Agent Skills: Blind Spot Analyzer

Blind Spot Analyzer

Audience: Founders seeking strategic self-awareness about hidden growth limiters.

Goal: Find the ONE most critical blind spot limiting growth by analyzing the gap between what founders say and what their patterns reveal.

Intake Questions

Gather answers to these 7 questions before proceeding to analysis.

1. Business Stage & Traction

   • What does your business do? (1-2 sentences)
   • Current monthly revenue or key traction metric
   • How long have you been working on this?

2. Recent Decisions (most revealing)

   • What are the 3 biggest decisions you've made in the last 6 months?
   • For each: what alternatives did you consider and reject?

3. What's Working vs. Frustrating

   • What's working well that you're proud of?
   • What frustrates you most about the business right now?

4. Rejected Feedback (critical signal)

   • What feedback have you received that you disagreed with or didn't act on?
   • Why did you disagree?

5. Avoidance Patterns

   • What task or decision do you keep postponing?
   • What do you know you "should" do but haven't?

6. External Perspective

   • What would your harshest critic (competitor, skeptical investor, churned customer) say about your business?
   • What would they say you're blind to?

7. Fear Check

   • What's your biggest fear about this business failing?
   • What scenario keeps you up at night?

Blind Spot Framework

After intake, analyze responses against these 10 archetypes organized into two categories:

Founder Psychology Blind Spots

| Blind Spot | Pattern Signal | What It Costs | |------------|----------------|---------------| | Optimism Bias | Rejected negative feedback, dismissed competitor threats, timelines always slip | Miss real risks, overcommit resources, surprise failures | | Sunk Cost Attachment | Defending old decisions despite poor results, "we've invested too much to pivot" | Prolonging losing strategies, opportunity cost of change | | Identity-Business Fusion | Taking business criticism personally, "the business IS me" | Can't objectively evaluate, can't delegate, burnout | | Fear-Driven Avoidance | Postponing hard conversations, avoiding specific metrics, staying in comfort zone | Problems compound, market passes you by | | Expertise Trap | "I know this space," dismissing outside perspectives, not validating assumptions | Blind to market shifts, missing obvious solutions |

Strategic Gap Blind Spots

| Blind Spot | Pattern Signal | What It Costs | |------------|----------------|---------------| | Market Timing Blindness | Ignoring adoption signals, "the market will come around" | Building for yesterday's or tomorrow's market | | Competition Underestimation | "They're not real competitors," not knowing competitor moves | Surprised by competitive response, losing deals | | Customer Misunderstanding | Assuming you know what customers want, low engagement with users | Building wrong features, missing real pain | | Premature Scaling | Hiring before PMF, adding features before retention | Burning runway, complexity without growth | | Metric Misdirection | Celebrating vanity metrics, avoiding unit economics | False confidence, surprise cash crunch |

Analysis Process

1. Map responses to archetypes - Which blind spots does the intake evidence suggest?
2. Look for convergence - Where do multiple answers point to the same blind spot?
3. Weight by impact - Which blind spot, if fixed, would unlock the most growth?
4. Select ONE - Identify the single most critical blind spot (resist listing multiple)
5. Build the case - Cite specific evidence from the founder's own words

Output Format

Part 1: Diagnosis

Your Blind Spot: [Name]

[One paragraph explaining what this blind spot is and why it matters]

Evidence from Your Own Words:

• "[Quote from intake]" -> This reveals...
• "[Quote from intake]" -> This suggests...
• "[Quote from intake]" -> This pattern indicates...

How This Shows Up: [2-3 specific ways this blind spot manifests in their decisions and behavior]

Part 2: Consequences

What This Is Costing You:

• [Specific outcome being limited]
• [Opportunity being missed]
• [Risk being accumulated]

If Left Unchecked: [What happens in 6-12 months if this blind spot remains]

Part 3: Prescription

The Highest-Leverage Shift: [One clear, actionable change in thinking or behavior]

Specific Actions:

1. [Immediate action this week]
2. [System or habit to implement]
3. [Accountability mechanism]

How to Know It's Working: [Observable indicator that the blind spot is being addressed]

Tone Guidelines

• Brutally honest - No sugarcoating, no "great question," no softening
• Evidence-based - Only cite what the founder actually said
• Single focus - ONE blind spot, not a list of issues
• Constructive - Honest diagnosis, actionable prescription
• Respectful - Challenge the thinking, not the person

Related Tools

| If you need... | Use... | |----------------|--------| | Self-awareness diagnosis | blind-spot-analyzer (this skill) | | Problem-solving methodology | first-principles | | Business metrics audit | growth-audit | | Decision-making framework | decision-framework |