Agent skill · research science · mvanhorn
pp-company-goat
Look up startups across SEC Form D, GitHub, Hacker News, Companies House, YC, and Wikidata in one command — including the SEC fundraising data hidden behind paid Crunchbase tiers. Trigger phrases: `look up this startup`, `research <company>`, `what does <company> do`, `form D for <company>`, `is <company> still active`, `compare <a> and <b>`, `use company-goat`, `run company-goat-pp-cli`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds a CLI tool that allows the AI to access and extract SEC Form D data and other startup information not readily available in public datasets.
What it needs
Requires company-goat-pp-cli installed locally. About 10k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Company GOAT — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the company-goat-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: company-goat-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer): If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. When to Use This CLI Use Company GOAT when an agent or human needs structured company-research data on a small or midsize startup — fundraising, engineering signal, mention timeline, legal entity, domain age — without paying for Crunchbase Pro. Best for one-company-at-a-time deep research. Not for bulk discovery (sources don't scale to thousands of queries) and not for global private-market funding-graph queries (no source has that for free). The killer feature: SEC Form D, free Most US startups raising priced equity rounds (Series Seed → Series C, Reg D 506(b)/506(c)) file Form D with the SEC within 15 days of first sale. The filing names the issuer, the offering amount, the exemption claimed, and the related persons (officers, directors, promoters). Crunchbase Pro charges $999/year for a wrapper around this same source; this CLI extracts it directly from EDGAR for free. Reach for funding when an agent needs to verify a US startup's actual fundraising history rather than quote Crunchbase Free's empty "undisclosed" rows. Coverage at a glance SEC Form D / funding / funding-trend — US-only. Reg D priced rounds. Pre-Series-A SAFEs are not covered. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/company-goat