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CTO Forcing Questions
Challenge an architecture bet, 10x scaling plan or rebuild vs buy. Use whenever asked.
Open in PhởWhat the skill covers
The sections of its instructions, in order.
- 01 When to Run
- 02 The Six CTO Questions
- 1. Scaling Cliff
- 2. Tech Debt Inventory
- 3. Team Scaling
- 4. Build vs Buy
- 5. SLO / Reliability
- 6. Security & Compliance Surface
- 03 Workflow
- 04 Output Format
- 05 Routing
- 06 Related
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- CFO Forcing Questions
Challenge a plan that spends real money: hiring wave, raise, channel budget. Use whenever asked.
- CMO Forcing Questions
Use to challenge positioning, ICP, messaging or channel mix before a launch.
- CPO Forcing Questions
Challenge a roadmap, PMF claim or feature kill. Use whenever asked.
- CRO Forcing Questions
Challenge a forecast, win-rate drop or sales hires. Use whenever asked.
- CISO Forcing Questions
Challenge a plan touching customer data, compliance or prod access. Use when asked.
- General Counsel Forcing Questions
Use to challenge a term sheet, customer MSA, IP assignment or regulatory exposure before signing.
- CAIO Forcing Questions
Use to challenge a plan involving AI (no eval set, API vs fine-tune vs self-host, EU AI Act class).
- CDO Forcing Questions
Use to challenge a plan touching training-data rights, data architecture or data monetization.
- CCO Forcing Questions
Challenge a churn, retention, segment or CS hiring plan. Use whenever asked.
- VPE Forcing Questions
Challenge a plan on delivery speed, eng hiring, team structure or on-call. Use when asked.
- Log the Decision
Use right after the founder approves a boardroom memo, to log it as a durable decision.
- Multi-Role Boardroom Deliberation
Use a decision spanning several executive domains (a pricing change, raise vs cut). Runs a 6-phase C-suite deliberation and writes a board memo.
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What does CTO Forcing Questions do?
Challenge an architecture bet, 10x scaling plan or rebuild vs buy. Use whenever asked.
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