AI Skill Library — The Shaping Window

Free AI prompt skills for federal capital formation. Published methods. Check them yourself. No login. No paywall.

Categories

• Setup: One-time setup — your AI teaches you how to build and maintain your intelligence project.
• Prospect & Qualify: Find, vet, and qualify new opportunities before pursuing them.
• Map & Position: Understand the competitive terrain, map gates, and establish positioning.
• Custody & Maintain: Manage active positions, keep the book fresh, maintain compliance.
• Grade & Measure: Score, rate, and measure the health of your portfolio and operations.
• Thesis & Strategy: Build, test, and recalibrate your investment thesis.
• Audit & Verify: Check your work, verify outputs, ensure accuracy.

Published Skills (44)

• BOOK BALANCE — For all teams. This Skill reports portfolio mix by position lane. It does not recommend allocation.. BOOK BALANCE
• — For anyone with an active book who needs a point-in-time audit of their route network. Your AI reads your current book state and produces a DC-105 snapshot with coverage analysis, staleness flags, and regrounding requirements.. BOOK SNAPSHOT
• PRINCIPAL BRIEFING SKILL — For principals, executives, and board members. Generate one defensible sentence about the state of your book. Answer the board with structure, not hope
• BROADENING ELIGIBILITY — research. Institutional-designation eligibility from the published registries: which broadening-participation . This Skill checks institutional eligibility against published EPSCoR/MSI/HBCU designations. It does not assess competitiveness.
• CADENCE RECEIPTS — For grants-govcon teams. This Skill documents historical posting patterns. It does not project future dates.. CADENCE RECEIPTS
• COALITION LEDGER — lobbying. Descriptive accounting of your own coalition: documented commitments, last-action dates, deliverable. This Skill records partner engagement dates and documented commitments. It does not score loyalty or health.
• COMPLIANCE MAPPER — philanthropy. The multi-funder requirements intersection: every published requirement from every active funder, ma. This Skill intersects compliance requirements across multiple funders. It does not prioritize.
• COMPLIANCE MATRIX — procurement. The classic compliance matrix, governed: every solicitation requirement extracted and cited, mapped . This Skill maps shall/must requirements to evidence presence. It does not score quality.
• COMPLIANCE READINESS — research. The research-compliance prerequisite check: per requirement, the status your documents show — MET on. This Skill checks compliance document status against published requirements. It does not certify readiness.
• PI ELIGIBILITY READER — research. The lawful half of PI-to-FOA matching: the FOA's published PI eligibility floors, checked against th. This Skill checks PI eligibility floors. It does not score expertise or alignment.
• FALLBACK POSITIONS SKILL — For portfolio managers and development teams. Identify fallback positions when a submission fails or stalls. One submission is not a book
• CIVIC GRANTS EDITION — For federal civic grants teams. Check the health of your tracked opportunities. Avoid wasted effort on dead, stale, or residual doors
• FEDERAL GRANTS HEALTH CHECK — . .
• FIELD DOSSIER — procurement. The public-record dossier your competitive review starts from: incumbency as published, award histor. This Skill produces a cited competitive record. It does not handicap, rank, or predict.
• FUNDER SCOPE READER — philanthropy. The funder's published priorities, quoted from 990s and guidelines; the eligibility floors, checked;. This Skill quotes funder priorities at scope. It does not match, rank, or recommend ask amounts.
• GAP FINANCE HEALTH CHECK — . .
• GATE REVIEW PACKET — all. Assemble the complete evidence packet for a pursue/pass gate review — the criteria are yours, the ev. This Skill produces a go/no-go evidence packet. It does not make the decision.
• GOVCON RECOMPETE HEALTH CHECK — . .
• GR POLICY WATCH HEALTH CHECK — . .
• INDIRECT RATE IMPACT — research. True-cost arithmetic on documents in session: your negotiated rate agreement, the FOA's published ca. This Skill computes F&A rate impact on budget ceilings. It does not advise on rate negotiation.
• FEEDER POSITIONS SKILL — For long-term portfolio strategists. Find feeder positions that build institutional history. Some opportunities are rungs, not wins
