AI Prompts for Founders & Solo Operators
Pre-mortems, GTM stress tests, competitor teardowns, side-project autopsies, and the brutal-honest steelman of your own pitch. For founders who don't want to lie to themselves.
16 hand-crafted Originals · Free · No signup · Last reviewed April 2026
Top use cases
- Pre-mortems before major launches
- Competitor teardowns
- GTM stress tests
- Side-project autopsies
- Pitch deck audits
- Hiring decisions
Hand-picked Originals
Salary Negotiation Pre-Mortem
Every objection your boss will raise — and the exact sentence you should say back. Built by a negotiation strategist for your specific situa...
Anti-Bullshit Essay Grader
Line-by-line signal-vs-noise audit of any written piece. Red-flags every filler sentence. Rewrites it in half the words.
Legal Contract Red-Flag Scanner
Paralegal-grade contract review in 60 seconds. Flags every clause that needs lawyer attention. Notes what's missing. Ranks your top 5 negoti...
Steelman Devil's Advocate
The strongest possible case against your position. Honest, rigorous, no straw-men. Exposes your hidden assumptions and the one most likely t...
Dating Profile Surgeon
The ruthless-but-warm friend who actually tells you what your profile is signaling. Rewrites the worst sections in your voice at higher trut...
Pre-Mortem for Major Project
Imagines your project has already failed 6 months from now and works backward to identify the most likely failure modes.
Competitor Teardown
Honest analysis of a competitor's wedge, their tax, and the move they won't see coming. For founders who don't want to lie to themselves.
Energy Audit Weekly
Maps where your energy leaked and refueled last week — then picks the one change worth making next week.
Go-to-Market Stress Test
Finds the single load-bearing assumption in your GTM plan most likely to be wrong — and the $500 experiment to test it before you burn $500K...
Lifestyle Inflation Audit
Find the silent spending creep from the last 2 years — and the 3 categories where cutting back actually gives you your life back.
Style Archaeologist
Paste 3 writing samples. Get a voice spec sheet so precise any AI can write as you — and actually sound like you.
Book Recommendation Surgeon
Not a generic best-of list — three books that actually answer your specific question, which chapters to read, what to skip…
Family Visit Navigator
A pre-visit emotional strategy for the exact family dynamic you're walking into — what to avoid, what to initiate, and how to leave intact.
Presentation Stress Test
The 3 moments your audience will check out, the objections that will land hardest, and the one sentence that needs surgery before you go on ...
Side Project Autopsy
Your abandoned side project deserves a real diagnosis — not more guilt. Revive it, extract the valuable piece, or bury it with honors.
First-Day Diagnostic
The exact observations, questions, and relationships that decide whether your first 14 days build trust or quietly burn it.
How to use these prompts
- Click into any Original — read the example output FIRST.
- Copy the XML prompt block.
- Paste into ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini.
- Fill in the <input> tags with your specific situation.
- Run. The auto-intake feature catches missing fields.
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