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Define the advisor scope
Role before relationship label.
Made for Entrepreneurs
Ask Someone to Be an Advisor With a Script That Respects Their Time
Also useful for: Founders, Franchise Owners, Restaurant Owners, Small Business Owners, people in Entrepreneurship
25 min
Intermediate
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneur
Career outcome:
Develop a Valuable Skill
Ask with specific help, time bounds, and equity or cash that matches the role.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Busy operators ignore vague asks.
Your answers save as you type.
What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Draft the ask email
Short, specific, easy to forward.
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Prepare for the live conversation
They will negotiate scope.
04
Write the fallback and thank-you
No isn't a burn.
Make Your Play
Ask Someone to Be an Advisor With a Script That Respects Their Time
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Their relevant experience tied to your gap.
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Three to five concrete areas, not "general advice."
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Hours per month, sync vs async, term length.
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Equity, cash, both, or none with other value.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Define the advisor scope
Role before relationship label.
02
Draft the ask email
Short, specific, easy to forward.
03
Prepare for the live conversation
They will negotiate scope.
04
Write the fallback and thank-you
No isn't a burn.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
You identified someone whose experience fits a gap and you are ready to formalize, not just grab coffee.
You'll need
- Why this person specifically
- Help you need
- Time and format
- Comp you can offer
You'll get
- A an advisor ask email, scope proposal, and compensation options you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A an advisor ask email, scope proposal, and compensation options you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
Examples
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