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Workflows & guides

WorkflowTested

Turn a Forrester-Style AI Business Case into a Revenue-Tied Memo Your CFO Won't Reject

Best for Founder & Operator

You're a founder or operator pitching an internal AI initiative — a copilot, an agent, a workflow bot — to a CFO or board who've been burned by pilots that…

Founder3-4 hours per business case
WorkflowTested

Build a Manager's AI-Replacement Post-Mortem: Paste a Workforce-Automation Plan, Get a Risk-Rated Lessons Report

Best for Founder & Operator

You're a founder or COO staring at a workforce-automation plan — your own draft, a consultant's deck, or a competitor's leaked memo — and you need to know…

Founder3-4 hours per workforce-automation review
WorkflowTested

Build a One-Page AI ROI Case: Translate Your AI Spend Into Business Outcomes With Prompts

Best for Founder & Operator

Founders and operators need to defend their AI spend on a single page — for a board deck, an investor update, or a leadership offsite. The story has to tie…

Founder3 hours per board update
WorkflowTested

Draft an EU AI Act Agent-Disclosure Compliance Statement from Your Deployment Notes

Best for Founder & Operator

You ship an AI agent — a chatbot, a voice assistant, an outbound emailer, something that talks to humans — and some of those humans are in the EU. Article 50…

Founder3 hours per compliance statement
Workflow · Field guideTested

The prompt rewrite: turn three weak prompts into keepers (Day 2 of the 30-Day Challenge)

Best for Founder & Operator

Take three prompts you actually use — an email ask, a research ask, a summary ask — and rebuild each with the six-part anatomy: role, context, task,…

Founderthe third re-roll of every bad answer
Workflow · Field guideTested

Build an assistant that knows your work: Custom GPT / Claude Project setup (Day 19 of the 30-Day Challenge)

Best for Founder & Operator

Build a no-code assistant grounded on your own documents and instructions — a Custom GPT or a Claude Project — and prove it beats vanilla chat on your real…

Founderre-explaining your context in every single chat
Workflow · Field guideTested

Messy notes in, decisions out: the meeting workflow (Day 10 of the 30-Day Challenge)

Best for Founder & Operator

Turn raw meeting notes — fragments, typos, half-sentences — into a structured record: agenda covered, decisions made, risks raised, owned next steps. This is…

Founderthe 20 minutes after every meeting
Workflow · Field guideTested

Your first automation: form → AI summary → draft → spreadsheet, step by step (Day 22 of the 30-Day Challenge)

Best for Founder & Operator

Build the challenge's first automation end to end in Zapier: a form submission triggers an AI summary, drafts a reply email, and logs a spreadsheet row. This…

Founderone recurring 15-minute chore, forever
Workflow · Field guideTested

Build your Email Prompt Bank: five prompts that handle 80% of your inbox (Day 8 of the 30-Day Challenge)

Best for Founder & Operator

Build the five email prompts you'll reuse daily — reply, follow-up, summary, tone-shift, hard conversation — and save them as your Email Prompt Bank. This is…

Founder30–45 minutes of inbox time a day
WorkflowTested

Draft an Investor-Update Email from a Metrics Snapshot and Last Month's Update

Best for Founder & Operator

You send a monthly investor update. You have this month's metrics in a spreadsheet or dashboard, last month's email in your Sent folder, and 45 minutes…

Founder60-90 minutes per month
WorkflowTested

Build a working app from a plain-English spec (Lovable / Replit Agent / v0)

Best for Founder & Operator

You don't need an engineer to get a working version of your idea anymore — you need a clear one-page spec and an AI builder that turns it into a real,…

Foundera developer's first afternoon of setup
WorkflowTested

Turn Raw User-Interview Notes into a Prioritized Problem Statement for the Next Sprint

Best for Founder & Operator

You just wrapped five customer calls for the week. You have a wall of messy notes and a sprint planning meeting Monday. You need one crisp problem statement…

Founder2-3 hours per sprint cycle
Workflow · VideoRecommended first

I Built a Full SaaS With Claude Code Max in 11 Minutes

Best for Founders, indie hackers, and startup builders

Go from SaaS idea to functional prototype using AI coding, backend services, payments, and UI generation.

FounderClaude CodeSaaS MVPstartup prototypingCurated
Workflow · Video

Building Beautiful UIs in Minutes with Claude Code and Stitch

Best for Founders and product builders

Turn product ideas into interface concepts and usable front-end assets with AI-assisted UI design and coding.

FounderClaude CodeStitchUI designCurated
Workflow · Video

Claude Cowork Can NOW Build Your PowerPoint! Full Walkthrough

Best for Founders preparing investor, sales, or strategy decks

Use AI to generate and refine presentation decks for fundraising, sales, internal updates, and strategy communication.

FounderClaude CoworkPowerPointfounder decksCurated

Tool briefs

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna API

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna dropped to $0.20 per million tokens. Founders, read this before you rip and replace.

Computer Use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash's computer use, judged by a founder's calendar

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