| name | Coach Founder Strategy |
| description | Surface strategic blind spots and decision patterns by synthesizing themes across investor calls, team meetings, customer conversations, and board discussions. Provides stage-appropriate coaching frameworks for PMF, hiring, fundraising, and growth decisions. Trigger on: founder coaching, strategic review, blind spots, decision patterns, startup strategy, founder debrief, strategic priorities, founder reflection. |
| dependencies | [] |
| author | Harmony |
| version | 1.0.0 |
| icon | sparkles |
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| screenshots | [] |
| category | Strategy |
Purpose
Founders are drowning in decisions spread across dozens of conversations each week. This skill acts as a strategic mirror — synthesizing recurring themes, contradictions, and patterns across your investor calls, team meetings, customer conversations, and board discussions. It surfaces what you keep saying but haven't acted on, where your stated priorities diverge from your time allocation, and which decisions are overdue. Stage-aware coaching (pre-seed through growth) ensures the advice fits where you actually are, not where you think you should be.
When to Use
- Monthly strategic reflection to connect conversation patterns into actionable insights
- Post-fundraise priority reset to realign team and strategy after capital infusion
- Before or after a potential pivot to validate whether you're solving the right problem
- When feeling overwhelmed by competing priorities and losing sight of core focus
- Quarterly planning to ensure decisions made in previous weeks ladder up to quarterly goals
- Co-founder alignment check when you sense misalignment on strategy or priorities
- After a tough board meeting to process feedback and identify which concerns are recurring
Instructions
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Scan recent conversations for recurring themes — Review your last 10–15 conversations (investor calls, team syncs, customer discovery, board meetings, 1-on-1s). Identify topics that appear 3+ times across different meeting types. Note the context each time it surfaces.
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Map stated priorities vs. time allocation — What does the founder say matters most? Then measure: across all recent meetings, what percentage of time was actually spent on each priority? Flag large gaps (e.g., "product-market fit is #1 priority" but only 15% of meeting time goes to customer discovery).
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Identify unresolved decisions — Look for topics that were debated, discussed, or brought up across multiple meetings but never reached a clear conclusion or decision. These are often the biggest blind spots.
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Assess company stage and calibrate coaching framework — Determine if the company is pre-seed, seed, Series A, Series B, or growth stage. Adjust coaching emphasis: pre-seed founders need PMF validation urgency; seed-stage founders need repeatable growth systems; Series A+ founders need scaling organizational structures.
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Surface contradictions — Highlight instances where the founder or team says one thing in one meeting and another thing in a different meeting. Example: "We need to focus and say no" in a strategy meeting, then immediately discussing three new product initiatives in the next day's standup.
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