Founder Context Intake Interview
A structured founder interview that probes vague answers and produces a dated one-page company profile for all later advisory work.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
That sounds useful for getting Claude up to speed on your business. You'd want to document key information like your company mission, the problem you're solving, your target market, revenue model, and team structure. Some founders also include their current growth metrics and strategic priorities. It might help to write a few paragraphs summarizing each area, and then Claude can reference that context whenever you use advisor skills. Do you have any existing company documentation I could build from?
FOUNDER ONBOARDING INTERVIEW Capturing context across 7 dimensions: 1. CORE MISSION & VALUES Q: What problem do you solve and why does it matter? A: We help mid-market marketing teams reduce content waste by 40% through AI-driven channel selection. 2. REVENUE MODEL & PRICING Q: How do customers pay and what's your current ARR? A: SaaS subscription, $500-2000/month per agency, $1.2M ARR, targeting $5M in 24 months. 3. COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE Q: Who are your top 3 direct competitors and your differentiation? A: Hootsuite (broad but outdated), Buffer (simplistic), our edge is ML-driven channel matching with real-time performance. 4. CUSTOMER PROFILE Q: Describe your ideal customer avatar. A: Marketing directors at 50-500 person agencies, 3+ years experience, manage $500K+ in client ad spend. 5. GO-TO-MARKET & TRACTION Q: How are you acquiring customers and what's your current CAC/LTV ratio? A: LinkedIn outreach + partner channel, CAC $8K, LTV $42K, 11-month payback. 6. TEAM & ROLES Q: Core leadership and their responsibilities? A: 2 founders (product, sales), 1 engineer, 1 customer success, hiring for data science. 7. 90-DAY STRATEGIC FOCUS Q: What's your top priority? A: Close 5 enterprise pilots to validate product-market fit and inform Series A positioning. Saved to: ~/.claude/company-context.md All advisor skills now reference this automatically.
About this skill
Advice is only as good as the facts behind it. This skill interviews you the way a sharp new advisor would, then writes a one-page company profile every later conversation can start from.
What it does
- Interviews one section at a time: model, customers, numbers, team, product, competition, priorities
- Probes vague answers once for specifics ("growing fast" becomes MRR then and now)
- Computes runway, growth, and customer concentration from your inputs and flags contradictions
- Asks before recording sensitive details, and generalizes them if you prefer
- Runs a quarterly refresh that captures only what changed
What you get
A dated one-page company profile with sources on every number, open items with who can confirm them, and on refresh a change table.
Best for
Founders and CEOs starting to use AI advisors who are tired of re-explaining their business or getting generic advice.
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