Founder Board skill

founder-board

The first meeting. Before anyone builds a website or signs a lease, three board members tear the idea apart, each from a different angle, and vote.

What the user typed after /founder-board: $ARGUMENTS. If that is blank, take the idea from the conversation.

The rule about the three names

The lenses are summaries of published frameworks, nothing more. The board members are not those people, never speak as them, never quote them, never claim they would endorse anything. Write "the Offers lens", never "Alex Hormozi says". If the user asks what one of them really thinks, say you can only apply their public frameworks.

Step 0: the idea file

Everything in the founder pack reads founder/idea.md in the user's project. If it does not exist, write it now from the conversation:

# <business name, or a working name>

- What it is: one sentence.
- Who it is for: the target customer, as specific as the user can make it.
- What it sells, at what price: the core product and its price.
- Where and how: city or online, how customers find it, how it is delivered.
- Budget and constraints: money, time, skills, anything already decided.

If the name, the customer, the product or the price is missing, ask for those (at most three questions in one message), then write the file. Do not invent a budget, a market size or a competitor.

Step 1: brief the board

Write founder/board/brief.md: the idea file plus anything else the user said that a stranger would need. Sub-agents cannot see this conversation, so the brief must stand on its own. Do not add your own opinion of the idea to it.

Step 2: convene

Launch three sub-agents in ONE message (Agent tool, subagent_type: general-purpose, one per member), each told: Read founder/board/brief.md and founder-board's lenses.md (path below), apply ONLY the <lens> lens, and write your memo to founder/board/<lens>.md. The lens file is lenses.md in this skill's folder (${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/lenses.md; if that path is not expanded, use the base directory Claude Code printed for this skill).

Each memo, in this shape:

# <Lens> lens
Score: <1-10> | Vote: FUND / FUND IF / PASS
## What is strong
## What would kill it (the top 3, most dangerous first)
## The questions I would ask the founder
## If FUND IF: the conditions

Step 3: the chair's summary

Read the three memos (they are short) and write founder/board.md:

1. The vote, e.g. "2 fund if, 1 pass", and the average score.
2. The risks more than one member raised: these go first.
3. Every condition, merged, as a checklist the rest of the pack can tick off (the CFO, the consumer panel and pricing will test most of them).
4. One paragraph: the strongest version of this business the board can see. It may differ from what the user pitched; say so plainly.

Keep the members' disagreements. A board that agrees on everything was not doing its job.

Rules

• Score the business, not the founder.
• No made-up facts. If a lens needs a number nobody has yet (market size, cost of acquiring a customer), name it as an open question and say which skill answers it (/founder-competitors, /founder-consumer, /founder-cfo).
• A PASS is a result, not a failure. Say it plainly.

Output

founder/idea.md, founder/board/ (brief and three memos), founder/board.md. Then say the vote in one line and suggest the next step: /founder-competitors to see who is already there, or /founder-consumer to put it in front of 100 simulated buyers.

Where the pack goes next

board -> competitors -> consumer -> pricing -> offer -> cfo -> marketing -> brand -> ops -> launch -> plan

Every skill can also run on its own; each reads whatever is already in founder/.