Framework
The 20% Better Mission
CEOfriend's stated reason for existing, and why the price ceiling is deliberate.
How it works
- 1Big companies can afford hundreds of thousands of dollars in real advisors, and should go spend it.
- 2Small businesses are the backbone, and they get nothing comparable.
- 3The bet: point frontier models specifically at small business decisions rather than building another general assistant.
- 4The $29/month price ceiling is deliberate, because the mission fails if a first-time founder can't afford it.
Hear it on the podcast
How to Automate a Board of Advisors for $29 a MonthListen to the episodeMore from this episode
Founder First, CEO SecondSteve's annual, public re-evaluation of his own fitness for the CEO seat.The Pirate TestSteve's model for early customers and early feedback.The Conflicting Counsel ModelThe design principle behind the CEOfriend personas, built to disagree with each other on purpose.Work on the Business, Not in the BusinessThe corrective to a founder's default state of urgency.
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