• LEGISLATIVE TRACKER — lobbying. The documentary position of the bills you track: introduced, referred, reported, calendared, passed . This Skill tracks bill advancement through published committee actions. It does not predict passage.
• List Builder — Build a Portfolio from the Public Record — For practitioners building a tracked list from scratch. Walk the source rail to construct a filtered portfolio using your thesis as a query. YOUR BOOK, BUILT FROM NOTHING
• LOSS CLASSIFICATION SKILL — For teams that just lost a pursuit. Classify where the loss actually happened. You may have lost upstream, not at the deadline
• MOBILIZATION WINDOW — financing. For lenders reading the public record: what a fresh award's published size, period, and payment cloc. This Skill documents the structural payment interval. It does not assess anyone's financial condition.
• PAYMENT CLOCK READER — financing. The statutory payment clocks and published payment-performance data behind government receivables — . This Skill cites statutory payment intervals and published performance. It does not assign risk tiers.
• PIPELINE LEDGER — financing. Descriptive funnel accounting on your own pipeline: what sits at each stage, how long by your own da. This Skill records pipeline stage and age. It does not forecast conversion or velocity.
• PORTFOLIO CONCENTRATION — financing. Concentration accounting on your own ledger: distribution by agency, sector, vehicle, and vintage — . This Skill reports sector and agency concentration from your own records. It does not recommend allocation.
• READINESS SKILL — For pursuit teams across all verticals. Check if you are actually ready before pursuing. Preparation is compliance plus prerequisites, sooner
• PUBLIC RECORD MAP — lobbying. Each member's DOCUMENTED actions on your issue — sponsorships, cosponsorships, votes, hearings, floo. This Skill maps documented official actions. It does not infer position from silence.
• R1 RESEARCH FUNDING HEALTH CHECK — . .
• RECOMPETE CLOCK — For procurement teams. This Skill maps the shaping timeline from both seats. It does not predict outcome or recommend a bid decision.. RECOMPETE CLOCK
• REGULATORY COMMENT WINDOW — lobbying. Docket reading as gate reading: which comment windows on your issues are open, closing when, with wh. This Skill identifies open dockets and comment deadlines from published registers. It does not draft comments.
• RENEWAL TERMS READER — philanthropy. What each grant's own document says about continuation: renewable clauses quoted, multi-year structu. This Skill quotes continuation language or marks TERMS-SILENT. It does not predict likelihood.
• REPLENISHMENT — For all teams. This Skill reports whether book additions matched closures. It does not prescribe a target count.. REPLENISHMENT
• Screenshot Guide — For anyone who needs a quick reference on capturing screens for SWII skills. Exact keys for Windows, Mac, Chromebook, and phone — plus when to use full-page vs. region. 5-minute reference you'll use every time a wizard says 'screenshot'
• Setup Companion — For anyone new to using AI beyond search — the only skill you paste before all others. One-time setup: your AI teaches you how to create and maintain your intelligence project. After 60–90 minutes, you have a standing AI project ready for all SWII skills
• UPSTREAM GATES SKILL — For federal capital formation teams. Find the upstream shaping gates before the final deadline. Stop waiting for the final deadline
• STEWARDSHIP CADENCE — philanthropy. The reporting and stewardship calendar assembled from your award documents: what is due, to whom, wh. This Skill extracts reporting deadlines from award documents. It does not draft reports.
• TEAMING CLASSIFIER SKILL — For procurement and grant pursuit teams. Classify solo vs teaming vs consortium pursuits. Do not pass too early
• THESIS BUILDER — For all teams. This Skill produces a thesis document: verticals, criteria, stretch definition. It does not validate or grade the thesis.. THESIS BUILDER
• THESIS RECALIBRATION — For all teams. This Skill edits an existing thesis against the latest monthly. It does not re-derive — that requires a quarterly.. THESIS RECALIBRATION
• — For anyone with a ratified thesis (from Thesis Builder v0.2) who wants their AI to propose a book. Your AI reads your ratified thesis, envelope, and capacity basis to propose positions, lane assignments, and a watchlist import object.. THESIS-TO-WATCHLIST COMPILER
• WATCHLIST RESET — For all teams. This Skill re-baselines an aged watchlist with logged evidence. It does not silently remove rows.. WATCHLIST RESET