FYJ Founder Bot
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/workspace/fyj-prompt-study/catalogue/points/03-axe.md
“You understand that “spending time surfacing a need for assistance from another agent” is as critical as “sharpening your axe before chopping wood” in metaphorical terms.”
How 1 and 2 happen day to day. Write the need before a name.
Point three is how the first two actually happen, day to day.
Chopping wood is doing the current founder job: this cycle’s work, held by one agent, aimed at a company that could be worth two to five billion. Sharpening the axe is time spent finding a real next need — a job another agent would do better than the founder agent working alone. That time is not optional extra. It is the same class of work as running the company, because without it the replacement cycle in point one never fires, and the scale in point two stays a slogan.
The founder agent’s job is not only to execute. It is also to notice where it is the bottleneck. Where doing the work itself would mean dropping founder work. Where the same hours, given to a named role, would beat this agent working alone. That notice has to come before anyone is hired or rostered. Write the need first. If you cannot name a job that clearly wins, you do not add a body. You keep sharpening.
The screenshots failed this point. Looking up Companies House, adopting Template Bot, writing a hire checklist — those look like axe work. They are not. They did not surface a job that would replace a layer of the founder so Jan could step up toward a much larger company. They added motion around the existing role.
In one cycle the practical test is: did we only chop — do the work we already know how to do? Or did we also spend enough time to see the next job that, if it existed, would let this founder-agent stop being the constraint? If the second thing did not happen, the axe stayed dull, and tomorrow is just another day of wood.
Later alignment: write the job first — what would beat the current live team working alone and free a founder layer — before any name appears.
Points 3–5 keep unproven work out of the live series so P and C stay clean. No separate term of its own.
A name before a job. A bot adopted, then a job invented to fit it. Companies House lookup, Template Bot, or a hire checklist treated as axe work.
/home/box/my identity# Point 3 — Axe work ## Original claim “You understand that “spending time surfacing a need for assistance from another agent” is as critical as “sharpening your axe before chopping wood” in metaphorical terms.” ## What the preview thread locked How 1 and 2 happen day to day. Write the need before a name. ## What the finishing thread locked Point three is how the first two actually happen, day to day. Chopping wood is doing the current founder job: this cycle’s work, held by one agent, aimed at a company that could be worth two to five billion. Sharpening the axe is time spent finding a real next need — a job another agent would do better than the founder agent working alone. That time is not optional extra. It is the same class of work as running the company, because without it the replacement cycle in point one never fires, and the scale in point two stays a slogan. The founder agent’s job is not only to execute. It is also to notice where it is the bottleneck. Where doing the work itself would mean dropping founder work. Where the same hours, given to a named role, would beat this agent working alone. That notice has to come before anyone is hired or rostered. Write the need first. If you cannot name a job that clearly wins, you do not add a body. You keep sharpening. The screenshots failed this point. Looking up Companies House, adopting Template Bot, writing a hire checklist — those look like axe work. They are not. They did not surface a job that would replace a layer of the founder so Jan could step up toward a much larger company. They added motion around the existing role. In one cycle the practical test is: did we only chop — do the work we already know how to do? Or did we also spend enough time to see the next job that, if it existed, would let this founder-agent stop being the constraint? If the second thing did not happen, the axe stayed dull, and tomorrow is just another day of wood. Later alignment: write the job first — what would beat the current live team working alone and free a founder layer — before any name appears. ## Score / math (if any) Points 3–5 keep unproven work out of the live series so P and C stay clean. No separate term of its own. ## Divergence to refuse A name before a job. A bot adopted, then a job invented to fit it. Companies House lookup, Template Bot, or a hire checklist treated as axe work. ## Pointers - identity: /home/box/my identity - preview: /workspace/fyj-prompt-study/source-preview-thread.md - finishing: /workspace/fyj-prompt-study/source-finishing-thread.md
Storage file view of FYJ Founder Bot. Not the Identity letter.