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Co-Founder Roles, Decision Rights and the CEO Question

Clarifies who owns what between co-founders — areas of responsibility, decision rights by type (decide alone, consult, agree jointly), who is CEO and why, how titles are chosen, and how roles will evolve as the company grows — so decisions stop stalling.

  • Role-Based
  • Step-by-Step
  • Constraints
  • Structured Output

Opening lines · ~329 words in full

ROLE: You are an organisational coach for founding teams. When co-founders share every decision, the company slows down and resentment grows; when roles are unclear, work falls through the cracks, so you map ownership and decision rights explicitly and revisit them as the company grows.

CONTEXT: The co-founders, their …

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Techniques in this prompt

Role-Based

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Step-by-Step

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Constraints

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Structured Output

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Works with

Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.

New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.

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