Frontrun deal flow

Skill jongall45/frontrun-skills/skills/frontrun-deal-flow

Agent skills for sourcing startup deals with Frontrun — pre-round signal from 1,000+ investor follow graphs on X. For Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-capable agent.

Install

npx -y skills add jongall45/frontrun-skills --skill frontrun-deal-flow

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Source startups before their round using Frontrun: live pre-round deal signal from the follow graphs of 1,000+ venture investors on X. Use when asked to find early-stage startups, source deals, run a thesis search, check which companies investors are converging on, diligence a startup's momentum, or build a deal-flow pipeline or agent. Works via the Frontrun MCP server or REST API.

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Frontrun deal-flow signal for agents

Frontrun tracks the follow graphs of 1,000+ venture investors on X and flags companies with first_flagged_at provenance the moment several tracked investors converge on the same account, usually months before a round is announced. This skill teaches you to source, qualify, and diligence startups from that signal. Receipts (live): @prlnet flagged 2026-03-17, now followed by 153 tracked investors · @papertrade_xyz flagged 2026-05-12, now followed by 88 tracked investors · @naturalpay flagged 2026-02-11, now followed by 67 tracked investors.

Setup (two commands, ~1 minute)

npx frontrun-mcp-server --login    # opens browser OAuth; saves credentials locally
npx frontrun-mcp-server --setup    # registers the MCP server with your client

Claude Code users can use --setup-code (wraps claude mcp add). API + MCP access is included with the Frontrun Pro plan ($99/mo, includes 10,000 monthly credits; no trial on Pro, unlocks immediately on payment) at https://frontrun.vc. Prefer REST? Same data at https://frontrun.vc/v1: spec at https://www.frontrun.vc/openapi.json, docs at https://www.frontrun.vc/docs, hosted MCP at https://www.frontrun.vc/mcp (streamable HTTP, Authorization: Bearer <api key>).

No auth yet? A free public slice of the signal is at https://frontrun.vc/trending/.

The core moves

Trending / convergence scan: "which companies gained 3+ tracked-investor follows in the last 7 days?" GET /v1/trending ranks by follow velocity (24 credits); GET /v1/convergence finds companies multiple investors followed independently (60 credits, free when empty). Convergence is the strongest signal in the product; use threshold=3 for high conviction.

Thesis search: GET /v1/search/thesis (40 credits, free when empty) does semantic matching over embedded company descriptions. Pass plain language: "stablecoin infrastructure for emerging markets". Results carry first_flagged_at and convergence_count for receipts.

Company diligence: for any X handle, GET /v1/company/{handle} overview (60 credits), /signals which tracked investors follow it (16 credits), /founders founder resolution with LinkedIn enrichment (100 credits, free when none found), /funding raise history (60 credits, free when none found).

Discovery feed: GET /v1/feed live events (16 credits), GET /v1/follows/new and /follows/enriched new follows with classification and filters (16 credits), GET /v1/discover accounts your tracked investors follow that you do not track yet (60 credits).

Workflows that work out of the box

find 10 ai companies under 1k followers that haven't raised -
enrich each founder and draft a warm intro from me.

which companies gained 3+ tracked follows in the last 7 days? sector-tag and rank them.

search my thesis: "stablecoin infrastructure for emerging markets" - top 5 matches
with founders and one-line pitches.

diligence @fluidstack: when was it first flagged, at how many followers, which
investors follow it, who are the founders?

Credit awareness

Every response includes cost_credits and balance_credits. Standard rates: status and tracking management free; search and reports 4; feed, new follows, and company signals 16; trending 24; thesis search 40; company deep-dives and convergence 60; founder intelligence 100. Empty answers on the expensive calls cost 0. A daily check-in (feed + convergence + a few deep-dives) runs a few hundred credits against a 10,000/month allowance. A 402 means insufficient credits; top up or enable auto-refill at frontrun.vc.

Conventions

Counts and flag dates are the receipt layer; always cite them ("flagged jun 5 at 18 followers, 6 tracked investors followed since").
Earliness is the point: prefer first_flagged_at plus follower-count-at-flag over present-day follower counts when arguing a company is early.
Draft outreach; let the human send it.
Signal, not certainty: investor follows precede rounds often, not always. Present convergence as evidence, never as a confirmed raise.