🚀 100 AI Prompts for Startup Founders — Strategy, Growth, Fundraising & More
Explore 100 powerful AI prompts designed for startup founders. From fundraising emails to go-to-market strategies and product ideas, this library helps you move faster, think clearer, and ship smarter. Filter by category, copy instantly, and level up your founder workflow.
🚀 Founder Prompt Library — AI Prompts for Startups
A curated library of AI prompts to help startup founders move faster — from pitching and validating ideas to building products and hiring teams. Search, filter, and copy any prompt to get started instantly.
💡 Validate a Startup Idea
"Help me validate this startup idea: [describe idea]. Who's the target customer, and what problem are we solving?"
📢 Generate a One-Sentence Pitch
"Write a one-sentence pitch for my startup that clearly explains what we do and who it's for. Startup: [insert idea]."
📈 Go-To-Market Strategy
"Help me design a go-to-market plan for our new B2B SaaS tool. Include early user acquisition, messaging, and launch tactics."
🧪 MVP Feature List Generator
"What are the must-have features for the MVP version of this product? [describe product or idea]"
🧑💼 First Key Hires
"Based on our product and traction, who should be our next 2 hires and why? [describe startup stage and goals]"
💰 Startup Financial Projections
"Generate simple 12-month revenue and expense projections for a SaaS startup charging $20/month/user. Include assumptions."
📊 Investor Deck Outline
"What should we include in a pitch deck for seed-stage investors? Provide slide titles and a short description for each."
⚙️ Productivity Stack for Founders
"Recommend a productivity tool stack for a solo founder building and launching a B2C product."
🧠 Competitor Research Report
"Summarize the top 3 competitors in this space: [industry]. Highlight pricing, positioning, and weaknesses."
🎤 Elevator Pitch Generator
"Write an elevator pitch I can say in 20 seconds about my startup idea: [insert idea]. Keep it concise and compelling."
📣 Early Traction Channels
"What are the top 3 traction channels I should test first for a B2C mobile app with no existing audience?"
🧪 Feature Prioritization Matrix
"Use the RICE framework to prioritize these 5 features for our MVP. [List features]. Return a score for each and explain."
💬 Customer Interview Questions
"Give me 7 interview questions to ask potential customers about their pain points and how they solve them today."
📋 Job Description Generator
"Write a job description for a founding full-stack engineer at a seed-stage startup. Emphasize flexibility, ownership, and product collaboration."
📈 Break-Even Calculator Prompt
"Calculate when we’ll break even if we charge $29/month, acquire 100 new customers/month, and spend $5,000/month on ops."
🛠️ Internal Tools Stack
"Suggest a modern internal tool stack for managing CRM, team chat, task tracking, and analytics — optimized for a 5-person startup."
📄 Executive Summary Draft
"Draft a one-page executive summary for a startup raising pre-seed. Include problem, solution, team, traction, and ask."
🔍 Market Sizing Analysis
"Estimate the TAM, SAM, and SOM for a startup offering remote bookkeeping to solo founders. Make assumptions clear."
📬 Cold Outreach Script
"Write a cold DM or email to reach out to a potential early user. Make it brief, value-focused, and friendly."
💸 Investor Follow-Up Email
"Write a follow-up email to an investor we recently pitched. Reiterate our traction and invite them to lead the round."
📊 Growth Levers Audit
"Based on our product and audience, what are the 3 most promising growth levers to focus on this quarter?"
🧪 Feature Adoption Plan
"Create a launch and adoption plan for a new feature we’re rolling out to existing users."
💬 Onboarding Plan for First Hire
"Draft a 1-week onboarding plan for our first operations hire. Keep it lean but structured."
📉 Burn Rate Tracker Prompt
"Help me calculate our monthly burn rate based on team size, tools, and ad spend. Return total + runway remaining."
🧘 Weekly Founder Review Ritual
"Design a weekly review ritual for me as a founder to reflect on goals, blockers, metrics, and wins."
📉 Reduce Churn Playbook
"What are the top churn reduction strategies we can test for a B2B tool with 3-month drop-off risk?"
🔀 Pivot Exploration Generator
"Suggest 3 pivot directions we could explore based on our current traction and user feedback. Product: [insert product]"
👥 Culture Principles Draft
"Write 5 culture principles for a remote-first startup. Make them unique, memorable, and not generic fluff."
📬 Monthly Investor Update
"Draft a monthly investor update email that includes key wins, KPIs, asks, and product updates. Keep it scannable."
🧭 Co-Founder Alignment Exercise
"Suggest 5 alignment questions I should discuss with my co-founder to ensure we’re on the same page this quarter."
🧠 Fundraising Strategy Prompt
"Help me decide whether to raise pre-seed now or keep bootstrapping. Summarize pros and cons based on these factors: [insert details]."
🚀 Launch Copy for New Feature
"Write a 3-line announcement post for LinkedIn and email to promote our new feature: [describe feature]."
