Founder OS

The imported bot's first conversation with its new owner: one line on what the bot does, seven setup questions asked one at a time, then it writes memories, creates the weekly scorecard routine, and starts the first skill.

Use at the start of any engagement, when unsure what to work on next, and every week: diagnoses the business's stage and single growth constraint from a few numbers, picks the one skill to run next, and runs the weekly revenue scorecard (leads, booked calls, show and close rate, average price, CAC, churn, cash collected) to name the biggest leak and one move with a re-measure date.

Use when creating or fixing an offer (new product, service, pilot, or a low-converting existing one): builds an offer so good people feel stupid saying no, using the value equation, a stacked solution, guarantee, bonuses, scarcity, urgency, and a name.

Use when preparing for sales calls, building a sales script for a team, or when close rate is below target: drafts a CLOSER-structured call, discovery questions, an objection bank, and a follow-up cadence. Drafts only.

Use when a business needs more leads, is starting customer acquisition, or relies on one channel: builds a daily-volume plan across warm outreach, cold outreach, free content, and paid ads, plus lead getters, with numbers to hit.

Use when setting a first price, adding tiers, raising prices, or when margin or close rate is off: prices on value delivered, builds tiers and an ascension path, and tests price changes with a re-measure date.

Use when leads don't turn into revenue, CAC is rising, or before adding traffic: maps every funnel step, measures conversion between them, finds the biggest leak, and proposes one fix at a time with a test.

Use before scaling acquisition, when setting prices or ad budgets, or monthly as a checkup: computes gross margin, contribution margin, CAC, LTV, LTV:CAC, and payback per channel and segment from real data, and names the lever to pull.

Use monthly, at each revenue stage change, or when growth stalls or the team is busy without results: identifies the single constraint capping growth right now (leads, conversion, delivery, retention, cash, people, or the founder) and points every resource at it.

Use before committing time or money to a new business, product line, or audience: scores candidate markets and niches on pain, buying power, reachability, and growth from real evidence, and picks one to test.

Use when validating a market, offer, or feature, or when growth stalls and nobody can say why buyers buy or leave: plans past-behavior interviews, drafts outreach, and turns transcripts into ranked jobs, pains, and words.

Use monthly once there are repeat or subscription customers, or when churn, refunds, or flat LTV show up: finds why customers leave, fixes onboarding and activation, and builds expansion (upsell, cross-sell, referrals) to raise LTV.

Use when launching, when buyers compare you on price to the wrong alternatives, when messaging isn't converting, or before a rebrand: defines who it's for, what it beats, why it wins, and the category frame to own.

Use when building or fixing an organic content machine for a brand or founder: turns one pillar piece into many platform-native micro pieces with strong hooks and packaging, on a fixed weekly cadence measured by retention and leads. Drafts only.

Use when considering paid acquisition (Meta, Google, YouTube, X, TikTok, LinkedIn) or when ads are running unprofitably: writes a hypothesis-driven creative test plan with budget caps, kill rules, and ad drafts. Plan and drafts only, no spend.

Use weekly, or whenever cash feels tight or a big payment is coming: builds a read-only 13-week view of business cash, receipts, disbursements, runway in weeks, and dated cash risks, with collection and spend levers as proposals.

Use when planning a year, deciding a hire or spend, raising capital, or when cash feels tight: builds a driver-based monthly model (revenue, costs, cash), base/upside/downside scenarios, and company runway, from actuals not hopes.

Use when setting up how a company runs (first hires onward), when execution feels chaotic, or each week and quarter: builds the one-page company OS, the KPI scorecard, the weekly meeting, and the quarterly plan, so goals turn into weekly numbers with owners.

Use once a week (e.g., Friday afternoon) or when the owner asks how the week went: reviews every function against evidence, separates shipped work from theater, names the cross-function trade-off, and sets next week's levers.

Use before any meaningful negotiation (deal, price, partnership, vendor, salary, investor terms, acquisition, dispute): builds a one-page prep sheet with goals, BATNA, the other side's world, an accusation audit, labels, calibrated questions, and a concession plan.

Use once there are paying or active users (about 30+), before scaling spend or headcount, or when growth feels forced: measures PMF with the 40% very-disappointed survey, retention curves, and organic pull, and names the gap to close.

Use when a new money idea, offer, product, channel, or big build is proposed, or when an existing experiment hits its date. Grills the idea, sets a defined-risk test with a binary keep/cut rule and hard date, and returns a keep/cut call. One primary experiment at a time.