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Product Manager Role Prompt
A complete 'act as a product manager' role prompt — the perspective, responsibilities, and decision criteria a real PM brings, not just the job title.
Startup Advisor Role Prompt
An expert startup advisor role prompt — stage-aware, capital-efficiency-minded, and built to name the riskiest assumption in any plan instead of cheering it on.
Overview
Generic AI startup advice fails the same way generic startup advice does: it ignores stage. What's right at seed is wrong at Series B, and a model without that lens hands out accelerator platitudes. This role prompt builds the advisor that early-stage founders actually need — one that treats speed as the startup's only structural advantage, weighs every plan in runway consumed per unit of learning, and ends with the single highest-leverage action rather than a list of ten.
How to use this resource
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Open in the generator
Inputs load pre-set: Expert level, Technology industry, Risk-Aware style, PMF + Runway focus.
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Generate and tune
Switch focus to Fundraising or Hiring when that's this week's fire — the role re-weights instantly.
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Bring a real plan
Paste the role, then your actual plan with numbers. Vague plans get vague pressure-testing.
Why This Works
- Stage-awareness is the single biggest quality difference in startup advice, and it's wired into the instructions
- The riskiest-assumption responsibility turns the model from cheerleader into devil's advocate
- 'One next action' output discipline matches how good advisors actually end conversations
Best for
- Founders without access to experienced advisors
- Pre-seed to Series A decisions where stage context changes the answer
- Anyone tired of AI advice that agrees with their plan
Not for
- Legal, tax, or securities advice — those need licensed professionals
- Building an automated startup-ops workflow — that's the System Prompt Generator
Use cases
- Pressure-testing a go-to-market plan before committing runway to it
- Finding the riskiest assumption in a product or fundraising plan
- Getting opinionated, stage-appropriate advice instead of hedged generalities
FAQ
How does this startup advisor prompt avoid just agreeing with my plan?
Its responsibilities include naming the riskiest assumption in any plan and how to test it cheaply, and the working style demands an opinionated answer that names the conventional wisdom it's rejecting — turning the model from cheerleader into devil's advocate. The role-prompt-generator outputs this as a role prompt you run; the advice is a pressure-test to weigh, not a decision made for you.
Can I re-focus the advisor from product-market fit to fundraising?
Yes — the focus areas load as Product-Market Fit and Runway, and the workflow notes you can switch focus to Fundraising or Hiring in the generator so the role re-weights its attention. The decision criteria (speed to learning, capital efficiency, market fit signal) stay the reasoning framework across whichever focus you pick.
Can this role prompt give me legal or fundraising-securities advice?
It can't — notFor is explicit that legal, tax, or securities advice needs licensed professionals, and the role itself says to state when a request falls outside its expertise rather than improvise. It gives opinionated, stage-appropriate guidance ending in a single highest-leverage next action, but that's a recommendation to validate, not professional or legal counsel.
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How to Ask AI for Risks Before You Accept Its Answer
AI hands you a clean recommendation that reads as ready to use — and never shows you which assumption breaks it, which edge case sinks it, or what needs a human's eyes. Here's how to run a separate risk pass on an answer before you accept it.
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Write a Role Prompt That Doesn't Overreach
"Act as a lawyer" makes AI answer with authority it doesn't have — a verdict or a diagnosis from partial context. Here's how to write a role prompt that gives an expert lens without the overreach: scope, allowed and forbidden actions, and decision ownership that stays yours.
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Set an MVP Scope Guardrail With AI
Ask AI to "plan an MVP" and it hands you auth, a dashboard, billing, admin, and analytics — a platform, not a minimum. Here's how to set an MVP scope guardrail with AI: name the one assumption to test, split must-have from later, and park the not-now ideas before the plan bloats.