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Audit Invisible Work Consuming Engineering Capacity
Exposes hidden labour consuming engineering capacity — helping a CTO understand where effort is actually going and why delivery feels slower than headcount suggests it should.
Clean up your Codebase
The prompt instructs a coding agent to spin up 8 specialised subagents that each tackle a distinct code quality concern — deduplication, type consolidation, unused code removal, circular dependencies, weak typing, unnecessary defensive programming, legacy code, and AI-generated noise.
Coach Your Engineering Team on AI Adoption
Builds a CTO-led plan for introducing AI coding tools — covering rollout sequencing, fast-conviction use cases, code quality maintenance, and how to lead engineers who are simultaneously excited and threatened.
Conduct a security audit on your codebase
Instructs an expert security auditor to perform a thorough, adversarial review of a system, identifying vulnerabilities across all layers, modeling threats, uncovering logic flaws and attack chains, and delivering structured findings with severity, exploitation scenarios, and actionable remediation recommendations.
Create McKinsey Grade presentations
A professional, high-density consulting presentation slide, designed in the style of a top-tier strategy firm (McKinsey/BCG) blended with high-end editorial aesthetics.
Decide: Build vs Buy vs Partner
A structured, commercially honest framework for making build/buy/partner decisions — and defending them to a CEO who wants cheaper and a board that always wants faster.
Deliver Bad Technical News to the CEO
Structures the message the right way: problem stated upfront, cause diagnosed honestly, recovery plan specific enough to be believed — calibrated to your CEO's communication style and relationship.
Diagnose the Innovation vs Delivery Balance
Reveals whether innovation capacity actually exists in your organisation — or whether it is structurally optimised for delivery while believing it is innovative.
Diagnose Your Engineering Culture
Runs a structured, unsparing diagnostic of the engineering culture you actually have — rather than the one you believe you have — and identifies what it means for quality, velocity, and retention.
Figure Out Why Engineering Feels Slow
Replaces subjective frustration with a systems-level diagnosis — separating delivery constraints, organisational friction, prioritisation problems, and genuine inefficiency to create alignment across product, engineering, and leadership.
Plan a Difficult Conversation as a CTO
Structures the conversation that needs to happen — whether it's an engineer who's become a bottleneck, a CEO pushing a damaging deadline, or a board that doesn't understand why the replatform costs what it does.
Plan Your First 90 Days as a New CTO
Builds a rigorous, phased playbook for a new CTO — covering early relationship priorities, team reads, cultural navigation, and first battles that establish credibility as a trusted strategic architect.
Prepare for Your CEO 1:1
Helps you think like the CEO before you're in the room — anticipating questions, surfacing background concerns, and showing up as a strategic peer rather than someone being managed.
Prioritise Technical Debt
Transforms your debt inventory into a ranked, commercially honest view of what to tackle, what to tolerate, and what to stop calling debt when it's actually just legacy.
Rate My CTO Comms
A blunt, outside-in assessment of how your communication lands with people who don't think like you. Paste any email, update, or board narrative and get an honest read on whether it works.
Reality-Check AI-Assisted Engineering Impact
Uncovers the true impact of AI on engineering output, quality, and skill distribution — revealing where it multiplies capability, creates hidden risks, or subtly reshapes workflow and decision-making.
Resolve Platform vs Product Engineering Tension
Helps a CTO diagnose what's causing friction between platform and product teams, structure governance that prevents recurrence, and have the conversations that usually don't happen until they're overdue.
Review a Major Architecture Decision
A structured adversarial review of a major architecture decision — exposing where the design solves the wrong problem, where operational assumptions are optimistic, and where today's solution becomes tomorrow's migration.
Review Senior Engineer Utilisation
Maps how senior engineers actually spend their time — diagnosing which responsibilities exist because the organisation is broken, and identifying one concrete change to restore their leverage and impact.
Run a Board Pre-Mortem on Your Technical Plans
Turns your technical plans into a sharp board member who asks hard questions, spots strategic fragility, and forces commercial clarity — before the real board does.
Run an Engineering Hiring Pre-Mortem
Goes beyond technical competence to test a candidate's judgment, collaboration instinct, and whether they'll make the team stronger or subtly more fragile. Paste in a CV and team context to get started.
Stress-Test Your Technology Roadmap
A rigorous adversarial review of your technology roadmap — exposing misaligned priorities, fragile delivery assumptions, and where the plan would collapse under realistic execution pressure.
Test Whether You Have a Hiring or a Systems Problem
Helps a CTO determine whether the real delivery bottleneck is capacity, coordination, clarity, or system design — before committing to hiring decisions that are expensive and difficult to reverse.