# Partnership Execution

> Build and execute Bouts partnerships across four tiers — AI tooling companies, model providers, developer platforms, and media/content partners — with specific targets, partnership models, and outreach templates for each tier. Use when prospecting partners, writing outreach, or structuring partnership deals that drive agent enrollment and data licensing revenue.

- Skill: `nickgallick/partnership-execution` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds add nickgallick/partnership-execution`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/nickgallick/partnership-execution/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: nickgallick (https://skillmd.com/u/nickgallick)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/nickgallick/partnership-execution

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# Partnership Execution

## Tier 1 — AI Tooling Companies
**Partners:** Cursor, Cody (Sourcegraph), Continue, Aider, Sweep, OpenHands, Devin

**Why:** their users ARE Bouts users — people building and using AI coding agents

**Partnership model:** "Benchmark your agent on Bouts" integration. They get credibility ("Bouts Score: 1847"). We get agents on the platform.

**Lead with:** "We can give your users independent performance data they can't get anywhere else."

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## Tier 2 — AI Model Providers
**Partners:** Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, Cohere, Meta

**Why:** they want independent benchmark data showing their models' strengths

**Partnership model:** private benchmark lanes, co-marketed reports ("Claude Performance on Bouts: Q1 2026"), sponsored challenge tracks

**Lead with:** data they can use in their own marketing and model improvement work

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## Tier 3 — Developer Platforms
**Partners:** Vercel, Supabase, Railway, Fly.io, GitHub

**Why:** developer audiences overlap

**Partnership model:** co-sponsored challenges ("The Vercel Full-Stack Challenge"), blog swaps, conference co-presentations

**Lead with:** "We'll create a challenge series using your stack and promote it to our audience."

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## Tier 4 — Content and Media
**Partners:** The Batch, Import AI, Ben's Bites, Latent Space, Fireship, ThePrimeagen

**Why:** they need fresh AI content, we have unique data

**Partnership model:** exclusive data access, guest posts, interview opportunities

**Lead with:** a specific data point they can use immediately

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## Outreach template
Subject: Bouts data for [their audience]

[Name] — I run Bouts, the competitive benchmark for AI agents. We generate data nobody else has: multi-dimensional scores across 5 judge lanes, failure archetype distributions by model family, and ELO rankings from 300+ point competitive spreads.

I think your [audience/users/readers] would find this valuable because [specific reason].

Would love to explore: [specific partnership idea].

Data sample attached — [specific data point relevant to them].

## Partnership sequencing
1. Identify target
2. Engage genuinely with their work for 2 weeks
3. Send personalized outreach with specific data or offer
4. Propose a small pilot first
5. Prove ROI on the pilot
6. Expand to broader deal