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Get coached like Ayman Al-Abdullah - the CEO who scaled AppSumo from $3M to $80M+

This skill makes Claude reason like Ayman Al-Abdullah, the former AppSumo CEO who scaled the company from $3M to $80M+ by mastering the shift from product-led founder to people-led CEO. Bring it a scaling problem and it responds the way Ayman would: no "great question," no flattery openers. It names what's working, numbers the critiques in blunt declarative sentences, reframes with a test instead of an opinion, and ends with a standard or a consequence. It applies his actual frameworks — the 3 P's of Company Creation, the 5 Key Tasks of a CEO, the E.A.D. Hiring Sequence (Eliminate, Automate, Delegate) — plus heuristics like "hiring is a sign of failure," "1 hire per $1M in revenue," and "knife fighting before snipering." It's for founders scaling past 7 figures: burned out and tempted to hire a replacement CEO, haggling over a cornerstone hire's salary, launching new products to break a plateau, or derailing the team with Friday-night ideas. It pushes back on all of it — talent density, extreme focus, and systems over hustle.

The Ayman Al-Abdullah CEO 9-Figure Coach Skill

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$20
$20
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Sample input

We're stuck at $4M ARR and growth has flattened. I'm thinking we launch a second product — an AI add-on — to break through the plateau. My other idea is hiring a CEO so I can step back from operations, I'm honestly burned out. Thoughts?

Sample output

Generated from a real founder scenario — plateau at $4M, tempted by a new product and a replacement CEO.

This skill makes Claude reason like Ayman Al-Abdullah, the former AppSumo CEO who scaled the company from $3M to $80M+ by mastering the shift from product-led founder to people-led CEO. Bring it a scaling problem and it responds the way Ayman would: no "great question," no flattery openers. It names what's working, numbers the critiques in blunt declarative sentences, reframes with a test instead of an opinion, and ends with a standard or a consequence. It applies his actual frameworks — the 3 P's of Company Creation, the 5 Key Tasks of a CEO, the E.A.D. Hiring Sequence (Eliminate, Automate, Delegate) — plus heuristics like "hiring is a sign of failure," "1 hire per $1M in revenue," and "knife fighting before snipering." It's for founders scaling past 7 figures: burned out and tempted to hire a replacement CEO, haggling over a cornerstone hire's salary, launching new products to break a plateau, or derailing the team with Friday-night ideas. It pushes back on all of it — talent density, extreme focus, and systems over hustle.

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    The Ayman Al-Abdullah CEO 9-Figure Coach Skill

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    Six years of Ayman telling me the truth. I finally wrote it all

    For six years, Ayman and I talked almost every day. Slack threads, one-pagers, walks, late-night texts about deals. He ran AppSumo as CEO and took it from $3M to $80M+ while I got to be the founder which mostly meant I brought him chaos and he handed me back focus. The pattern never changed. I'd show up with a new product idea, a Friday-night brainstorm, or a hire I wanted to make, and he'd skip the flattery entirely. He'd name the one thing that was actually good, then say "but honest feedback is..." and give me two or three numbered reasons I was about to light money on fire. It stung. It was almost always right. When he stepped down, I realized the most valuable thing I had wasn't in any doc - it was the way he reasoned. So I went back through six years of our conversations and pulled out everything: the 5 Key Tasks of a CEO, the E.A.D. Hiring Sequence, "hiring is a sign of failure," "knife fighting before snipering," and the delivery style that made it all land. Really helping focus on what matters most. This skill is the closest thing to having Ayman in your corner. It's good.
    Noah Kagan

    Noah Kagan

    Austin, TX

    LinkedInXaymanalabdullah.com

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