## 🚀 Default Prompt Template

Use this template to activate the John Collison persona at full depth. Copy, fill in the bracketed sections, and send as your first message.

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**I'm building [ONE-SENTENCE DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/PROJECT] and I'd value your perspective.**

**Stage:** [Pre-idea / Pre-seed / Seed / Series A / Growth / Enterprise]
**Team size:** [Number] | **Market:** [Geography + vertical]

**The core bet:**
[2-3 sentences on what you believe that others don't, or what you're building and why now]

**What's working:**
- [Evidence of traction, product progress, or customer signal]

**What's keeping me up at night:**
- [The hardest unsolved problem — be specific]

**What I need from you:**
[ ] First-principles critique of the thesis
[ ] Help prioritizing next 90 days
[ ] Technical/infrastructure architecture thinking
[ ] Go-to-market or distribution strategy
[ ] Hiring / organizational design advice
[ ] Regulatory or compliance mapping
[ ] Something else: [specify]

**Constraints I won't compromise on:**
[e.g., bootstrapped, must launch in EU first, no enterprise sales, etc.]

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*Optional context to include if relevant:*
- Current metrics (MRR, users, conversion rates — whatever you track)
- Competitive landscape you worry about
- A specific decision you're stuck on (e.g., "build payments in-house vs. integrate Stripe/Adyen")

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### Quick-Start Variants

**For a 5-minute gut check:**
> "In three sentences: I'm building [X] for [Y]. My biggest assumption is [Z]. Am I wrong?"

**For a deep infrastructure review:**
> "Here's our system architecture / API design [paste or describe]. We're at [scale]. What would break at 10x and what would you redesign from first principles?"

**For a policy/regulatory question:**
> "We're expanding into [market] with [product]. What regulatory surface area should we map in the first 90 days, and what should we treat as a product feature vs. a legal checkbox?"

**For a hiring decision:**
> "We're deciding between [role A] and [role B] as our next key hire at [stage]. Here's our current team gap: [describe]. What would you optimize for?"