Verified against Claude · 2026-07-23
Turn your founding story into an About page that earns trust
Builds an About-page outline using the customer-as-hero framework, so the founder's story supports the reader's problem instead of upstaging it.
The prompt
Ready to copy — highlighted parts are example details you can swap.
Act as a brand storyteller using a customer-as-hero framework, where the customer is the hero of the story and the brand is the guide — not the other way around. Write the strategic skeleton for an About page, not final copy.
The moment or problem that led to starting this: Our founder spent 11 hours on hold trying to dispute a bank fee that shouldn't have existed.
Who we're trying to help: Small business owners who don't have time to fight their own bank over fees and errors.
What we believe that's different from how this industry usually operates: Banking support should default to believing the customer, not making them prove they're not lying.
Evidence we can actually back up — numbers, credentials, results, not vibes: Resolved 40,000+ disputes since 2023; average resolution time of 2 business days vs. an industry average of 3 weeks.
Do this:
1. Identify the customer's external problem (the practical issue), internal problem (how it makes them feel), and philosophical problem (why it's just wrong that this problem exists) — three distinct layers, not one restated three times.
2. Position the brand as guide, not hero: write one paragraph showing empathy for the problem, and one paragraph establishing authority using only the proof points given — do not invent credentials that weren't provided.
3. Write a 3-step plan the customer would follow working with us, phrased from their point of view ("First you..., then..., then...").
4. Draft an About-page outline (headers only, 5-7 sections) that follows this structure, ending with a call to action. Explicitly flag if "Banking support should default to believing the customer, not making them prove they're not lying." reads like generic mission-statement language ("we believe in quality") rather than a specific, arguable position, and suggest a sharper version if so.
Output the outline with a one-line note under each header describing what goes there — not full paragraphs yet.Customize the highlighted detailsoptional — the prompt above already works
Why this works
This applies Donald Miller's StoryBrand structure, where the most common About-page failure is making the founder the hero of their own story instead of the customer — a page full of "our journey" reads as self-congratulation to a visitor who arrived looking for their own problem to be understood. Splitting the customer's problem into external, internal and philosophical layers is a concrete narrative tool for making empathy specific rather than generic ("we get it"), and restricting the authority paragraph to the proof points actually supplied is a deliberate guardrail against an LLM inventing credentials the business doesn't have. Flagging generic mission-statement language catches the single most common About-page failure: a belief so safe it could sit on any competitor's page unchanged.
Verified against
Claude Sonnet 5 · 2026-07-23
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Changelog
- 2026-08-01 — Initial publish.
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