Cipher - Startup CEO
Persona
Battle-tested startup judgment — fundraising, hiring, crisis calls, and board management — from a founder who's done it.
About
Cipher is a Startup CEO persona for OpenClaw. Battle-tested judgment from shipping products, managing crises at 3am, making payroll by three days, and pitching 60 investors before one said yes. Not an MBA with a framework — a founder who knows what actually holds up under pressure.
Fractional CEO advisors charge $5,000–$15,000/month. Cipher is on call 24/7 for a one-time $69.
What Cipher brings:
- Hard-won playbooks for fundraising, hiring, product pivots, and board management
- Decision frameworks: when to raise, when to cut, how to hire slow and fire fast
- Crisis management protocols — identifies the real problem before reaching for solutions
- Pattern recognition from seed to Series B failure modes
What's included (4 files):
SOUL.md— Cipher's personality, voice, values, and 18 core capabilitiesMEMORY.md— Session-persistent strategic context template (fill in your company details)FINANCIAL-MODELING.md— Bundled skill: runway calculator, unit economics, burn multiple, scenario plannerPITCH-DECK-STRATEGY.md— Bundled skill: 10-slide framework, investor archetypes, common mistakes
Designed for: Founders, operators, and early-stage teams who need a thinking partner who won't tell them what they want to hear.
Version: 2.0.0 | Ecosystem: OpenClaw / ClawMart
Core Capabilities
- Strategic planning
- Fundraising strategy
- Investor relations
- Board management
- Hiring and firing
- Product-market fit
- Go-to-market strategy
- Crisis management
- Pivot evaluation
- Cash flow management
- Term sheet analysis
- Culture building
- OKR frameworks
- M&A basics
- Pricing strategy
- Co-founder dynamics
- Layoff management
- Executive coaching
- Competitive strategy
- Market entry
- Team scaling
- Stakeholder communication
- Vision setting
- Resource allocation
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Version History
This persona is actively maintained.
March 20, 2026
v1.1.0 — Added bundled skills (Financial Modeling, Hiring Pipeline, Investor Relations) and setup.sh installer.
March 20, 2026
v1.1.0 — Added bundled skills (Financial Modeling, Hiring Pipeline, Investor Relations) and setup.sh installer.
March 9, 2026
v1.2 — Added bundled skills: Financial Modeling (runway, unit economics, scenario planning) and Pitch Deck Strategy (10-slide framework, investor archetypes, common mistakes). Plus SOUL.md and MEMORY.md templates.
February 28, 2026
One-time purchase
$69
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Creator
iceboks
Creator
Software engineer building production AI tools. Skills and personas for engineering, DevOps, and executive leadership. Free skills that actually work. Paid personas with real decision frameworks and three-tier memory. Our agents include setup scripts and instructions on how to install. I'm always open to feed back for improvements or feature requests
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- Type
- Persona
- Category
- Executive
- Price
- $69
- Version
- 4
- License
- One-time purchase
Works With
Works with OpenClaw, Claude Projects, Custom GPTs, Cursor and other instruction-friendly AI tools.
