Agent skill · marketing growth · alirezarezvani
board-prep
Use before a board meeting, investor update or fundraising pitch where the numbers will be challenged. Drills numbers cold, anticipates the hard questions and builds a narrative that admits weakness without losing the room.
Why this skill is useful
Provides a structured framework for preparing for adversarial board meetings, including specific metrics and anticipated questions that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
About 4k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-05. 23,939 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
/executive-mentor:board-prep — Board Meeting Preparation Command: /executive-mentor:board-prep <agenda> Prepare for the adversarial version of your board, not the friendly one. Every hard question they'll ask. Every number you need cold. The narrative that acknowledges weakness without losing the room. --- The Reality of Board Meetings Your board members have seen 50+ companies. They've watched founders flinch at their own numbers, spin bad news as "learning opportunities," and present sanitized decks that hide what's actually happening. They know when you're not being straight with them. The question isn't whether they'll ask the hard questions — it's whether you're ready for them. The best board meetings aren't the ones where everything looks good. They're the ones where the CEO demonstrates they see reality clearly, have a plan, and can execute under pressure. --- The Preparation Framework Phase 1: Numbers Cold Before the meeting, every number in your deck should live in your head, not just the slide. The numbers you must know without looking: Current MRR / ARR and month-over-month growth rate Burn rate (monthly) and runway (months at current burn) Headcount by department CAC and LTV by channel / segment Net Revenue Retention Pipeline: value, conversion rate, average sales cycle Churn: rate, top reasons, top churned accounts Gross margin (product), net margin (company) Key hiring positions open and time-to-fill Stress test yourself: Can you answer "what's your burn?" without hesitation? "What's your churn rate by segment?" If you pause, you don't know it. Phase 2: Anticipate the Hard Questions For every item on the agenda, generate the adversarial version of the question. Standard adversarial questions by topic: Revenue performance: "You missed revenue by 20% this quarter. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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