pmf-superpowers

PMF Superpowers

A Claude Code plugin that runs your startup through Sequoia's product-market-fit framework — and refuses to advance when the evidence isn't there.

What it does

Describe your startup, and the plugin places you in one of Sequoia's three archetypes — Hair on Fire, Hard Fact, Future Vision — then works the Four Terrifying Questions as stage gates:

1. Right to exist. Ready to marry this idea for a decade-plus?
2. Do people care enough? 50+ cold conversations, <30% warm-intro'd, ≥30% lean-in.
3. Does the product change behavior? Real switching, not polite enthusiasm.
4. Will they pay enough? Pricing that holds, not pricing that pleases.

It pulls analogous cases from iconic startups when a precedent beats abstract argument.

What it refuses

Claim Q2 with eight conversations — the plugin returns the evidence gap. Claim PMF on revenue from outside your ICP — it refuses the claim. Reach for one of the twenty-five common founder rationalizations ("the market will tell us once we ship") and the plugin returns the counter and the data that would clear the gate.

The refusal is the product. Frameworks without enforcement are decoration.

The five reference cases

• Nubank — Q1 and Q2 inside a regulated credit-card market
• DoorDash — Q2 by refusing non-restaurant merchants
• Dropbox — Q3 through the viral-onboarding rebuild
• Square — Q4 with transaction-fee pricing
• Robinhood — Q2 by serving active traders first

Each case ships with verbatim sourcing. No paraphrase-as-quote.

Install

/plugin install pmf-superpowers@anthropic

From the Claude Code marketplace. The framework loads on the first PMF-shaped question.

Use it

Three prompts that invoke the plugin:

"I want to find product-market fit for my startup."

"We've talked to twelve users. They all said they'd buy it. Are we at Q2?"

"Should we take this enterprise check from a customer outside our ICP?"

The agent asks for your archetype first, then routes to the right question. When you claim resolution, expect something like this:

REFUSED. Twelve conversations is not fifty. Warm-intro share unknown. Lean-in rate not measured. Q2 stays open. Next move: thirty more cold conversations, log lean-in per call, then re-test.

Built by

Paul Dabrowski at EnactSkill. The question-skills and corpus cases were generated by EnactSkill's eval-and-refuse engine from Sequoia, The Mom Test, Steve Blank, and April Dunford — held to the same threshold the plugin holds you to. Source: github.com/pauldabrowski85/pmf-superpowers.

License and support

MIT. See LICENSE.

Bug reports: GitHub Issues. Anything else: [email protected].

/plugin marketplace add pauldabrowski85/pmf-superpowers
/plugin install pmf-superpowers@pmf-superpowers-dev