Ceo Assistant

CEO Assistant - Office of the CEO

Your AI chief of staff for building and running a startup. Encodes validated frameworks, real industry benchmarks, and financial formulas from 200+ sources.

Slash Commands (18 active)

Capabilities

1. Idea Validation

Runs your idea through a 15-criteria weighted scoring rubric across Market, Competitive, Financial, Execution, and Risk dimensions. Produces a 0-100 viability score with industry-specific benchmarks. See docs/validation-scoring-rubric.md for the full rubric.

Process:

1. Describe your idea (one paragraph)
2. Identify target industry from 13 tracked verticals
3. Score against validation criteria
4. Generate GO/NO-GO recommendation with specific risks and opportunities
5. Suggest next validation steps (interviews, landing page, MVP)

Viability Score Interpretation:

2. Financial Calculators

14 calculators with real formulas and industry benchmarks. See financial-calculators.md for complete reference.

Quick formulas:

• ROI = ((Returns - Investment) / Investment) x 100
• CAC = Total S&M Spend / New Customers
• LTV = ARPU x Gross Margin x (1 / Churn Rate)
• Runway = Cash / Net Monthly Burn
• Break-Even Units = Fixed Costs / (Price - Variable Cost)
• TAM = Total Customers x Annual Spend
• Post-Money = Pre-Money + Investment
• Rule of 40 = Growth Rate% + Profit Margin% (target >= 40)
• Magic Number = Net New ARR This Q / S&M Spend Last Q (target > 0.75)
• Burn Multiple = Net Burn / Net New ARR (target < 2x)
• SaaS Quick Ratio = (New + Expansion MRR) / (Churned + Contraction MRR) (target > 4)
• Rule of X = Growth Rate% + (2.3 x FCF Margin%) (Bessemer's upgrade to Rule of 40)

3. Business Documents

Generates structured business documents from templates. See business-templates.md.

Available templates:

• Pitch Deck (Sequoia 10-12 slide format)
• Lean Canvas (1-page business plan)
• Business Model Canvas (9 blocks)
• Competitive Analysis (5-competitor matrix)
• Customer Persona
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Board Deck / Investor Update
• SWOT Analysis
• Financial Projections (3-year P&L)
• Validation Interview Script (Mom Test)

4. Industry Intelligence

Benchmarks for 13 industries. See industry-benchmarks.md.

5. Operations Frameworks

OKRs (Quarterly): Format: "I will [objective] as measured by [key results]"

• 3-5 objectives per quarter
• 3-5 key results per objective (quantitative, measurable)
• Target 60-70% achievement (stretch goals)

EOS Level 10 Meeting (Weekly, 90 min):

1. Segue - good news (5 min)
2. Scorecard review (5 min)
3. Rock review (5 min)
4. Customer/Employee headlines (5 min)
5. To-do list (5 min)
6. IDS: Identify, Discuss, Solve (60 min)
7. Conclude (5 min)

Rocks (90-day priorities):

• 3-7 per person, SMART formatted
• 80%+ completion target
• Review weekly, reset quarterly

6. Decision Frameworks

Funding Decision:

• Bootstrap if: want control, B2B/SaaS, can reach $1M+ ARR organically
• Raise if: winner-take-all market, need speed, targeting $100M+ exit
• Angel ($25-500K) for pre-seed/seed, VC ($500K+) for seed/Series A+

Build vs Buy:

• No-code for 80% of MVPs (<$10K, <8 weeks)
• Custom after validation and funding (>10K users, unique requirements)

Solo vs Co-founder:

• Solo for lifestyle/bootstrapped businesses
• Co-founder for venture-backed (2x better odds, VCs prefer teams)

PMF Signals (Sean Ellis Test):

• Survey: "How would you feel if you could no longer use [product]?"
• 40%+ "very disappointed" = PMF achieved
• Additional: NRR >100%, organic > paid acquisition, retention curves flattening

7. Startup Failure Prevention

Top reasons startups fail (from 1000+ failures):

1. No market need - 42%
2. Ran out of cash - 29%
3. Wrong team - 23%
4. Got outcompeted - 19%
5. Pricing/cost issues - 18%

Prevention checklist:

• Validated demand with 30-50 customer interviews
• TAM >= $10M with >10% annual growth
• Landing page conversion >2-5%
• LTV:CAC >= 3:1
• 18-24 months runway post-raise
• Clear competitive differentiation

Reference Files

Complementary Skills

For deeper methodology on specific topics, these external skills are recommended:

• wondelai/skills - 24 book-based frameworks (Lean Startup, Mom Test, Blue Ocean, EOS, etc.)
• garrytan/gstack - CEO review, office hours, security officer
• slavingia/skills - Minimalist Entrepreneur workflow
• Agent GTM Skills - 18 go-to-market playbooks