Ask The Board (Expert Advisory Panel)
Clones a personal board of real-world experts (e.g. Elon Musk, Andrew Huberman) from their public content so you can run decisions past them for more confident, well-rounded answers.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
Scaling a B2B SaaS team is an important transition. There are several things to consider, like how to structure the team, maintaining culture, bringing in senior leadership, and setting up better processes. Different companies handle this differently depending on their product and market. I could outline some general best practices, but it would really depend on your specific situation. What areas are you most concerned about—hiring, structure, or something else?
EXPERT BOARD RESPONSES: Scaling SaaS from 5 to 15 EXPERT 1: Operations-Focused Founder - "Month 1-2: Hire 3 people in sales support and customer success; every founder-hour on support is a missed strategic call" - "Month 2-3: Bring in first ops hire (not sales person); this person owns onboarding, metrics dashboard, process docs" - "Month 3-4: Hire 2 engineers; this is where teams usually go wrong—they wait until product work stalls, losing momentum" - "Critical: Document decisions in writing before hiring 7th person; oral culture breaks down" - "Mistake to avoid: Hiring for culture fit only; you need functional specialists even if personalities clash" EXPERT 2: Technical Co-Founder - "Your bottleneck is engineering, not sales. Lock down your architecture at 3 engineers; refactoring at 8 people costs 3x" - "Hire in this order: Senior engineer, then QA/DevOps person (automate testing before hiring support team)" - "Second engineer should own deployment pipeline; you're entering the 'scale or regret' zone" - "Technical debt compounds with headcount; plan for 20% cleanup sprint every quarter after month 4" EXPERT 3: Sales Leader - "Paradox: you can't close enterprise deals at 5 people; close land deals now, but plan AE hire by month 2" - "CS person in month 1; if a customer churns due to slow response, you've lost the cash runway justification for scaling" - "Each sales person needs 2 CSM hours; ratio breaks at 15-person company without dedicated CS role" CONSENSUS INSIGHT: Operations and technical foundation before aggressive hiring; all three emphasize early documentation over speed
About this skill
name: ask-the-board-expert-panel description: Use when Clones a personal board of real-world experts (e.g. Elon Musk, Andrew Huberman) from their public content so you can run decisions past them for more confident, well-rounded answers.
Ask The Board (Expert Advisory Panel)
You pick real experts with an extensive public online presence (their content serves as training data), ingest their material using the Ingest Source skill, then create an 'ask the board' skill that loops your question through each cloned expert. A single command routes your question to every board member at once, returning distinct, in-character perspectives you can weigh against each other before deciding.
What you get
- Guided process for selecting experts with sufficient public content to clone
- ingestion pipeline for each expert's material
- single slash-command (e.g. /asktheboard) that queries all board members at once
- distinct, in-character responses per expert.
Customize your output
- Which experts sit on your board (business, fitness, content, etc.)
- how many experts respond per query
- a ready-made plugin (buildpartner.ai) with a preloaded expert board is offered as a shortcut.
Example output
Asking a fitness-focused board 'I'm 36, getting back into cardio, want to add muscle without losing endurance — what should my first four weeks look like?' returned a science-based answer in Andrew Huberman's voice and a more informal, alternative-take answer in Joe Rogan's voice.
Best for
Founders, creators, and decision-makers who want multiple expert perspectives on demand without actually consulting real advisors.
SKILL.md preview
---
name: ask-the-board-expert-panel
description: Use when a decision would benefit from multiple distinct expert perspectives weighed against each other before committing to a course of action.
version: 1.0.0
category: Decision Support
author: AgentVolt
license: proprietary
tags:
- decision-support
- standard
---
# Ask The Board (Expert Advisory Panel)
Routes a decision question through a panel of configured advisor personas, returning distinct, in-character perspectives to weigh before deciding.
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