executive-mentor

What problem does it solve?

This Skill acts as an adversarial thinking partner, stress-testing business plans, challenging critical assumptions, and preparing executives for difficult board meetings or decisions.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Assumption Stress Testing: Identifies and challenges core business assumptions (market size, revenue projections, competitive moat).
• Plan Vulnerability Analysis: Uses a pre-mortem approach to find weaknesses in strategic plans before they materialize.
• Board Meeting Preparation: Helps anticipate tough questions and craft narratives that acknowledge risks.
• Hard Decision Framework: Provides a structured approach for making difficult choices with no easy answers.
• Use Case: Before launching a new product, use /em:challenge to identify the riskiest assumptions in your go-to-market plan and /em:stress-test to validate your market size claims.

Quick Start

Use the executive mentor skill to stress test the assumption that our market size is $5 billion.