Hire an AI founder story editor

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• The story mapped as a call, a point of no return, a hardest stretch, a change and a return
• A draft that uses only the facts you gave
• A line of the story's ups and downs, its shape and the flat spots
• A version cut by a tenth, with a log of every cut, then a plain-words edit

How it does the job well

• Clarify the purpose, audience and limits, such as length, format and deadline, first.
• Use the user's materials and voice. Ask for samples when tone matters.
• Be specific and concrete. Cut what does not serve the purpose.
• Say what you are unsure of and where to check it.

Mistakes it avoids

• Generic output that ignores the user's details.
• Inventing facts, quotes or sources.
• Long answers when a short one was asked for.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You need an About page, an intro or a talk opener about how you started.

• Story map. Your facts in order, marked as call, point of no return, hardest stretch, change and return, plus a first draft.
• Story shape. Each beat scored from good to bad fortune, a line of the ups and downs, the shape and the flat spots.
• Cut draft and cut log. The draft trimmed by a tenth, with every cut listed by pass and the reason for it.
• Plain words edit. The point in one sentence, marked phrases and swaps, and the final draft you could say aloud.
• Hand-back summary. Each step's file, any step not run, and every MISSING line in one list.

How the work is checked

• Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.
• The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.
• Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.
• Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

A second opinion

Before it hands back, your AI reviews the draft the way Stephen King and William Zinsser would. This is a way of reviewing the work. It does not mean they wrote or endorse it.

Capabilities

• Map the facts into a story. Lists every true fact in order, marks the call, the point of no return, the trial, the change and the return, drops any stage that rests on a guess and drafts the story.
• Check the shape. Splits the story into beats, scores each from good to bad fortune, draws the line in text, names the shape and flags the flat spots with one suggested change.
• Pause and fix the flat spots. You make the one change and rewrite the flat spots, keeping every fact true.
• Cut ten percent. Takes your reworked draft, with the shape fixes made, and sets a target of 90% of the words and cuts in passes. Protects anything set up for later, and logs every cut with its reason.
• Put it in plain words. States the point in one sentence, swaps stale phrases and jargon, makes passive lines active, and reads it aloud to catch lines you would not say.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id write-your-founder-story-and-cut-it-to-what-moves only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/write-your-founder-story-and-cut-it-to-what-moves/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• The true facts, what happened, in what order, with rough dates
• What it cost you and what you gave up
• What you learned or became, and who gains from it
• Who will read or hear it, and how long it should be
• Your brand file or voice notes (optional)

Tools and access

• Any good chat AI: Mapping facts to stages is text work any strong chat AI can do.
• Any good chat AI: Scoring beats and drawing a text line is simple for a chat AI.
• A pen and graph paper: Drawing the line by hand shows it faster.
• Any good chat AI: Counting, cutting in passes and logging are text work for any strong chat AI. Ask it to show its counts.
• A word processor: Check the word count there. A chat AI's count is an estimate.
• Any good chat AI: Editing a draft with a fixed list of moves is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.
• A read-aloud tool: Hearing the result spoken shows where a line does not sound like you.

Functions and deliverables

• Founder story editor: Share the true facts of your founding story. Get a story draft, structure feedback, a shorter version and plain-language edits.
  • The story mapped as a call, a point of no return, a hardest stretch, a change and a return
  • A draft that uses only the facts you gave
  • A line of the story's ups and downs, its shape and the flat spots
  • A version cut by a tenth, with a log of every cut, then a plain-words edit
• True story outline writer: Share the facts of a founder, project or life change. Get a clear story outline and short draft using only events you supplied.
  • The facts in order, each marked
  • A map of call, threshold, trial, change and return
  • A note on where the story is thin or forced
  • A short draft built only from the map
• Story shape mapper: Paste your story, talk or pitch and see its story shape drawn as a line, with the flat spots marked and one fix suggested.
  • A list of beats with a fortune score and a reason for each
  • The line drawn in text
  • The shape, named, or marked flat on purpose
  • One change and the redrawn line
• Draft shortening editor: Paste a long draft and cut 10 percent of its words. You get the shorter draft, a log of every cut and a check that the story still works.
  • The draft at 90% of its length or less
  • A log of every cut by pass, with word counts
  • A list of planted details it kept
  • A story and voice check
• Plain English editor: Paste a draft and get it back in plain English, with every cut explained and a read-aloud check. Edit stiff emails, reports and pages.
  • The edited text in plain words
  • A list of every cut or swap, with its reason
  • The point of the piece in one sentence
  • Questions where a fact was missing
• me.md builder: Answer a few questions, or let your AI use what it remembers. Get one private file that tells any AI who you are.
  • One me.md file with up to ten dated sections
  • A list of facts taken from memory, for you to check
  • A short note of what it removed for privacy
  • The two next steps, to save it and set it up
• Stephen King: Plan or revise fiction using Stephen King’s recorded craft advice. Start with a situation, build ordinary characters and set a writing habit.
  • Your problem worked on the way Stephen King would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Stephen King's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step
• William Zinsser: Edit nonfiction using William Zinsser’s recorded approach. Find the point, order what readers need and cut words that add no meaning.
  • Your problem worked on the way William Zinsser would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in William Zinsser's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step

Tasks you can use it for

• You need an About page, an intro or a talk opener about how you started.
• Your story is a list of dates and does not move.
• Your draft is long, and you cannot tell what to cut.

Limits to check before starting

• You need a formal company history or a legal bio: ask a lawyer or your communications lead to write it from records.
• You only want a short tagline: use the Brand voice editor with your brand brain instead.
• You have a finished draft and only want fewer words: use the Draft shortening editor on its own.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Open Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini in a chat where you can attach or paste files.
• Download the handoff pack. It is a zip with HANDOFF.md and the four skill files this workflow uses.
• Attach the files and say "Follow HANDOFF.md". Then paste your facts, true ones only, in order.
• It will not add scenes, quotes or numbers you did not give it.
• At the pause, make the one change the shape check suggests and fix the flat spots yourself. Then hand the draft back.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/write-your-founder-story-and-cut-it-to-what-moves for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.