">
    Designed for thinking out loud. Dump unstructured thoughts; the agent organises them into structured artifacts.
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  <Card title="Obsidian-friendly graph" icon="diagram-project">
    All artifacts have frontmatter for filtering, and link to each other — hypotheses link to supporting interview statements via `[[slug]]`. Browse the evidence trail in any markdown editor.
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## Next steps

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  <Card title="Installation" icon="download" href="/installation">
    Install the plugin in Claude Code CLI or the Claude Desktop app.
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  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart">
    Run your first session and set up your idea workspace.
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