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Agent skill

hypothesis-building

Generate testable pain hypotheses from the company context file (ICP, win cases, product knowledge) and user input.

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Filed under Prospecting and list building.

From getbeton/openclaw-gtm-skills · 18 skills · 6 · pushed 2026-05-07

What it does when it runs

Generate testable pain hypotheses from the company context file (ICP, win cases, product knowledge) and user input. Fast, no API keys needed — pure reasoning. Outputs a hypothesis set with search angles that directly guide list-building and segmentation. Sits between context-building and email-prompt-building in the Beton GTM pipeline. Triggers on: "build hypotheses", "hypothesis set", "pain hypotheses", "define hypotheses", "what pain points", "campaign angles", "search angles", "refine hypotheses", "what verticals to target", "run on scored companies", "generate hypotheses from data".

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Tool permissions it declares
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Install it

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git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/getbeton/openclaw-gtm-skills.git /tmp/openclaw-gtm-skills
git -C /tmp/openclaw-gtm-skills sparse-checkout set "skills/hypothesis-building"
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/hypothesis-building
cp -R "/tmp/openclaw-gtm-skills/skills/hypothesis-building/." ~/.claude/skills/hypothesis-building/

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The skill

Source on GitHub ↗

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Other skills for the same job

Different authors, same problem. Matched on the words in the skill name, across every library in the catalogue except this one.

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