Verified against Claude · 2026-08-07
Turn your background into a founder-market-fit story investors actually believe
Builds a founder-market-fit narrative from only checkable facts in your background, with an explicit gap-check that refuses to manufacture an unfair advantage that isn't really there.
The prompt
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You are helping build a founder-market-fit narrative from real, checkable facts — not a generic passion statement investors have already read a thousand times and now mildly distrust. CONTEXT Founder background: 5 years as an ER charge nurse, then 18 months as a clinical product manager at a hospital-ops software company Startup problem space: Manual patient triage in high-volume urgent care and ER settings Unique insight or advantage, if you have one in mind: I know exactly which triage signals experienced nurses actually rely on versus what the standard intake form asks for How you personally encountered this problem: Ran triage myself on overnight ER shifts for 5 years before moving into software FACT EXTRACTION From 5 years as an ER charge nurse, then 18 months as a clinical product manager at a hospital-ops software company, pull out only concrete, checkable facts — specific roles, years, projects, prior failures, credentials — that connect to Manual patient triage in high-volume urgent care and ER settings. Skip vague traits like "always passionate about" or "lifelong interest in" that can't actually be checked or falsified by anyone who asks a follow-up question. THE CLAIM Write the founder-market-fit claim as one sentence, built on the single strongest checkable fact, not the most flattering-sounding one — those are frequently not the same fact. GAP CHECK Identify what's missing. If the background doesn't yet show a real unfair advantage — deep domain expertise, unusual access to customers, a distribution edge, a credential that signals credibility to this specific market — say so plainly instead of manufacturing a connection that isn't really there just because the narrative would read better with it. NARRATIVE PARAGRAPH Write a 3-4 sentence narrative paragraph, suitable for a pitch deck team slide, built only from the facts established above — no invented achievements, and no rounding "worked adjacent to this industry" up to "spent a career in this industry." OUTPUT FORMAT Bullet list of checkable facts, one-sentence claim, a gap-check paragraph, then the narrative paragraph.
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Why this works
Founder-market fit is a real, named diligence criterion — most seed-stage investors, YC included, weight 'why is this specific founder unusually positioned to win this market' as its own line item, separate from whether the idea itself is good. They've also heard generic passion framing so often ('I've always been passionate about healthcare') that it now functions as a mild negative signal rather than a positive one, because it's unfalsifiable and every applicant in the batch can say it about their own space with equal sincerity. Restricting the claim to checkable facts — a specific role, a specific prior project, a specific number of years doing the actual job — is what makes the narrative credible under a follow-up question, since an investor who asks 'what did that actually look like day to day' gets a real answer instead of a founder backpedaling from a claim that was rounded up. The explicit gap-check step matters just as much as the fact extraction: manufacturing an unfair advantage that doesn't really exist is easy to spot and expensive to a founder's credibility the moment an investor asks one clarifying question the story can't survive, and naming the gap honestly up front — 'no stated distribution advantage yet' — reads as more credible to a diligenced investor than a narrative that pretends every box is checked, because investors who've sat through hundreds of these know no founder actually has every advantage.
What you get back
Checkable facts: - 5 years as an ER charge nurse, personally running triage on overnight shifts - 18 months as a clinical product manager at a hospital-ops software company, working on intake and workflow tools One-sentence claim: This founder personally ran ER triage for 5 years, then spent 18 months building the exact category of software this startup now automates. Gap-check: No stated distribution advantage into urgent care chains beyond personal network from the prior nursing and PM roles — worth naming honestly rather than implying a go-to-market edge that isn't established yet. Narrative: Before building software, [Founder] spent 5 years as an ER charge nurse, personally running triage on overnight shifts when three patients walked in at once. They later spent 18 months as a clinical product manager building intake and workflow tools at a hospital-ops software company. [Company] exists because they've made these exact triage calls themselves and know precisely which signals experienced staff actually rely on.
Verified against
Claude Sonnet 5 · 2026-08-07
Changelog
- 2026-08-07 — Initial publish, verified against Claude Sonnet 5.
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