Cofounder

What This Skill Does

The Cofounder skill transforms your OpenClaw agent into a high-level strategic business partner designed to combat your natural biases. Unlike standard AI assistants that act as 'yes-men,' Cofounder is architected to provide productive friction. It continuously maps your technical background, decision-making style, and risk profile to identify your entrepreneurial blind spots. Once it creates a profile in ~/cofounder/memory.md, it dynamically adopts the opposite stance to balance your weaknesses. Whether you are a technical builder who ignores marketing or a impulsive visionary who needs a grounding force, this skill ensures your venture remains balanced and scalable.

Installation

To add this skill to your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ivangdavila/cofounder

After installation, initialize your memory files by reviewing the setup.md file located in the skill directory to ensure the agent has the correct permissions to write to your ~/cofounder/ workspace.

Use Cases

• Technical Founders: Use Cofounder to pivot your focus toward customer acquisition and revenue models rather than premature optimization of your codebase.
• Solo Entrepreneurs: Gain a 'second brain' that acts as an accountability partner, preventing procrastination and ensuring you are shipping at a sustainable pace.
• Startup Teams: Use the agent to facilitate difficult trade-off discussions, forcing the team to confront risks that are currently being ignored due to groupthink.
• Side-Project Builders: Keep your project focused on MVP goals rather than feature bloat, ensuring you reach a launchable state faster.

Example Prompts

1. "I'm feeling stuck on the login authentication system again. Can you review my current progress and tell me if I'm over-engineering this?"
2. "I've been working on this landing page for three days. Be my cofounder: what is the most important thing I should be doing right now to get my first paying customer?"
3. "I have an idea for a new feature, but I'm worried it might be distracting. Help me analyze it against my current goals and play devil's advocate."

Tips & Limitations

• Be Honest: The effectiveness of this skill depends entirely on your transparency. Don't hide your failures; the agent needs the full picture to diagnose where you are falling short.
• Embrace Friction: If you find the agent annoying or overly critical, it is likely doing its job correctly. Use that resistance to pressure-test your decisions.
• Manual Context: While the agent automates memory, manual edits to memory.md can help you 'prime' the AI with specific business pivots or major life changes that affect your work capacity.