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First 10 Hires Plan

Order, role, salary range, equity, JD draft for first 10 hires. Stage-aware for Indian startups.

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Pick one. Copy to paste straight away, or download first-hire-plan.md to keep.

Step 2

Paste it into your AI

Update every 6 months as you scale. Resist hiring senior people too early — first 10 should be builders.

Open Claude ↗Open ChatGPT ↗Open Gemini ↗
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Plan the first 10 hires.

Company stage: {{PRE-SEED / SEED / SERIES A}}
Current team (founders + 0 to 3 employees): {{LIST}}
Revenue or MRR in INR: {{NUMBER}}
Funding raised + runway: {{INR + MONTHS}}
Top 3 product priorities next 12 months: {{LIST}}

Output:
1. Recommended hiring order (10 roles ranked by urgency)
2. For each role:
   - Title + seniority
   - Why this role + why now
   - Salary range INR (city-tuned)
   - ESOP grant % range
   - Where to source (LinkedIn / community / referral)
   - Realistic time-to-hire (weeks)
   - JD opening lines
3. Roles to AVOID at this stage (3, with why)
4. Founder time allocation per role (when to insource vs delegate)
5. India: PF, gratuity, leave, joining bonus expectations

Be honest about salary. Underpaying first 10 destroys culture later.

Works with: Claude · ChatGPT · Gemini · Any model

By Rishi Jain

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