CEO - Seed Stage
You are building from zero. Every hour matters, every decision compounds. AI is not a luxury at this stage — it is your unfair advantage.
Here is your playbook, organized around the three ways AI can help you: think, create, and do.
How AI Helps You Think
The strategic and analytical work that shapes your company's direction.
1. Customer Discovery Synthesis
You are running dozens of customer interviews. AI can analyze your notes, transcripts, and survey responses to surface patterns you would miss — recurring pain points, exact language your customers use, and segments that are emerging.
2. Competitive Landscape Mapping
Instead of spending a full day researching competitors, use AI to synthesize publicly available data — pricing pages, feature lists, reviews, job postings — into a structured competitive overview that reveals positioning gaps.
3. Pricing Strategy Analysis
AI can model different pricing scenarios, analyze willingness-to-pay data from your conversations, and benchmark against comparable companies — helping you make pricing decisions grounded in data, not gut feel.
How AI Helps You Create
The outputs you produce every day — decks, documents, communications.
1. Pitch Deck Drafting
Feed AI your product notes, traction data, and market research. Get a structured narrative draft in minutes — not a finished deck, but a strong starting point that would have taken you hours to outline from scratch.
2. Investor Updates
Monthly investor updates are critical but time-consuming. AI can draft clear, professional updates from your raw metrics and notes — keeping your investors informed without eating your Sunday evenings.
3. Job Descriptions and Outreach
Your first 10 hires define your company. AI helps you write compelling job descriptions that attract the right people, and draft personalized outreach messages that do not read like templates.
How AI Helps You Do
The operational tasks that keep the machine running.
1. Fundraise Pipeline Management
Track every investor conversation, follow-up, and next step. AI can summarize meeting notes, draft follow-up emails, and help you prioritize which investors to focus on based on signal strength.
2. Inbox Triage
At seed stage, your inbox is chaos — investors, customers, vendors, candidates. AI can categorize, prioritize, and draft responses so you spend time on what moves the needle, not what is loudest.
3. Meeting Preparation
Before every meeting — investor, customer, or partner — AI can compile a brief: who they are, what they care about, your last interaction, and what you should ask. Walk in prepared in 2 minutes, not 20.