💵 Pricing Model Comparison
"Compare 3 different pricing models for a SaaS platform (flat rate, tiered, usage-based). Recommend the best fit for a small team tool."
📢 Viral Loop Strategy
"Suggest a viral referral or invite mechanism we could embed into the product to drive organic growth."
📆 Weekly Team Meeting Agenda
"Generate a 30-minute team sync agenda for our startup. Include metrics, blockers, and decisions."
🧠 Startup Idea Brainstorm
"Generate 5 startup ideas for a solo technical founder interested in B2B SaaS. Prioritize high-margin problems."
📋 Internal Product Roadmap Summary
"Summarize our next 3 months of planned product improvements. Organize by month and include internal notes for the team."
📉 Revenue Forecast Model
"Build a basic revenue forecast for our next 6 months. Start with 50 users at $25/month and a 10% monthly growth rate."
🗣️ Anticipate Investor Questions
"List the top 10 questions investors are likely to ask during our next fundraising round. Include tips for answering each."
🎯 Target Investor List Prompt
"Help me create a list of 10 ideal pre-seed investors based on our vertical (e.g. climate tech) and geography. Prioritize aligned funds."
📊 Metric Review Prompt
"Review our current KPIs and suggest 3 we should double down on for sustainable growth. Include why each matters."
🧭 Founder Mental Models
"What are 5 mental models or decision-making frameworks founders should use when navigating uncertainty?"
🧘 Founder Support System
"Design a weekly founder wellbeing system — routines, reflection questions, or check-ins — to avoid burnout."
🌍 International Expansion Playbook
"We’re expanding into [region]. What 5 factors should we validate before going live, and how should we localize onboarding?"
🤝 Advisory Board Setup Prompt
"What’s the best way to structure an advisory board for an early-stage SaaS startup? Include ideal profiles and equity norms."
🧪 Feature Sunset Email
"Write a short and clear message to users letting them know we’re removing a feature. Make it empathetic and transparent."
📚 Learn from Failed Startups
"Give me a list of 5 common reasons similar startups have failed and what we can proactively do to avoid them."
🚀 Activation Funnel Fix
"Suggest 3 UX or messaging improvements we can make to improve user activation after signup for our tool."
📂 Due Diligence Checklist
"Create a due diligence checklist of everything we’ll need to prepare before signing a term sheet. Include docs, metrics, and legal basics."
📊 Revenue Breakdown by Segment
"Break down our MRR by customer segment and suggest where to focus upsell efforts based on ARPU trends."
💳 Payment Infrastructure Comparison
"Compare Stripe, Paddle, and Lemon Squeezy for our SaaS billing needs. Prioritize fees, MoR coverage, and flexibility."
📈 Pricing Sensitivity Questions
"Give me 5 questions to include in a pricing survey to understand willingness to pay and ideal price points."
💰 SaaS Valuation Estimator
"Estimate the valuation range for a SaaS startup doing $40k MRR with 20% MoM growth. Base on market comps."
📅 Fundraising Timeline Planner
"Map out a 12-week fundraising timeline with weekly goals, including investor outreach, pitch prep, and follow-ups."
👀 Hiring Signal Decoder
"Give me 5 red or green flags to look for when reviewing early employee applications. Focus on builders and generalists."
🧪 Trial Task for First Hire
"Create a small, paid take-home task to assess problem-solving and initiative in our first marketing hire."
🔑 First 90 Days Plan Template
"Write a simple 90-day onboarding success plan for a new customer success lead. Include goals and milestones by month."
🏗️ Team Org Chart Prompt
"Draft a lean team org chart for the next 12 months as we scale to $100k MRR. Prioritize product, ops, and GTM roles."
🤔 Compensation Philosophy Draft
"Write a 2-paragraph compensation philosophy for a remote-first startup — how we approach equity, salary, and transparency."
🧠 Pitch Critique by Investor Lens
"Critique this one-minute pitch from the perspective of a seed investor. What’s missing or weak? [insert pitch text]"
📉 Sensitivity Analysis Prompt
"Perform a sensitivity analysis on our revenue forecast. What happens if churn increases by 20% or CAC rises?"
⚖️ Build vs Buy Framework
"Should we build this internal tool or buy a SaaS solution? Use a decision matrix to evaluate pros and cons."
🏢 Remote Team Culture Strategy
"Design a strategy for reinforcing startup culture in a 100% remote team scaling from 5 to 25 people over 12 months."
🗺️ Product Vision Narrative
"Write a product vision doc that paints the 3-year future of our product. Inspire the team and align everyone on direction."
📈 Identify Growth Bottlenecks
"Analyze our current funnel and highlight the weakest stage for growth. Suggest 3 experiments to unblock it."
📁 Deal Room Prep Checklist
"Create a checklist of what to include in a deal room before sharing with serious investors. Prioritize speed, clarity, and trust."
