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Identify the critical underlying insights about your customers and how they use products.
Define your product's core features, functionality, and requirements in a clear, actionable way to be used as a prompt.
List essential tools/software needed to build, launch, and operate your product effectively.
Visualize your user's journey and prioritize features by mapping their tasks, goals, and pain points throughout their experience with your product.
Uncover insights and assumptions that you make have missed out on.
Turn a fuzzy hunch into a crisp “who / struggle / why-now” statement.
State whether this is invention or scale play and how that changes your idea and assumptions.
Generate 20 intentionally “bad” ideas to surface surprising good ones
Reduce the problem to fundamentals and rebuild solution logic without unwarranted assumptions.
Generate two short paragraphs: life before vs. after your product.
Determine what you’re unbundling or rebundling and the user barriers you remove.
Choose a narrow, high-pain beachhead; define use case and why users would choose your product.
Generate 1-3 Political, Economic, Social, Tech, Legal, Environmental shifts that enable your idea.
Identify and profile the specific individuals or organizations most likely to buy your product or service.
Create detailed profiles of your potential target customers based on your startup and market.
Create structured questions and conversation flow for customer interviews to validate your assumptions and gather insights.
Analyze your target customer's complete decision-making process from problem awareness to purchase completion.
Define the 3–5 questions you must answer about users, pains, and context each month.
A library of neutral openers and laddered probes for deeper insight during customer interviews.
Define roles (user, champion, budget holder, security, legal), decision rights, and possible timelines for potential B2B buyers.
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Map direct and indirect competitors in your market, analyzing their strengths, weaknesses, and positioning.
Define the exact category you’re in, close substitutes, and adjacent businesses you might collide with.
Identify forces (tech, regulation, behavior) that increase or decrease demand for your product in the future.
Identify calendar or economic cycles that affect demand for your product.
Discover common myths about your category and contrast with proven insights.
List emerging tech/regulatory/social trends, theit likely impact, and early indicators to watch out for.
Develop various pricing strategies, and structure based on your product and market dynamics.
Learn simple tests on price levels to improve revenue without hurting conversion.
Decide between a freemium plan or a trial according to your business and market needs.
Define a low price plan that brings in users while nudge them towards higher tiers.
Suggest international price points that round cleanly, include a small FX buffer, and respect local willingness-to-pay.
Create an A/B test for pricing and define success metrics.
Analyze whether you have the right mix of background, skills, and personal connection to solve the problem your startup addresses.
Catalog your top skills relevant to your market and where they map to today’s needs.
Determine risk level you’re willing to assume according to your runway and fallback income options.
Identify likely cognitive biases you have and checks to limit them.
Define values that matter in your chosen market and how align with your personal ethics.
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Expand your one-sentence pitch by answering why now is the right time, why you're the right team to execute, and including a specific ask for investment, partnerships, or feedback.
Check your pitch deck to ensure it covers essential information with clear visuals and persuasive messaging.
Structure your pitch narrative with clear problem setup, solution introduction, market opportunity, and compelling call-to-action that creates emotional engagement.
Anticipate obvious concerns, weaknesses, or questions that investors will raise about your startup based on your pitch deck.
Evaluate each slide's effectiveness in answering investor questions with clear data, compelling narrative, and clarity.
Create a one-sentence pitch using the Founder Institute format to clearly communicate your startup's core elements and grab listener attention quickly.
Sequence feature development priorities with timelines, resource requirements, and metrics aligned to your startup's goals.
Identify the most critical customer problems your product must solve to drive meaningful user adoption and growth.
Standardize hypothesis, metric, sample needs, and kill rule for product tests.
Establish changelog format, and channels to build trust and momentum.
Rank ideas by impact, confidence, and effort with a simple, repeatable rubric.
Write 5–7 decision rules that guide tradeoffs and keep the product coherent and relevant.
Create comprehensive ownership documentation showing current equity distribution, option pools, and projected dilution scenarios for future funding rounds.
Secure all foundational legal documents including articles of incorporation, bylaws, and governance agreements that structure business operations.
