Founder playbooks

Ten standard operating procedures for the decisions solo founders make alone: validating an idea, setting a price, sizing a market, getting the first ten customers, and killing a venture without sunk-cost bias. Each one is a numbered procedure with a free tool embedded at the step where you need it. No account, no email gate.

SOP: Validate a SaaS idea in 7 days

A day-by-day procedure that ends with either a paying customer, a signed intent, or a decision to stop. No building.

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SOP: Kill a failing venture without sunk-cost bias

A written procedure for the decision you'll be worst at making in the moment. Criteria first, evidence second, feelings last.

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SOP: Pre-launch checklist for a solo founder

The things that actually have to be true before you launch — and the long list of things that don't, which is where launches go to die.

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SOP: Research and set your first price

Five steps from competitor teardown to a number you can defend — and the willingness-to-pay questions that produce real answers.

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SOP: Size a market without a research budget

Four steps to a market size you can defend in a room — built bottom-up from counts you can point at, then sanity-checked top-down.

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SOP: Get your runway and burn under control

Build a cash model you'll actually update, read the two numbers that matter, and know which lever to pull at which point.

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SOP: Name your startup and secure the domain

An afternoon procedure: generate, filter on the four things that actually cost money, check availability, buy, move on.

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SOP: Tear down a competitor properly

Buy the product, read the one-star reviews, map the pricing logic — and find the customer they've decided not to serve.

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SOP: Write landing page copy that converts

Steal the words from your customer interviews, write the headline last, and cut every adjective your competitors also use.

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SOP: Get your first 10 paying customers

Manual, unscalable, one at a time — and why doing it any other way at this stage teaches you nothing.

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