Company OS Starter Kit

Build your own Company OS with Claude Code.

We're building an AI-native GTM services company. We scaled to 20 people in under 9 months. Bootstrapped. Claude Code has become a huge part of how we operate.

This is the starter kit for building the same kind of system. The folder structure, the skills, the safety hooks, and the setup guide we wish we had when we started.

Built by Dan Rosenthal at workflows.io. Full setup guide on Notion.

What is a Company OS?

A Company OS is a set of files (primarily markdown) that gives your AI persistent knowledge about your business. Your tools, your processes, your rules, your voice, your team. Instead of re-explaining your business every conversation, Claude starts every session already knowing who you are.

At the center is CLAUDE.md, the one file Claude reads on load. It points to everything else: company context, skills, tool connections, safety rules. Not a prompt you paste. An operating system that compounds the more you use it.

What's in the Kit

Root

blueprint/ - Your Company OS folder structure

Copy this into your project and fill it in. Claude will interview you.

gtm-skills/ - 5 starter skills

plugin/ - Workflows Engineering Plugin

Bundled locally in this repo (not an external install). Copy to your project to get structured workflow commands.

Quick Start

# 1. Clone
git clone https://github.com/Workflowsio/company-os-starter-kit.git
cd company-os-starter-kit

# 2. Copy blueprint to your project
cp -r blueprint/ /path/to/your-project/
cp CLAUDE.md /path/to/your-project/CLAUDE.md

# 3. Copy skills
cp -r gtm-skills/ /path/to/your-project/gtm-skills/

# 4. Copy plugin (optional - adds /workflows commands)
cp -r plugin/ /path/to/your-project/.claude/plugins/company-os/

# 5. Install hooks
mkdir -p /path/to/your-project/.claude/hooks
cp blueprint/hooks/*.sh /path/to/your-project/.claude/hooks/
cp blueprint/hooks/settings.json /path/to/your-project/.claude/settings.json
chmod +x /path/to/your-project/.claude/hooks/*.sh

# 6. Open your project in Claude Code and go

Read the CLAUDE.md and all the files in this repo.
Interview me about my business and help me
fill everything in. Go section by section.

The 5 Skills

Skills are reusable instruction sets that tell Claude HOW to do specific tasks. Each includes frameworks, step-by-step instructions, anti-patterns, and quality checks.

These five are GTM-focused starters. The skill format works for any domain. Create skills for engineering, support, finance, HR, product - whatever your team does.

The Blueprint

The blueprint/ folder is the recommended structure for your Company OS. Copy it to your project and fill it in.

Start with CLAUDE.md + company/overview.md. Add more as you go. A Company OS with 5 solid files beats one with 50 scattered files.

Philosophy

Why GitHub? Version control. Branching. Diffs. Pull requests. Your AI context should be managed with the same rigor as your code. When something breaks, you can revert. When someone joins, they clone and go.

Why markdown? It is the universal format. Every AI tool reads it. Every developer knows it. No vendor lock-in. No proprietary format. Move it to any system at any time.

Why this structure? CLAUDE.md is the hub. Brain files are the spokes. Skills are the playbooks. Hooks are the guardrails. Each piece has one job. Add what you need, skip what you don't.

AI-agnostic. The architecture works with Claude Code today. The files are plain markdown. If you switch tools tomorrow, the context transfers. The skills transfer. Only the hooks are Claude Code-specific.

Multiplayer. Share the repo with your team. Everyone gets the same context. Skills compound across sessions. Brain files stay current through commits. This is how AI context scales past one person.

Credits

Built by Dan Rosenthal at workflows.io.

The Workflows Engineering Plugin is built on top of Compound Engineering by EveryInc. The core workflow commands (plan, work, review, swarm, brainstorm) come from their excellent open-source foundation.

Follow me on LinkedIn for more on building with AI, GTM systems, and context engineering. I post about what we're building at workflows.io and share the frameworks behind it.

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