CEO Assistant v2.0

Claude Code (recommended)

/plugin marketplace add sacredvoid/ceo-assistant

Your AI chief of staff for building and running a startup. CEO Assistant gives you 28 commands covering every stage from finding your community to fundraising, with real industry benchmarks, 14 financial calculators, and validated frameworks from YC, Sequoia, Bessemer, and a16z. Whether you're validating an idea against a 15-criteria scoring rubric, building your first MVP, or generating pitch decks with live market research, you get grounded outputs built on 200+ scraped sources and 13 industry verticals -- not generic advice.

New in v2.0 - The Minimalist Entrepreneur Playbook:

• 9 new commands from Sahil Lavingia's The Minimalist Entrepreneur, covering the full journey from community to sustainable growth.
• Find your community (/ceo-community) - identify communities you already belong to and evaluate which ones to serve.
• Processize before you productize (/ceo-processize) - turn any idea into a manual process you can start delivering today, before writing a line of code.
• Build your MVP (/ceo-mvp) - the three-stage path: manual, processized, productized. Ship in a weekend.
• First 100 customers (/ceo-first-customers) - the concentric circles strategy: friends, community, strangers. Manual sales first.
• Pricing strategy (/ceo-pricing) - cost-based vs value-based, the zero price effect, the math of financial independence.
• Marketing plan (/ceo-marketing) - content-first marketing through three levels: educate, inspire, entertain.
• Grow sustainably (/ceo-grow) - profitability as a superpower. Spend less than you make. Infinite runway.
• Company values (/ceo-values) - define culture before hiring. Values as stories, not slogans.
• Minimalist review (/ceo-review) - gut-check any decision against 8 minimalist principles.

v1.0 - The Analytical Toolkit (19 commands): Full validation with live market research, 14 financial calculators, competitive analysis, pitch decks, board updates, OKRs, hiring plans, legal checklists, and 12 decision frameworks. Built by scraping 200+ pages from IdeaProof.io, Carta, Bessemer, a16z, First Page Sage, and YC.

The combination: v1 tells you whether your idea is viable with data. v2 tells you how to actually build it with discipline. Use /ceo-validate to score your idea, then /ceo-processize to start delivering value by hand, then /ceo-first-customers to sell your way to product-market fit.

Installation

Claude Code Plugin (recommended)

/plugin marketplace add sacredvoid/ceo-assistant

Manual Install

git clone https://github.com/sacredvoid/ceo-assistant.git
cp ceo-assistant/commands/*.md ~/.claude/commands/

Then type /ceo-validate in Claude Code to validate your first idea.

Usage

/ceo-validate [describe your idea]
/ceo-processize [describe your product]
/ceo-first-customers

Use it for:

• Idea validation - "Score my SaaS idea for restaurant inventory management"
• Manual-first process - "How do I deliver this by hand before building software?"
• First customers - "Create my outreach plan for the first 100 customers"
• Financial modeling - "Calculate my runway, CAC, and break-even"
• Pitch decks - "Generate a Sequoia-format pitch deck with live research"
• Competitive analysis - "Who are my competitors and how do they compare?"
• Decision making - "Should I raise funding or bootstrap? Review this through the minimalist lens."

What It Does

1. Validates - Scores ideas against a 15-criteria weighted rubric with live market research, tar pit detection, and industry benchmarks
2. Plans - Generates lean canvases, go-to-market strategies, financial projections, and pitch decks
3. Executes - Walks you through manual-first processes, first customer outreach, pricing, and marketing
4. Operates - Tracks metrics, generates board updates, runs OKRs, and supports CEO-level decision making

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Example: Validate a SaaS Idea

Command: /ceo-validate AI-powered inventory management for independent restaurants

Output:

Viability Score: 72/100 - Moderate

| Category | Weight | Score | Weighted | |----------|--------|-------|----------| | Market Timing | 12% | 8/10 | 9.6 | | Market Size | 10% | 7/10 | 7.0 | | Problem Severity | 10% | 8/10 | 8.0 | | Competition | 8% | 5/10 | 4.0 | | ... (15 criteria total) |

Tar Pit Check: NOT a tar pit. Restaurant tech has historically been difficult (high churn, low willingness to pay), but AI-driven waste reduction is a genuine cost-saving proposition with measurable ROI, unlike "discovery" or "reservation" plays.

