Write your business plan with your own AI
Why we recommend writing your business plan with your own assistant and our skill, rather than the Generate button in the app.
The Business Plan step in the app has a Generate business plan button. It works: it saves a Word file on your project, and every figure in it comes from your study. But it runs on a low-cost model, because Foundation is free and we keep our costs down.
If you use Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant with a frontier model, you'll get a noticeably better plan by having your assistant write it, connected to your Foundation project and following our business plan skill.
| Generate button in the app | Your assistant + the skill | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Low-cost model chosen for writing quality per dollar | Whatever you use: Claude, GPT, Gemini… |
| Figures | From the engine | From the engine, filled in by a script |
| Research | Uses only what's in your project | Can look up your market, competitors and costs |
| Questions | None | Asks you what it can't find out: team, funding, timing |
| Output | A Word file with the engine's tables, saved on your project | A Word file with tables, charts and scenarios, tailored to your audience |
| Cost to you | Free | Your normal assistant usage |
How to do it
Install the business plan skill
npx skills add mamarexa/foundation-skillsOr install only the business-plan-writer folder from the repository.
Ask for the plan
Write a business plan for my Foundation project "Corner Café" for a bank loan application. Give me a Word file.
The assistant reads your project and results, asks you a few questions, writes the plan, and checks the file visually before handing it over.
The skill also works without Foundation, but its financial chapter then shows your inputs only. See Use the skills without an account.