Audit Existing Team Capabilities and Operational Artifacts
The founder collects and audits current venture documentation, including equity splits, cap tables, advisory agreements, informal job descriptions, and actual time-allocation data. They gather direct feedback from co-founders regarding current operational bottlenecks and individual skill strengths.
Completing this action ensures the role design is grounded in empirical team performance data and existing legal commitments rather than theoretical ideals. It prevents misalignment between legal realities, equity allocation, and actual day-to-day operational execution.
A comprehensive inventory of current team artifacts, including a skills matrix, documented current time spend per founder, and an audit of legal commitments. The founder must evidence where current operational practice diverges from formal agreements.
Five questions an expert would ask when reviewing your output
Use these to challenge assumptions, pressure-test your logic, and check the quality of this action's output in the context of the parent task and wider venture development.
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How accurately does your existing equity split reflect the actual operational burden and risk taken on by each co-founder today?
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What quantitative time-allocation data or operational logs were used to audit current founder contribution levels?
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Where do the self-assessed skill sets of the founding team diverge from the critical capabilities required by your immediate venture roadmap?
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What legal or advisory commitments already exist that restrict how roles and decision authority can be assigned?
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How did you validate that all co-founders agree with the objective data gathered regarding current team performance?