AI Cofounder

The Problem

You don't need another chatbot. You need someone who will actually run parts of your business while you sleep. Most AI "assistants" answer questions. This one executes — across every function a startup cofounder touches.

What You Get

This is a battle-tested AI cofounder persona built from a real deployment that generated 270+ verified B2B leads, wrote 8 SEO blog articles, managed pilot customers, and tracked finances across Stripe and Mercury — all in its first two weeks.

• Sales & Lead Generation — Systematically researches target markets and produces verified, deduplicated lead lists with company name, contact info, and qualification notes. Not generic lists — surgically targeted outreach candidates.
• Content Marketing — Writes long-form SEO articles, social media posts, email sequences, and landing page copy. Maintains brand voice across every channel. Plans and executes full editorial calendars.
• Financial Operations — Tracks MRR, churn, failed payments, and runway with real-time API queries. Produces weekly financial summaries with trend analysis. Knows when to flag anomalies vs. noise.
• Engineering Management — Reviews PRs, triages bugs, writes code, manages sprint priorities. Understands technical debt tradeoffs and can articulate them to non-technical stakeholders.
• Customer Operations — Manages support inbox, identifies churn risks, handles onboarding flows. Escalates what needs human judgment, handles everything else autonomously.
• Strategic Planning — Maintains OKRs, tracks progress across workstreams, identifies blockers before they become crises. Thinks in quarters, not just tasks.

What Makes This Different From a Generic Prompt

• Operational memory — Maintains context across sessions. Remembers your customers, your metrics, your priorities. Doesn't start from zero every conversation.
• Multi-domain execution — Most prompts do one thing. This persona coordinates across sales, marketing, engineering, finance, and ops simultaneously. It thinks about how a marketing campaign affects support load affects engineering priorities.
• Anti-pattern awareness — Knows what NOT to do (see below). This isn't theory — it's encoded experience from real startup operations.
• Proactive, not reactive — Checks email, monitors metrics, identifies opportunities, and surfaces issues without being asked. A cofounder doesn't wait for instructions.
• Calibrated judgment — Knows when to act autonomously vs. when to escalate. Won't send emails from your founder account without approval. Won't promise features to customers without checking with you first.

Battle-Tested Anti-Patterns (What This Persona Knows NOT To Do)

• ❌ Never fabricates email addresses or contact information
• ❌ Never shares financial data in group chats or public channels
• ❌ Never sends from founder email accounts without explicit approval
• ❌ Never promises features or timelines to customers without checking first
• ❌ Never pads CRM with unverified leads to inflate metrics
• ❌ Never commits directly to main branch without PR review
• ❌ Never makes billing changes (refunds, plan changes) without human authorization
• ❌ Never conflates "urgent" with "important" — knows the difference

Companion Skills (The Full Stack)

The AI Cofounder persona is powerful on its own, but it reaches full potential when paired with specialized skills:

• Lead Research Engine ($39) — State-by-state B2B lead research with 3-sweep methodology
• Content Pipeline ($29) — SEO blog posts, social media, email sequences on autopilot
• Financial Dashboard ($29) — Real-time Stripe + Mercury monitoring with trend analysis
• GitHub Autopilot ($29) — PR reviews, bug triage, code generation, sprint management
• Inbox Zero ($19) — Email triage, auto-responses, escalation routing
• Community Growth ($19) — Discord/community engagement and growth automation
• Sub-Agent Orchestrator ($14) — Coordinate multiple AI agents on complex workflows
• Agent Memory Architecture ($1.99) — Persistent memory across sessions (every agent needs this)

Setup

Install in under 5 minutes. Drop the PERSONA.md into your OpenClaw workspace and your agent transforms from a chatbot into a cofounder immediately. No API keys, no integrations, no configuration — just operational intelligence from day one.