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Decide your first hires: the founder-time audit that reveals the real bottleneck, role scoping for generalists, and the hire-vs-contract call.
Scope my next hire(s). Situation: {{situation}} (team today, what's breaking, where my week actually goes: {{founder_time}}, cash available).
Work: the founder-time audit first (from my week: what am I doing that someone cheaper/better could — and what am I NOT doing that only I can? the hire should buy back founder leverage, not just add hands), the bottleneck test (which single role unblocks the most: revenue-generating vs capacity-adding at MY stage), the role scoped for reality (early hires are generalists with a spike — the spike I need, the breadth I expect, seniority honestly: who thrives in ambiguity at this salary), hire vs contract vs automate for each candidate role, and the 90-day success definition per role (if I can't define it, I'm not ready to hire it). Verdict: the ONE hire, the comp range sanity check, and what I stop doing the day they start.
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