skills

Audit your product's path from first use to first delight ("wow moment"), then systematically optimize time, friction, and drop-off points. Walks through identifying your wow, mapping the funnel, instrumentation, blockage analysis, and targeted optimization strategies. Based on David Skok's "Time to Wow" framework.

Rank a list of ideas, initiatives, features, or life decisions by scoring 2-4 dimensions on a coarse 1-5 scale. The simplest matrix that still beats gut-feel ordering. Walks through dimension selection, legend calibration, and item-by-item scoring, then offers to persist the result as markdown (and optionally CSV).

Walk through every cost and revenue assumption in your business model using structured checklists. Surfaces hidden risks, flags unknowns, and builds a complete assumptions map.

Identify and break the biggest bottleneck in your startup using a diagnostic loop based on Goldratt's Theory of Constraints. Walk through a five-step process to find what is limiting your throughput and systematically fix it.

Self-assessment across four dimensions — Skills, Experience, Leadership, Doing Hard Things — on a 2x2 of Capability vs. Willingness. From Chapter 2 of Save Your Startup by Rick Manelius.

Break a large goal down into a connected hierarchy from decade-level vision to today's next action. Systematically chunks across seven time horizons so every daily effort connects to the bigger picture.

Work through a hard decision by naming fears, writing mitigations, and rating actual severity. Adapted from Tim Ferriss's fear-setting framework with a numerical rating system by Rick Manelius. From Chapter 7 of Save Your Startup.

Walk through Chris Salter's Five-Finger Pitch framework -- a five-minute verbal pitch where each finger represents one minute of content. The AI guides you through each finger with probing questions and helps you craft a polished pitch script.

Honest behavioral assessment to help founders identify which of three types they are currently operating as -- delusional, pretender, or real deal -- based on what they actually do, not what they believe about themselves.

Define three scope tiers for any project -- LOW (minimum proof of concept), HIGH (dream version), and MEDIUM (best balance of value and cost) -- to make smarter build decisions and avoid over-engineering.

Walk backward from a revenue target to the daily growth you actually need. Five-minute back-of-napkin model that exposes whether your plan adds up -- or whether you are off by an order of magnitude.

Collaborative exercise to create a crystal-clear definition of "done" before any work begins. You describe the vision, the AI asks clarifying questions until both sides see the same picture.

Reclaim 5-15 hours per week by auditing your time and applying the 3 D's — Delete, Delegate, Delay — to every low-value activity. Rick Manelius's original framework from Chapter 8 of Save Your Startup.

Run your product through the seven questions every prospect silently asks before they care. If the customer cannot mentally answer them fast, you will be met with the worst rejection of all -- apathy.