Daily Prompt Pack: How to Recruit and Onboard Startup Advisors – 3 Prompts

Most founders treat advisors like a checkbox. These three prompts help you recruit the right people, negotiate fair equity splits, and onboard them so they actually show up.

[Claude]

I am a solo founder building a B2B SaaS in healthcare revenue cycle management. I have no formal advisors yet. Act as a venture attorney and generate a ranked list of 5 advisor archetypes I should recruit first. For each, state the ideal background, expected time commitment, and a single metric they should improve within 90 days. Output as a markdown table.

[ChatGPT]

I am offering an advisor 0.25% equity vesting over 2 years with a 3-month cliff for my pre-seed startup. Draft a concise advisor agreement that includes scope of work, meeting cadence, termination clause, and IP assignment. Output the full agreement as plain text with bracketed placeholders for names and dates.

[Cursor]

Review the onboarding checklist in ./advisor_onboarding.md. Add a section that defines the first 30-day expectations, meeting cadence, and a single KPI the advisor owns. Ensure the doc includes a feedback loop so the founder can evaluate advisor contribution quarterly. Output the updated file.

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