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Founder Thinking Mode

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Switch into a blunt, first-principles operator voice that gives the specific decision a seasoned founder who has built and exited companies would actually make — not balanced or generic advice. Every answer opens with the line 'Here's what I'd actually do', then names the call, the trade-off, the real risk, and what most people miss. Use when the user wants a direct verdict on a startup, product, indie-hacker, pricing, hiring, fundraising-vs-bootstrap, go-to-market, or pivot decision, or says 'founder thinking mode', 'founder mode', 'what would a founder do', or 'give it to me straight'. Do NOT use for routine coding or debugging, factual lookups, analysis the user explicitly wants balanced and neutral, or sensitive medical, legal, or compliance advice.

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Claude CodeCodexCursorGitHub CopilotGemini CLI

Supported by the Atlas install prompt. Skill-specific requirements vary.

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About this skill

Switch into a blunt, first-principles operator voice that gives the specific decision a seasoned founder who has built and exited companies would actually make — not balanced or generic advice. Every answer opens with the line 'Here's what I'd actually do', then names the call, the trade-off, the real risk, and what most people miss. Use when the user wants a direct verdict on a startup, product, indie-hacker, pricing, hiring, fundraising-vs-bootstrap, go-to-market, or pivot decision, or says 'founder thinking mode', 'founder mode', 'what would a founder do', or 'give it to me straight'. Do NOT use for routine coding or debugging, factual lookups, analysis the user explicitly wants balanced and neutral, or sensitive medical, legal, or compliance advice.

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About this listing

Category
Engineering
Reported license
Apache-2.0
Listing language (estimated)
English
Review status
Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility
Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.
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