Founder Office Hours (Rapid-Fire)
Bring a list of small founder questions: each gets a triaged 2-4 line answer and one next action, plus the pattern hiding across the list.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
That depends on several factors. Here are some things to consider: **Arguments for growing faster:** - Capturing market share before competitors - Network effects compound with scale - Easier to raise at higher growth rates **Arguments for growing more deliberately:** - Premature scaling is a leading cause of startup failure - Unit economics should work before you pour fuel on the fire - Culture and quality can suffer under rapid growth **Key questions**: Is your retention strong? Are your unit economics positive? Do you have product-market fit? Generally, if retention is strong and CAC payback is under 12 months, growing faster makes sense. What's driving the question?
That question can't be answered as asked. Six questions first — answer them and the growth question usually answers itself. 1. PROBLEM What specific problem, for whom, and how are they solving it today? "Faster" is meaningless until this is one sentence, not a category. 2. CUSTOMER Name three real customers who paid in the last 90 days. Not segments — names. What did all three have in common the week they bought? 3. DISTRIBUTION Where did your last 10 customers come from, and which of those channels can do 10× without your personal involvement? If the honest answer is "founder network," growing faster means finding a channel, not spending more. 4. DEFENSIBILITY If a funded competitor copied you exactly next quarter, what would still be true about you in 12 months? "Execution" is not an answer. 5. CAPITAL Months of runway. What does the next raise require you to prove, and does growing faster get you there or just burn the runway you'd need to prove it? 6. FOUNDER FIT Why you, and are you still the right person to run the version of this company that's 3× bigger? THE PATTERN TO WATCH FOR Most founders asking "should we grow faster" have a solid #1 and #2 and a weak #3. That's not a growth question, it's a distribution question, and pouring money into a channel that doesn't scale is the most common way this ends badly. Answer these and I'll draft the strategy brief.
About this skill
Founders collect small questions all week. Bring the whole list: each gets a straight answer and one next action, and you find out what the list says about the real bottleneck.
What it does
- Triages every question: answer now, depends on one fact, needs a real session, or skip
- Answers each in 2-4 lines with its reversibility and one concrete next action
- Reads across the list for clustering, avoidance, priority mismatch, and decisions someone else should make
- Names the single highest-leverage action for the week
- Keeps people questions conversation-first and legal or tax questions routed to the right expert
What you get
A numbered office-hours sheet: triage label, answer, next action per question, then the pattern, the one thing to do this week, and what to book a real session for.
Best for
Busy founders with a backlog of small decisions who want fast, committed answers.
SKILL.md preview
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name: office-hours
description: Run a fast founder office-hours session - take a batch of several small questions at once (pricing tweaks, a hire, a tool choice, an email to an investor, a feature request, whether to go to a conference), answer each in a few lines with one next action, flag the ones that need a real session, and spot the pattern or bigger problem hiding across the questions. Use when the user says "I have a bunch of quick questions", "rapid-fire", "office hours", "can I run a few things by you?", "quick gut checks on these", pastes a list of questions, or says "help me clear my decision backlog".
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# Founder Office Hours (Rapid-Fire)
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