modbender Founder Coach 🎯
Your AI-powered founder accountability system.
A structured coaching framework for AI-era founders. Daily check-ins, decision journaling, weekly strategy reviews, and accountability tracking — all stored in your agent's memory.
Quick Start
# Morning check-in
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/founder_checkin.py morning
# Evening reflection
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/founder_checkin.py evening
# Weekly review
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/founder_checkin.py weekly
# View stats
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/founder_checkin.py stats
# View recent entries
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/founder_checkin.py history --days 7
🌅 Morning Brief Template
Use this every morning to set your day:
1. Yesterday Recap
- What did I commit to yesterday?
- What actually got done? (completion rate)
- What carried over and why?
2. Today's Top 3 Priorities
| # | Priority | Why it matters | Time block |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 3 |
Rule: If you can only do ONE thing today, which is it? That's #1.
3. AI Founder Question of the Day
Pick one to reflect on:
- "What manual process am I doing that AI could handle?"
- "Where is my moat — data, workflow, distribution, or brand?"
- "What's my cost-per-serve and how do I halve it?"
- "Am I building a product or a feature that GPT will add next quarter?"
- "What would a 10-person AI-native company do differently?"
🌙 Evening Reflection Template
Wins
- What went well today?
- What am I proud of?
Losses
- What didn't happen? Why?
- What would I do differently?
Tomorrow
- Top 3 priorities for tomorrow
- One thing to stop doing
- One thing to start doing
Energy Check
Rate 1-5: Energy [ ] Focus [ ] Motivation [ ]
📊 Weekly Strategy Review
Run every Sunday or Monday. Takes 30-60 minutes.
Performance
- Commitments made this week: ___
- Commitments kept: ___ (___%)
- Trend vs last week: ↑ / → / ↓
Key Metrics
| Metric | Last Week | This Week | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | |||
| Users/Customers | |||
| Key Feature Progress | |||
| Cost-per-serve |
Strategic Questions
Moat Analysis
- Data moat: Are we accumulating proprietary data? What data do we have that others don't?
- Workflow moat: Are we embedded in customer workflows? Switching cost?
- Distribution moat: Do we own a channel? Community? Brand?
- Speed moat: Are we shipping faster than anyone else?
Commoditization Risk
- Which parts of our stack are becoming commoditized?
- What happens when GPT-5 / Claude 4 / Gemini 3 drops?
- Are we building on top of APIs that could become competitors?
AI-Era Economics
- Cost-per-serve: What does it cost to serve one customer?
- Outcome-based pricing: Can we charge for outcomes, not seats?
- Marginal cost: Does our 1000th customer cost the same as the 1st?
- AI leverage: Where does AI give us 10x leverage vs humans?
Decisions Made This Week
| Decision | Context | Options Considered | Chosen | Reversible? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Next Week
- #1 priority (must happen):
- #2 priority (should happen):
- #3 priority (nice to have):
- One bet/experiment to run:
📓 Decision Journal Format
For important decisions, use this format:
## Decision: [Title]
Date: YYYY-MM-DD
Stakes: Low / Medium / High / Critical
### Context
What's the situation? Why does this decision need to be made now?
### Options
1. **Option A:** [description]
- Pro: ...
- Con: ...
- Cost: ...
2. **Option B:** [description]
- Pro: ...
- Con: ...
- Cost: ...
### Decision
Chose: [Option X]
Reasoning: [Why]
Reversible: Yes/No
Review date: [When to check if this was right]
### Outcome (fill in later)
Date reviewed:
Result:
Lesson:
📈 Accountability System
How It Works
- Morning: Set 3 commitments
- Evening: Mark complete/incomplete with notes
- Weekly: Review completion rate and patterns
- Monthly: Identify systemic issues
Scoring
- 90-100% completion: You're either crushing it or setting easy goals
- 70-89%: Healthy stretch zone
- 50-69%: Overcommitting or execution issues
- Below 50%: Stop. Fewer commitments. Execute on 1-2 things.
Patterns to Watch
- Always incomplete #3: You're overcommitting — do 2 things well
- Same item carrying over: It's either not important (cut it) or you're avoiding it (why?)
- High completion but no progress: You're busy, not productive — wrong priorities
- Energy always low: Burnout risk — take a break before it takes you
🤖 AI-Era Founder Questions Bank
Rotate through these in morning briefs:
Product & Moat
- What would this business look like if AI could do 80% of the work?
- Are we a thin wrapper around an API? How do we add defensible value?
- What proprietary data or feedback loops do we create?
- If OpenAI built our feature tomorrow, what would still be ours?
Economics
- What's our cost-per-serve and trajectory?
- Can we charge for outcomes instead of access?
- Where do margins come from when AI costs drop 10x yearly?
- What's our unit economics at 10x scale?
Competition
- What can a 3-person AI-native startup build in 3 months that competes with us?
- Where do we have distribution that new entrants don't?
- What switching costs have we built?
Personal
- Am I building a company or a project?
- What am I uniquely positioned to build that AI can't easily replicate?
- Am I spending time on $10/hr tasks or $1000/hr tasks?
- What would I do if I had 10x the resources? What about 1/10th?
Storage
All entries are stored in memory/founder-journal/:
memory/founder-journal/
├── 2026-02-15.md # Daily entries
├── 2026-02-16.md
├── weekly/
│ └── 2026-W07.md # Weekly reviews
└── decisions/
└── 2026-02-15-decision-name.md
Credits
Built by M. Abidi | agxntsix.ai YouTube | GitHub Part of the AgxntSix Skill Suite for OpenClaw agents.
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