Propose fair founder equity splits based on role, time risk, cash risk, and prior IP, with various scenarios for comparison.
Translate key terms into plain English.
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Identify the critical positions your startup needs to fill first based on business priorities, skill gaps, and growth requirements over the next 12 months.
Create specific assignments that allow candidates to demonstrate skills and fit before making hiring decisions.
Design systematic processes that ensure new hire productivity while establishing clear expectations and performance standards.
Turn a basic organizational requirement into a concise, candidate-friendly JD that attracts the right people.
List channels, communities, and messages to reach qualified candidates fast for each role.
Create a simple referral ask with examples, rewards, and follow-up steps for your team.
Set transparent salary and equity ranges by level according to your startup's structure and market position.
Create a list of questions to interview potential candidates to assess their competency and team fit.
Brainstorm and document specific strategies to increase acquisition through new channels, partnerships, or marketing approaches.
Define aggressive revenue goals with specific metrics based on your vision, market and opportunity.
Set specific, time-bound growth targets with clear success criteria to maintain strategic focus and accountability for you and your team.
Choose a single metric that reflects your startup's value along with a clear definition.
Identify low-effort, high-impact changes across product, pricing, or messaging to lift user activity immediately.
Discover high intenet downloads or tools to engage potential users.
List high-fit partners, the value exchange, and potential co-marketing tests.
Learn about quantitative indicators that measure how well your product satisfies target customer needs and drives growth.
Identify and define the critical metrics that directly measure your startup's progress.
Choose one metric that best captures delivered value and list actions that drive it.
Identify recurring user behaviors that indicate habit formation.
Write one paragraph explaining who loves you, why, and the proof points.
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Define the critical questions and information you'll present to advisors to maximize their input on funding, hiring, and growth plans.
Map out your startup's complete financial needs over 24 months, including operational expenses, hiring costs, and growth investments required to reach key milestones.
Compile targeted investors who match your stage, sector, and geography with their investment criteria, and portfolio fit.
Catalog all documents and materials investors will request during due diligence.
Articulate “why now, why us, why this market” to reduce perceived risk and unify your pitch narrartive across emails, meetings, and deck.
Define the specific evidence (revenue, users, margins) needed to unlock the next round.
Lay out an email template and follow up sequence for cold outreach to potential investors.
Discover venture debt/revenue-based options, and grants suited to your startup.
Assess your startup's competitive position, financial health and scability to determine investor readiness.
Define principles you’ll lead by based on your personal values and market.
Write a short story of where you're going, why it matters, and what you expect from the team.
Create a lightweight framework for important decisions and when to escalate.
Define meeting system for your team with purpose, input, outcomes, and timebox.
Outline a repeatable 1:1 agenda and expected outcomes.
Set a repeatable agenda and expected outcomes.
Track how you spend the week and group time into deep work, shallow work, meetings, and life.
Determine one system a single tools for tasks and notes based on your needs.
List small automations to free up time and energy for important tasks.
Discover sources to follow for key market news and information.
List possible recurring distractions and a counter for each.
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Create three different value propositions for your startup to test them.
Document viable marketing channels that align with your target customer behavior and budget.
Map the complete path from awareness to purchase decision, identifying friction points and optimization opportunities.
Evaluate your current messaging, and market positioning to identify optimization opportunities.
Define your who, the core problem, and your offering so every asset says the same thing.
Create openers tailored to your product and audience to win the first 3 seconds.
Plan weekly posts with goals, formats, and channels.
Turn a single YouTube transcript into a set of pieces ready to be posted on social media.
The Prompt Library is designed for early-stage founders, solo builders, and aspiring entrepreneurs who want to optimize their workflows and accelerate how they learn.
You can use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. The choice depends on your personal preference and each works well.
Start by adding your chosen prompt and replacing only the required inputs highlighted in green. You can then customize it further based on the output you want or ask follow up questions after the initial answer is generated.
In most cases yes. However, large language models can sometimes produce inaccurate information called hallucinations. Always fact check important outputs before using them.
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