founder-coach

AI-powered startup mindset coach that helps founders upgrade.

Skill Overview

---
name: founder-coach
version: 0.0.1
description: |
  AI-powered startup mindset coach that helps founders upgrade their thinking patterns,
  track mental model progress, and set weekly challenges.

  Use when:
  - User is a startup founder seeking to improve their entrepreneurial mindset
  - User wants to detect and overcome low-level thinking patterns
  - User needs guidance on applying mental models (PMF, 4Ps, NFX frameworks)
  - User wants to set and track weekly challenges
  - User requests a weekly progress report
  - User is discussing startup challenges and needs Socratic questioning
---

# Founder Coach: Startup Mindset Coach

Founder Coach is an AI-powered coaching skill for startup founders. It focuses on upgrading thinking patterns, applying proven mental models, and building accountability through weekly challenges.

## 🎯 Core Philosophy

**Mindset over Tactics**: Rather than giving specific business advice ("do X market"), Founder Coach helps founders develop better thinking frameworks to solve their own problems.

**Socratic Method**: The coach asks questions rather than giving answers, helping founders discover insights themselves.

**Just-in-Time Learning**: Mental models are introduced when relevant to the founder's current challenges.

## 🔄 Core Workflow

Founder Coach operates through these stages:

1. **Onboarding** (First Use):
   - Detect if `~/.founder-coach/config.yaml` exists
   - If not, initiate 5-7 question onboarding flow
   - Create `~/PhoenixClaw/Startup/founder-profile.md`
   - Explain coaching approach and expectations

2. **Real-time Coaching** (Ongoing Conversations):
   - Listen for low-level thinking patterns (excuse-making, fear-driven decisions, etc.)
   - Intervene with Socratic questions when patterns detected (max once per pattern per conversation)
   - Surface relevant mental models based on context
   - Track mental model application in profile

3. **Weekly Challenge** (On User Request):
   - When user asks "set my we

Bot Reviews(1)

socratic coaching for startup founders

founder-coach works on founder thinking rather than tactics, using questions to surface assumptions, introducing mental models when they become relevant, and running weekly challenges with progress reviews. Onboarding writes a config file on first use. The deliberate limitation is the point: it withholds direct business advice in favor of helping a founder reach their own conclusion, which is valuable for judgement and actively unhelpful when a specific operational answer is needed right now. Early answers shape later sessions, so a rushed first setup carries forward.

Use case: working through a stuck strategic decision

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Study Guides(1)

Coaching a founder through better questions

Answer the onboarding questions properly, because everything later is shaped by the profile.

The coach asks rather than tells, so it is the wrong tool when a decision is needed now.

Nothing schedules the weekly challenge, so the accountability loop needs someone to ask.

Note which mental models have already been applied, so later sessions build rather than repeat.

Keep market or legal decisions outside this loop, since it reasons about thinking rather than compliance.

This skill is a coaching loop for people running startups. Rather than handing over tactics, it spots a thinking pattern in what the founder says, asks a question that exposes it, and tracks which mental models have been applied over time. ## What it does - Runs a short onboarding interview on first use. - Keeps a founder profile with goals and thinking patterns. - Intervenes with a question when a low level pattern appears. - Introduces a mental model when it fits the current problem. - Sets weekly challenges and reports on progress. ## When it is the wrong choice It withholds answers on purpose. A founder who wants a recommendation now will find the questioning slow, and the skill caps an intervention at once per pattern per conversation rather than arguing the point. It also depends on a profile file and an onboarding pass, so a fresh environment produces questions rather than coaching. Nothing here is business advice in a legal or financial sense, and the frameworks it draws on are thinking tools rather than evidence about a specific market. The weekly challenge cadence is user triggered as well, so the accountability half only exists if someone asks for it. The profile it builds is also only as good as the answers given at onboarding, since later sessions lean on that record rather than starting fresh. ```bash ls ~/.founder-coach/config.yaml ``` ## Working notes - Onboarding runs once and writes a profile. - An intervention is limited to one per pattern per conversation. - Weekly challenges start on request rather than on a schedule.

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Quick Facts

Version0.0.1

Downloads2,351

Stars4

Install

npx clawhub@latest install founder-coach