Competitors Found: MarketMan ($200/mo, Series A), BlueCart (acquired by US Foods), Lightspeed inventory module (bundled). Gap: none are AI-native for demand forecasting.

GO/NO-GO: CONDITIONAL GO - Strong problem severity and timing, but crowded market requires clear AI differentiation. Validate with 10 restaurant owner interviews first.

Three parallel agents ran live research on market size, competitors, and trends. The scoring rubric weighs 15 criteria across Market (42%), Competitive (16%), Financial (18%), Execution (12%), and Risk (12%) dimensions.

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Example: Processize Before Building

Command: /ceo-processize meal prep delivery service for busy parents

Output:

One-sentence description: You plan a week of kid-friendly meals, shop the ingredients, prep everything on Sunday, and deliver portioned containers to families by Monday morning.

The Magic Piece of Paper:

1. Trigger: Customer fills out a Google Form with family size, allergies, and preferences
2. Plan meals - Select 5 dinners from your tested recipe bank (30 min)
3. Generate shopping list - Map ingredients to quantities for all families (15 min)
4. Shop - Buy everything at one grocery run (90 min for 5 families)
5. Prep - Cook and portion into labeled containers (4 hours for 5 families)
6. Deliver - Drop off Monday morning with reheating instructions (60 min for 5 families)

Time per customer: ~75 min at 5 families/batch

Initial price: $149/week per family (5 dinners, 4 servings each)

First 3 people to deliver to this week:

1. Your neighbor with three kids who always complains about dinner
2. The parent from school pickup who mentioned hating meal planning
3. Post in your local parents' Facebook group

First thing to automate (not now): The shopping list generation - it's the most repetitive step

This shows the manual-first approach from The Minimalist Entrepreneur. No app, no code, no landing page. Just a Google Form, a grocery run, and a Sunday afternoon.

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Example: Financial Calculator

Command: /ceo-calc runway for my startup - $500K raised, $45K monthly burn, $12K monthly revenue

Output:

Runway Calculation

| Metric | Value | Health | |--------|-------|--------| | Cash on hand | $500,000 | | | Monthly burn (gross) | $45,000 | | | Monthly revenue | $12,000 | | | Net monthly burn | $33,000 | | | Runway | 15.2 months | Healthy (>12mo) |

Benchmarks (Seed Stage):

• Median seed burn: $50-80K/mo (you're below - good)
• Target runway post-raise: 18-24 months (you're at 15 - watch it)
• Default alive test: Revenue growing >15% MoM needed to reach profitability before cash runs out

Recommendation: At current trajectory, start fundraising conversations at month 9 (6 months before zero). If revenue grows 20% MoM, you hit profitability at month 11.

14 calculators available: ROI, TAM/SAM/SOM, Startup Costs, Funding, Break-Even, Runway, Valuation, CAC, LTV, Equity Dilution, Magic Number, Burn Multiple, SaaS Quick Ratio, Rule of X.

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Example: Minimalist Review

Command: /ceo-review Should I raise a $2M seed round? We have 80 paying customers at $49/mo.

Output:

Recommendation: Don't raise. Not yet.

The minimalist version: You have 80 customers at $49/mo = $3,920 MRR. You're close to ramen profitability. Raising $2M now means giving up 15-20% equity when you haven't proven you can get to 200 customers organically.

| Principle | Assessment | |-----------|-----------| | Community first | You have a community (80 customers). Stay close to them. | | Build as little as possible | Are you building features they asked for, or features you think VCs want? | | Sell before you scale | 80 customers is good. 200 is better. Can you get there with manual sales? | | Profitability is the goal | At $49/mo and 200 customers = $9,800 MRR. Is that enough? | | Reversible? | Raising is irreversible. Dilution is permanent. |

Biggest risk: Raising too early locks you into a growth trajectory that may not match your market's natural pace. Gumroad grew 15% in 2017, 25% in 2018, 40% in 2019 - patience paid off.

Try this week: Email your 80 customers and ask why they signed up. The answers will tell you whether to raise or sell your way to 200.

This combines v1's analytical framework with v2's minimalist principles, giving you both the data-driven and p