🔀 Strategic Moat Generator
"Based on our product and data, what kind of defensible moat could we develop — brand, community, tech, data?"
🧩 Problem Stack Expansion
"Based on this core customer pain point, brainstorm 3 adjacent problems we could expand into solving next."
💼 Financial Stack Review
"Audit our current financial tooling stack — accounting, invoicing, payments, forecasting. Recommend upgrades or simplifications."
📣 Create a Waitlist Campaign
"Design a viral waitlist campaign for our upcoming launch. Include landing page copy, referral incentive, and email sequence."
💬 Turn Support Tickets into Features
"Review these support requests and group them into product improvement ideas. Prioritize by urgency and impact."
🧠 Behavioral Interview Questions
"Give me 5 behavioral interview questions to uncover how a candidate handles ambiguity, ownership, and feedback."
🔁 Referral Loop Copy Generator
"Write in-product referral copy and CTA for a user who just had a great result (e.g., sent a proposal, closed a deal, got feedback)."
📉 Cancel Feedback Analyzer
"Help me analyze 20 user cancellation notes. Group them by reason and suggest product or messaging changes."
🌐 Positioning Across Segments
"Rewrite our core positioning message for 3 different audiences: solo creators, small agencies, and enterprise buyers."
🎯 Use Case Expansion Ideas
"Suggest 3 new use cases we could build for that naturally extend from our existing product and user behavior."
🔧 Bug Report Triage System
"Create a system for triaging bug reports — categorize by severity, frequency, and assign clear next actions."
🧩 Productivity Workflow for Founders
"Design a weekly planning system to help a founder stay focused on top goals, avoid busywork, and stay accountable."
🧯 Risk Map Generator
"List the top 5 risks to our startup's survival in the next 6 months. Categorize by product, funding, team, and external market."
📣 Launch Story Outline
"Write the narrative we should use in our launch campaign. Include our 'why now', founder backstory, and user problem we solve."
🧑💻 Async Interview Task Generator
"Generate an async interview challenge for a customer support hire. Focus on tone, resourcefulness, and documentation."
📄 Product FAQ Draft
"Write a product FAQ for new users. Keep it friendly and helpful. Focus on onboarding and misconceptions."
🔐 Founder Salary Philosophy
"Draft a clear explanation of our approach to founder compensation. Include early-stage philosophy and what triggers changes."
🔍 Competitor Reaction Forecast
"If we launch [feature/product], how are our top 3 competitors likely to react? Suggest their next moves and how to respond."
🎯 Market Positioning Pyramid
"Help us define our market positioning using a pyramid: category, audience, brand promise, proof, and emotion."
⚙️ Low-Code Automation Stack
"Recommend a low-code stack (e.g. Zapier, Airtable, Notion) we can use to automate repetitive workflows at our startup."
🔍 Category Creation Playbook
"Help us outline a strategy to define a new product category. Include messaging frameworks, storytelling anchors, and examples of startups that succeeded by framing themselves as something entirely new. Base suggestions on our product: [insert product info]."
👥 Role Clarity Matrix
"Design a simple 'role clarity matrix' that maps responsibilities across our 4-person founding team. The goal is to prevent overlap, reduce confusion, and clarify who owns what across product, growth, ops, and fundraising. Make it visual and actionable."
🚧 User Friction Audit
"Help us identify the top 5 moments of friction in our onboarding experience. Analyze our signup → activation → aha journey, and suggest micro-improvements that reduce drop-off, improve clarity, or delight users unexpectedly."
📉 Budget Reforecast Scenario
"Given that we're now expecting lower growth and possibly no fundraising for 6–9 months, help us reforecast our budget. Create a lean scenario with reduced hiring, extended runway, and still maintaining core momentum on product + growth."
🧭 Strategic Narrative Builder
"Write a compelling strategic narrative for our startup that we can use across investor pitches, blog posts, and internal all-hands. It should combine our mission, market insight, shift in customer behavior, and why our timing is right — all in 4–6 short paragraphs."
🗓️ Founder Time Audit
"Design a lightweight time audit system for me as a founder. I want to log and reflect on where my hours go, what’s high vs low leverage, and how I can delegate more effectively. Keep it simple enough to repeat weekly."
📐 Product-Led Growth Flywheel
"Based on our product and user base, design a product-led growth flywheel. Show how value creation, activation, and virality reinforce each other. Suggest levers at each stage to amplify the loop."
📬 Cold Outreach Template Pack
"Write a set of 3 cold outreach email templates — one for investors, one for early users, and one for potential advisors. Each should be concise, personalizable, and focused on value, not hype."
📊 Weekly Growth Report Generator
"Build a format for our weekly growth report. It should include top-line metrics, key experiments, learnings, blockers, and next week’s focus. Bonus: make it easy to copy-paste into Notion or Slack."
🛠️ Product Feedback Survey
"Write a short product feedback survey with 5 smart questions to send to our first 100 users."
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