founder-coach

What This Skill Does

Founder Coach is a sophisticated AI-powered mentor designed specifically for startup founders. It moves beyond generic business advice by focusing on the 'meta-game' of entrepreneurship: your cognitive frameworks and decision-making architecture. Using the Socratic method, the coach helps you identify, challenge, and overcome the cognitive traps that often hinder startup success. By integrating directly with your local files, it creates a living record of your mental growth, tracks your progression through Product-Market Fit stages using the 4Ps and NFX frameworks, and provides accountability through personalized weekly challenges.

Installation

To integrate Founder Coach into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/goforu/founder-coach

Upon initial run, the skill will conduct a 5-7 question onboarding process to understand your current startup stage and psychological profile. It will then generate a local manifest at ~/PhoenixClaw/Startup/founder-profile.md to store your progress, mental model history, and challenge data.

Use Cases

• Mindset Refactoring: Use this when you feel stuck or notice yourself engaging in excuse-making or fear-driven behavior rather than data-driven decision making.
• Strategic Alignment: Apply the 4Ps framework (Persona, Problem, Promise, Product) when pivoting or struggling to gain traction with new customer segments.
• Accountability Tracking: Set a weekly rhythm where the AI proposes a specific mental model to practice (e.g., 'The 11 of 13 Rule') and an actionable business task, then review your adherence in a Sunday status report.
• Self-Discovery: Use the Socratic questioning feature to pressure-test your assumptions about your startup's growth and competitive landscape.

Example Prompts

1. "I'm feeling like we're burning out on feature requests without hitting real growth. Can you walk me through the 4Ps framework to help me re-evaluate our current focus?"
2. "I think I'm stuck in a 'Rational Prison' regarding our current pricing model. Can you ask me some challenging questions to help me break out of this perspective?"
3. "Set my weekly challenge: I want to focus on improving our Product-Market Fit. Give me one mental model to apply and one concrete action for this week."

Tips & Limitations

• Trust the Socratic Process: The coach is designed to avoid giving you the 'correct' answer immediately. Embrace the questions; they are designed to unlock your own intuition.
• Keep Files Updated: The skill relies on your local ~/PhoenixClaw/ directory. Ensure you don't delete or move these files, as they track your long-term evolution.
• Be Vulnerable: The AI is more effective when you are honest about your fears and uncertainties. It uses these to detect anti-patterns early.
• Limitations: The skill is a tool for cognitive development, not a replacement for legal, financial, or technical due diligence. Always treat its outputs as strategic prompts for your own final judgment.