SKILL.md
Personal Board of Directors Skill
Good decisions survive five different kinds of scrutiny; most decisions get one (your own, on a good day). This skill convenes a standing board of five archetypes who each write a short memo, disagree where they honestly would, and vote — with the decision rule stated before the count.
What This Skill Produces
- Five advisor memos (~150 words each) in five genuinely different voices
- The disagreement map — where they split, and what fact would resolve each split
- The vote — with the decision rule declared first and what evidence would flip it
- The one question to answer before committing
Required Inputs
Ask for these if not provided:
- The decision — as a yes/no or A-vs-B; if it arrives vague ("should I do something about X?"), sharpen it into a decidable sentence first and confirm
- Stakes and reversibility — what's bet, and whether it can be undone
- Constraints — money, time, obligations, runway
- What the user is secretly hoping the answer is (optional — the board should know the bias it's correcting)
Framework: The Five Chairs
| Advisor | Lens | Their memo must contain | Their known bias (they self-disclose it) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Operator | Can this actually be executed, by you, now? | The first 2 weeks, resourced honestly | Overweights logistics, underweights vision |
| The Skeptic | Why this fails | The single most likely kill condition, dated | Kills some winners |
| The CFO | Unit economics of the choice | Real numbers from the input, or named missing ones | Discounts the unquantifiable |
| The Coach | Energy, growth, season of life |
