Made for Founders
Decide What Deserves Attention Now
Also useful for: people in Founders
40 min
Advanced
Decisions
Make a Decision
Need to Make a Decision
Rank competing company priorities and turn limited time, cash, and leadership capacity into a clear attention plan.
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Use this when
Your company has more important work than available capacity, several decisions appear urgent, or the leadership team needs a clear call on what moves now.
You'll need
- Decision horizon
- Primary company objective
- Competing priorities
- Constraints and commitments
- Scoring context
You'll get
- A scored and ranked list of every competing priority
- A do, delegate, defer, or stop assignment for each item
- No more than three immediate company priorities
- A named tradeoff for every selected priority
- A review date or trigger for every deferred decision
- Critical assumptions and missing evidence clearly marked.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A scored and ranked list of every competing priority
- A do, delegate, defer, or stop assignment for each item
- No more than three immediate company priorities
- A named tradeoff for every selected priority
- A review date or trigger for every deferred decision
- Critical assumptions and missing evidence clearly marked.
Sample
This is sample data, not your prompt. Pro unlocks this higher-stakes Playbook. On Free Playbooks you can still copy the assembled prompt into any AI.
Sample input
Decision horizon: Next 30 days Primary objective: My main objective is to improve retention enough to support a credible seed extension. Priorities: Fix onboarding drop-off, hire a sales lead, rebuild billing, launch an enterprise pilot, and prepare a fundraising deck. Constraints: I have nine months of runway, two engineers with 60% available capacity, and a pilot commitment in six weeks. Scoring context: Billing failures affect 8% of renewals. Onboarding activation fell from 48% to 34%. The sales pipeline is early, and no sales candidate is near an offer.
Sample assembled prompt
Top attention call: 1. Fix onboarding drop-off - Do. High customer and retention impact, high... 2. Stabilize billing failures - Do. Direct renewal and cash-flow risk with... 3. Define the enterprise pilot scope... Keep the commitment moving without allowing... Defer: Sales lead hire until the... Review when qualified pipeline reaches the... Stop for this horizon: Full fundraising... Build only the core metrics update... Key tradeoff: No broad feature expansion...