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Launching SoloCEO: An experiment to give solo founders the decision support I never had.

For the past few years I’ve been building businesses alone — no co-founder, no advisors, nobody to sanity-check decisions that could make or break the month.

What I learned the hard way:

Most solo founders don’t fail because of effort.
They fail because they’re forced to make big decisions with zero structure.

Pricing.
Offers.
Deals.
Overwhelm.
Firefighting.
Chaos.

So I built a system to help with that.

It’s called SoloCEO — a set of structured AI tools that turn messy founder problems into clear decisions you can act on.

Not brainstorming prompts.
Not content templates.
Actual decision engines with a fixed structure (diagnosis → plan → risks → next step).

Before launching, I gave the entire system to GPT, Grok, and Claude and asked them to independently review it.

The interesting part?
They agreed on almost everything — strengths, weaknesses, SaaS potential, and risks.

🔹 They said the tools are genuinely useful
🔹 They said the structure is the real differentiator
🔹 They said the market pain is real
🔹 They said this can evolve into a SaaS OS with memory + workflows
🔹 They also hit weaknesses hard (overlapping tools, copy/paste friction, etc.)

I merged all three reviews into one transparent report:

👉 [Your link]
(Free. No email. Just the raw analysis.)

I’d love feedback from this community:

Is this solving a real founder problem?

Does the ecosystem make sense?

Is the premium Board Engine priced correctly?

What would you expect in a SaaS version?

Would you use this? Why / why not?

I’m building this in public and want to get it right.

Happy to answer anything about the tools, the AI evaluations, or the roadmap.

on December 6, 2025
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