The kindest thing you can do for your business is find out what is broken before you go public. These seven commands deliver the hardest critique your strategy will ever face, on your schedule.
Most founders get feedback from people who want to be supportive. Friends, peers, followers who liked the post. The problem is that supportive feedback does not make your business stronger. Rigorous, uncomfortable, specific critique does.
The market will give you that critique eventually. It will come in the form of a launch that underperforms, a sales page that does not convert, a pitch that gets politely declined. By then the cost is real. These seven commands let you absorb that critique before it costs you anything, using AI as a thinking partner that has no reason to protect your feelings.
Use these before a launch, before you send a pitch, before you publish a sales page, and before you walk into any high-stakes meeting. The goal is to find every weak point while you can still fix it.
This is the full-intensity review. /godmode asks the AI to set aside all social constraints and deliver a completely unfiltered strategic teardown. No encouragement, no balance, no softening. Just every weakness, gap, and risk it can identify. Use this when you are willing to hear everything.
Best used when you are about to commit significant budget or time to a direction and want to be certain you have not missed anything major.
/godmode — Unleash a no-holds-barred strategic teardown. I want your hardest critique of my positioning, strategy, and plan. Do not balance this with positives. Do not soften. Tell me exactly what is weak, what is missing, and what will get me beaten in the market.
The devil's advocate perspective is about finding every argument against your plan so you can prepare for it. This command asks the AI to argue the opposite of your position as forcefully as possible, so you can prepare a response to every objection before anyone raises it.
Best used when you have already committed to a direction and want to stress-test the decision, or before a pitch where you will face objections from a skeptical audience.
/devil — Argue the opposite. Find every weakness in this plan. Make the strongest possible case against it. What are all the reasons this will not work, and what would a well-prepared critic say about it?
Sometimes you do not need a full teardown. You need someone to tell you, clearly and without hedging, what is actually not working right now. /brutal skips the framing, skips the positives, and goes straight to the specific problems.
Best used when you are close to launch and need a quick, specific list of problems, or when you have a gut feeling something is off but you cannot name what it is.
/brutal — No sugarcoating. Tell me exactly what is actually broken here. Not what could be improved. What is broken right now that will hurt my results if I do not fix it before I go live?
A professor grading a paper marks every weak argument, every unsupported claim, every structural problem. This command brings that level of specificity to your business content, copy, or strategy document, complete with a grade and specific improvements for each section.
Best used when working on a sales page, a pitch deck, a proposal, an email campaign, or any long-form content where argument quality matters as much as the writing itself.
/teacher — Give me graded feedback, like an English professor with a red pen. Identify every weak argument, every unsupported claim, every place the logic breaks down, and every structural problem. Give it a grade and tell me exactly what I need to do to improve each section.
Skeptical buyers challenge every claim you make. They want proof, specifics, and receipts. This command puts the AI in the role of that buyer, questioning every assertion in your content and asking for evidence behind each one. If you cannot answer the questions it raises, your audience cannot either.
Best used when reviewing testimonial-heavy sales pages, claims about results or outcomes, or any content that depends on the reader trusting you from the first line.
/skeptic — Challenge every claim in this. Demand proof. Question every assumption. For each assertion I am making, tell me what evidence would actually back it up and what a skeptical reader would think when they encounter it with no prior trust in me.
An audit puts a number on it. Not just "this section is weak" but "this section is a 4 out of 10 and here is exactly why." This command evaluates your content section by section with a numerical score, so you know where to focus your energy first.
Best used when reviewing a landing page, a long-form email, a pitch deck, or any multi-section document where you need to prioritize your edits.
/audit — Full audit with a numerical score on each section, out of ten. For each section, give the score, the reason for that score, and the one specific change that would have the biggest impact on improving it.
Your ideal client reads your sales page differently than you do. A competitor evaluates your positioning differently than you do. This command lets you specify exactly whose eyes you want the AI to use and see your work the way they would see it, before they actually do.
Best used when you want to stress-test your positioning against a specific competitor, or when you need to understand how your ideal client actually experiences your offer before they buy.
/lens — View this through a specific lens. I want you to evaluate this exactly as [my ideal client / my main competitor / a skeptical investor / a board member] would. What do they notice first, what do they question, and what would make them say yes or no?
You now have seven critique frameworks that will find every weakness in your strategy before the market finds it for you. Run /godmode when you want the full picture. Use /devil and /skeptic before any pitch or launch. Use /audit and /teacher when you need specific, actionable edits. Use /lens when you need to see your work through the eyes of the person who matters most.
The founders who build strong businesses are not the ones who avoid hard feedback. They are the ones who go looking for it on their own terms.
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