# Progress Check-in

> Establish how a company is really doing, against what they themselves committed to.

- Skill: `tinyhumansai/progress-check-in` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add tinyhumansai/progress-check-in`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/tinyhumansai/progress-check-in/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: tinyhumansai (https://skillmd.com/u/tinyhumansai)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/tinyhumansai/progress-check-in

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# Progress Check-in

Every company reports well. Founders are selected for optimism and the weekly
update is a performance, so the check-in has to be built to get past both.

## When to use

- A cycle checkpoint.
- A company's updates have started sounding the same each week.
- Anything is about to be said to an investor about them.

## Steps

1. **Read `committed_to` first,** in their own words. Measuring against the rest
   of the cohort hides a cohort that is uniformly stuck.
2. **Ask for a number, not a narrative.** Users, revenue, conversations,
   whatever they said they would move. A narrative about momentum is what
   arrives when the number did not move.
3. **Ask what they have stopped doing.** Companies drop things quietly under
   pressure, and what they dropped is usually the more informative answer.
4. **Ask what would actually help.** Most answers are a specific introduction;
   almost none are more advice, though advice is what gets offered.
5. **Say the hard thing now.** A founder told in week ten what somebody noticed
   in week two has been failed by the programme.
6. **Record `actually` honestly,** and update `last_real_conversation` only if
   you heard something you did not expect. If you did not, that is the finding.

## Output

The `cohort` row updated with the real state and what they need, and one
concrete action. "Their update looks fine and I learned nothing new" is a
legitimate and important entry.