Founder Mode
Source-grounded pack with Founder Context Capture, Founder Decision Rights Reset, and Founder Leverage Audit, plus 1 more.
Get this packGrounded in the complete Founder Mode series.
Open the pack, choose a workflow, and follow its setup and input instructions. You can also open each workflow below.
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Use this pack when
Choose this pack when the work touches Founder Mode and you need a bounded workflow with explicit inputs, a defined output, and human review gates.
Choose the job in front of you.
4 source-grounded skills. Load one workflow at a time.
Founder Context Capture
Use this workflow when founder taste, customer memory, quality corrections, market pattern recognition, or uncomfortable reality remain trapped in one person's head and the company must convert repeated judgment into explicit standards, examples, evidence loops, decisions, and follow-through without turning preference into doctrine.
Output specification
Return a founder judgment transfer with judgment, customer_and_strategy_basis, constraints_and_tradeoff, current_evidence, standard_and_examples, reality_loop, decision_implication, owner, and independence_test.
Founder Decision Rights Reset
Use this workflow when a founder has hired executives but still makes the real decisions, has disappeared and allowed strategic drift, or repeatedly dives into detail at the wrong altitude and the company needs explicit outcome ownership, context, standards, inspection, escalation, and intervention rules.
Output specification
Return a founder delegation and altitude contract with authority_gap, outcome_owner, decision_classes, context_and_standards, inspection, escalation, altitude_rules, intervention_labels, and trust_expansion_review.
Founder Leverage Audit
Use this workflow when leadership must determine whether founder involvement is scaling standards, customer proximity, decision speed, delegation, altitude control, cadence, and reality contact or creating heroics, preference vetoes, executive bypass, chaos, stale judgment, fear, infinite surface area, and organizational dependency.
Output specification
Return a founder leverage audit with capability_diagnosis, category_scores, evidence, failure_modes, root_mechanisms, current_evidence_test, 30_day_change, and independence_measure.
Scaling Founder Rituals
Use this workflow when founder involvement arrives through emergencies, late-stage reviews, direct messages, or unstructured skip-levels and the company needs predictable customer, product, talent, metric, decision, narrative, and reality loops that preserve executive accountability and two-way truth.
Output specification
Return a founder operating cadence with loops, frequency, artifacts, executive_owners, founder_role, decision_scope, skip_level_protocol, follow_through, and prune_and_learning_review.
Keep consequential decisions explicit.
These workflows structure analysis and artifacts; they do not authorize autonomous external, personnel, financial, legal, security, or other high-impact action.