---
title: "General Counsel Forcing Questions"
type: skill
id: "rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/gc-review"
category: "Operations & leadership"
publisher: "Alireza Rezvani"
license: "MIT"
source: "https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/c85b17e"
canonical: "https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/gc-review"
open_in_pho: "https://pho.chat/customize?item=rezvani-skills%2Fleadership-reviews%2Fgc-review&utm_source=labs&utm_medium=skill-page&utm_campaign=skills-library"
---

# General Counsel Forcing Questions

Use to challenge a term sheet, customer MSA, IP assignment or regulatory exposure before signing.

Source: Alireza Rezvani (MIT), copied at a pinned commit. Free to use. Part of the Phở Skills library (https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills).
Skill set: Leadership reviews (https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews.md).

## What it covers
- When to Run
- The Six GC Questions
  - 1. IP Ownership
  - 2. Liability & Indemnity
  - 3. Data Processing
  - 4. Termination & Renewal
  - 5. Regulatory Surface
  - 6. Employment / Equity
- Workflow
- Output Format
- Routing
- Workflow Integration with general-counsel-advisor skill
- Related

## Other skills in this set
- [CFO Forcing Questions](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/cfo-review.md): Challenge a plan that spends real money: hiring wave, raise, channel budget. Use whenever asked.
- [CTO Forcing Questions](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/cto-review.md): Challenge an architecture bet, 10x scaling plan or rebuild vs buy. Use whenever asked.
- [CMO Forcing Questions](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/cmo-review.md): Use to challenge positioning, ICP, messaging or channel mix before a launch.
- [CPO Forcing Questions](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/cpo-review.md): Challenge a roadmap, PMF claim or feature kill. Use whenever asked.
- [CRO Forcing Questions](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/cro-review.md): Challenge a forecast, win-rate drop or sales hires. Use whenever asked.
- [CISO Forcing Questions](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/ciso-review.md): Challenge a plan touching customer data, compliance or prod access. Use when asked.
- [CAIO Forcing Questions](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/caio-review.md): Use to challenge a plan involving AI (no eval set, API vs fine-tune vs self-host, EU AI Act class).
- [CDO Forcing Questions](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/cdo-review.md): Use to challenge a plan touching training-data rights, data architecture or data monetization.
- [CCO Forcing Questions](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/cco-review.md): Challenge a churn, retention, segment or CS hiring plan. Use whenever asked.
- [VPE Forcing Questions](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/vpe-review.md): Challenge a plan on delivery speed, eng hiring, team structure or on-call. Use when asked.
- [Log the Decision](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/decide.md): Use right after the founder approves a boardroom memo, to log it as a durable decision.
- [Multi-Role Boardroom Deliberation](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/boardroom.md): 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.

## Use it
- In Phở: open https://pho.chat/customize?item=rezvani-skills%2Fleadership-reviews%2Fgc-review&utm_source=labs&utm_medium=skill-page&utm_campaign=skills-library and press Try, or add it so Phở loads it whenever a request matches. Phở works with your own API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others).
- Full instructions (original SKILL.md, unchanged): https://labs.pho.chat/skills/raw/rezvani-skills/leadership-reviews/skills/gc-review/SKILL.md
- Original files: https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/c85b17e (MIT).
- Full machine-readable index: https://labs.pho.chat/skills.json