Two-Sentence Pitch Skill
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A specialized capability encoded as an agent-readable skill within Y Combinator's internal Tool Registry, designed to help portfolio companies craft concise two-sentence descriptions of their startups.
Role within YC's Agent Infrastructure
The Two-Sentence Pitch Skill is cited as a concrete example of how organizational superintelligence is constructed: by taking a task that experienced humans already perform well — in this case, the craft that YC partners apply when helping founders articulate their company clearly — and encoding it into a form that an AI agent can execute and improve upon. As described in Inside YC's AI Playbook at 20:00, it is "a skill that partners at YC use to help our companies write what we call two sentence descriptions," making tacit partner expertise available programmatically.
Connection to Continuous Skill Improvement
This skill is also used to illustrate the broader flywheel of organizational AI development: transcripts and usage data from the skill's deployment feed back into auto-improving it over time. The argument at 23:04 is that encoding every organizational skill this way — "how do you build superintelligence inside a company? You do that on everything you do" — is the mechanism by which a company accumulates compounding AI capability. The Two-Sentence Pitch Skill serves as an accessible, concrete entry point for that thesis: a high-value, judgment-intensive human task made scalable and self-improving.