23 prompts
Act as a startup COO. Company stage: [details] Period covered: [quarter] Key topics: [list] Decisions needed: [list] Create a board deck outline: executive summary, KPIs, financials and runway, progress on goals, key risks, strategic discussion topics, decisions requested, and appendix. Give a headline for each slide…
Structure a board meeting deck that focuses discussion on decisions, not just status updates.
Act as a startup people adviser. Current team: [roles] Goals for the next 12 months: [details] Budget for hires: [amount] Bottlenecks: [where work piles up] Recommend the next 5 hires in priority order with reasoning, full-time vs contractor vs agency for each, a simple org chart for now and in 12 months, and a hiring…
Plan which roles to hire next, in what order, and how the team should be structured as you grow.
You are a startup coach who believes in testing before building. Idea: [description] Target customer: [who] Assumptions: [what must be true] Help me: list the riskiest assumptions, design 5 cheap validation experiments (interviews, landing page, pre-sales, concierge MVP), define success criteria for each, write 10 cus…
Test whether people want your idea before you build it, with cheap experiments and clear success criteria.
Act as a startup adviser. Create a lean canvas for my idea. Idea: [description] Customers: [who] What I know so far: [details] Fill in: problem (top 3), customer segments and early adopters, unique value proposition, solution, channels, revenue streams, cost structure, key metrics, and unfair advantage. Then highlight…
Fill in a one-page lean canvas to clarify problem, customers, solution and unfair advantage.
Act as a startup launch adviser. Product: [details] Audience and community: [existing followers, email list] Launch date: [date] Create: tagline options (under 60 characters), description, maker comment, gallery and video ideas, a pre-launch outreach plan (without asking for upvotes in ways that break the platform's r…
Prepare a Product Hunt launch with assets, messaging, community outreach and launch-day schedule.
Act as a pitch coach. What I'm pitching: [myself / my company / my product] Who I help: [audience] Problem I solve: [problem] What makes me different: [unique angle] Proof: [results, clients, numbers] Context: [networking event, investor, job fair, sales call] Write: 1. A one-line version (under 20 words) 2. A 30-seco…
A natural, memorable pitch for yourself, your startup or your service, in short and longer versions.
Act as a startup coach. My skills: [list] Experience/industry: [background] Interests: [what I enjoy] Budget to start: [amount] Time available: [hours per week] Location/market: [where] Give me 12 business ideas across service, product and digital models. For each: one-line description, who pays and why, startup cost,…
Generate realistic business and side-hustle ideas that match your skills, budget and time, with a first step for each.
Act as a startup CFO. Business: [what you sell and how] Pricing: [prices] Current numbers: [monthly revenue, customers, costs — or 'pre-revenue'] Growth plan: [marketing channels, hires, launches] Starting cash: [amount] Create: 1. A list of key assumptions (conversion rates, growth rate, churn, average order value, c…
Build a simple revenue, cost and profit forecast with transparent assumptions, best/worst cases and the numbers investors look at.
Act as a startup founder who has raised multiple funding rounds. Company: [name and one-line description] Stage: [idea / pre-seed / seed / Series A] Raising: [amount] for [what you'll use it for] Traction: [users, revenue, growth, partnerships] Team: [founders and relevant experience] Market: [who the customers are] C…
Build a 12-slide investor pitch with the headline, key points and visual idea for every slide, following the structure top investors expect.
Act as a brand naming expert. What I'm naming: [business / product / app] What it does: [description] Audience: [who it's for] Brand personality: [e.g. playful, premium, trustworthy, bold] Words or ideas to avoid: [list] Give me 30 name ideas grouped by style: - Real words used in a new way - Compound words - Invented…
Brainstorm memorable, available-sounding names in different styles, with the meaning behind each and a quick check list before you choose.
Act as a startup advisor. Create a one-page business plan for this idea. Idea: [describe the business] Location/market: [where] Starting budget: [amount] Founder skills: [your strengths] Use these headings: - Problem - Solution - Target customers (be specific) - Unique value proposition (one sentence) - Competitors an…
Get a lean, one-page business plan covering the problem, customers, revenue model, costs, channels and first 90-day milestones.