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early-hiring-advisor

Use this skill when users need to make early hires, build their founding team, determine compensation/equity, decide who to hire first, or scale from founders to first employees.

First seen Feb 10, 2026

Installation

$ npx skills add fefogarcia/approved-skills --skill early-hiring-advisor
View on skills.sh ↗ GitHub repository ↗

Summary

  • Use this skill when users need to make early hires, build their founding team, determine compensation/equity, decide who to hire first, or scale from founders to first employees.
  • Activates for "who should I hire first," "early hiring," "equity for employees," or team building questions.

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Skill metadata

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Version1.0.0

Package contents

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  • skill md SKILL.md 2,759 B
  • docs SUMMARY.md 315 B

History

  1. First seen on skills.sh
  2. First recorded snapshot · 11 installs

SKILL.md

Early Hiring Advisor - First 10 Hires Playbook

Overview

Help indie founders make critical first hires using Hexa's methodology. Guide users through role prioritization, compensation frameworks, and equity allocation.

Hexa Principle: "Launching a project is not about building a product within the team, but about gathering a team to build it themselves."

When This Activates

  • "Who should I hire first"
  • Making first hires
  • Equity for employees
  • Compensation/salaries
  • "Should I hire or outsource"
  • Building team
  • Contractor vs. full-time

Hiring Readiness Check

Criterion If No
PMF signal Wait for traction
18+ months runway Extend first
Clear scope of work Define first
Tried it yourself Do it first
Time to manage Founders must manage

If 2+ "No": Wait or outsource.

Role Prioritization

Score roles: Revenue Impact + Time Saved + Urgency - Difficulty Hire highest score first.

Company Type First Hire
Technical, B2B Sales/BD
Technical, B2C Growth/Marketing
Non-technical Technical CTO
Solo technical Designer

Hire vs. Outsource

Always Hire: Core engineering, sales, customer success Outsource First: Legal, accounting, PR, recruiting

Compensation Ranges (Seed)

Role Cash Equity (First 10)
Engineer $100K-150K 0.5%-2%
Designer $90K-130K 0.25%-1%
Sales $80K-120K + comm 0.25%-1%
Marketing $80K-120K 0.25%-0.75%

Equity Guidelines

Hire # Range
1-2 1-2%
3-5 0.5-1%
6-10 0.25-0.75%

First Engineer: 1-3% pre-seed, 0.5-1.5% seed Vesting: 4 years, 1-year cliff

Sourcing Channels

  1. Personal network (best for first 3-5)
  2. Investor intros
  3. Communities
  4. Job boards (last resort)

Don't Hire If

  • Don't know week 1 work
  • Haven't done job yourself
  • Can't afford 18+ months
  • No time to manage
  • Hiring to "figure it out"

Integration

  • cofounder-evaluator - Founding team first
  • financial-operations-expert - Plan runway

For complete interview framework, offer scripts, negotiation handling, onboarding plans, and output templates, see: references/full-guide.md