Solo Founder Weekly Plan
Plan a solo founder's week around the real bottleneck: three priorities with hour budgets, a not-doing list, and a Friday review.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
That's a tough question when you're solo. You have so many things you could work on—product development, marketing, sales, customer support. You probably want to focus on whatever will move the needle most for your business right now. Is your bottleneck customer acquisition? Product-market fit? Retention? It might help to think about which part of the business, if improved, would have the biggest impact. You could also think about what's blocking revenue or what your customers are asking for most. Do you have any revenue yet? That might help me understand where you're at in the journey.
SOLO FOUNDER: PRIORITIZATION WORKFLOW (repeatable monthly) STARTING POINT (July 31 snapshot) → Stage: Early revenue (12K MRR, 6 customers, 8 months in) → Team: solo (you) → Bottleneck signal: Which customer decision has you most stuck? (Assume: 2 leads in pipeline, neither responding) PRIORITY FRAMEWORK (5-question forced rank) 1. REVENUE DEFENSE: What's at risk this month? → Check: Do any current 6 customers have contract renewals? (Assume: 1 renewal pending, 18K annual) → Priority weight: Retention gets first 4 hours this month (demo prep, success call, prevent churn) 2. REVENUE GROWTH: Which 1 lever moves fastest? → Options: (A) Close those 2 pipeline leads = 4K MRR. (B) Launch new feature = hypothetical +2 leads. (C) Referral program = slow burn. → Pick A (closes this month, reduces uncertainty). Assign 8 hours to lead follow-up. 3. UNBLOCK PRODUCT: What's the smallest thing that unblocks revenue? → Customers asking for: Single-sign-on, better API docs, Slack integration → Which would close a deal? (Assume: API docs blocking one lead; 2-hour lift) → Assign: 2 hours, high ROI 4. OPERATING LEVERAGE: What takes 5 hours once and saves 3 hours/month forever? → Candidate: Billing automation, customer onboarding sequence, support workflow template → Pick: Onboarding sequence (assume 4 hours now; saves 1.5 hours per new customer) → Assign: 4 hours 5. LEARNING: What's your biggest unknown? → Assume: Why aren't prospects buying? (Product, price, competition, poor fit?) → Assign: 2 hours to customer interviews this month AUGUST CALENDAR (solo founder, 60 productive hours) → Revenue defense (retention): 4 hours → Lead follow-up (close pipeline): 8 hours → Product unblock (API docs): 2 hours → Operating leverage (onboarding): 4 hours → Learning (why prospects say no): 2 hours → Remaining 40 hours: 20 on new feature, 20 on customer support (reactive) VALIDATION (month-end check) → Did you close at least 1 of 2 pipeline leads? → Is renewal customer still committed? → What did customer interviews reveal? (feeds next month's prioritization)
About this skill
When you are the whole company, the scarce resource is your hours. This skill finds the one bottleneck that matters this week, budgets your real available time against it, and makes the cuts explicit.
What it does
- Asks for real available hours and plans to about 70 percent of them
- Finds the bottleneck using common solo-founder traps: building instead of selling, support overload, too many channels
- Limits the week to three priorities with observable done-by-Friday results
- Adds a not-doing list and one automate, delegate, or drop move
- Runs a Friday review that feeds next week
What you get
A one-screen weekly plan (bottleneck, metric, top 3 with hours, not-doing list, leverage move, schedule sketch), or a review of the week just finished.
Best for
Solo founders, indie hackers, and one-person agencies juggling product, sales, and support.
SKILL.md preview
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name: solo-founder-weekly-plan
description: Plan a solo founder's week from their real constraint - the one bottleneck metric, actual available hours, runway - into at most three priorities with hour budgets, an explicit not-doing list, and one thing to automate, delegate, or drop; or run the Friday review that feeds next week. Use when a one-person business owner says "plan my week", "I'm drowning, what should I focus on?", "everything feels urgent", "I keep building instead of selling", "weekly review", "what should I cut?", or "I have 20 hours this week, what matters?".
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