What is Foreman?

Foreman is an open-source strategic advisor that gives every entrepreneur access to structured strategic thinking — the kind that used to require a six-figure consulting engagement.

You describe your problem in plain language. Foreman diagnoses the root cause, selects the right framework, applies it to your context, produces a professional deliverable, and tracks whether you actually follow through.

| Without Foreman | With Foreman | |---|---| | ❌ "My sales are dropping" stays a vague worry | ✅ Diagnosed as onboarding churn in 6 questions | | ❌ Frameworks learned but never applied | ✅ 158 frameworks applied to YOUR context | | ❌ Board deck built from scratch every time | ✅ 48 professional templates, ready to fill | | ❌ Advice given, execution forgotten | ✅ Implementation tracking with weekly check-ins | | ❌ Same strategy for SaaS and marketplace | ✅ 9 industry packs with sector-specific benchmarks | | ❌ Generic AI chat with no memory | ✅ 5-layer memory system that knows your company |

How It Works

Entrepreneur: "My competitors are crushing us on price"
        │
   ┌────▼────┐
   │  Hooks   │ ── Pattern matches intent → competition threat
   └────┬────┘
   ┌────▼────────────┐
   │  Orchestrator    │ ── Reads memory (Series A, SaaS, 20 employees)
   └────┬────────────┘
   ┌────▼────────────┐
   │  Diagnostic      │ ── 6 triage questions → "differentiation failure"
   └────┬────────────┘
   ┌────▼────────────┐
   │  Playbook        │ ── Competitive Response: Porter's → Art of War → Blue Ocean
   └────┬────────────┘
   ┌────▼────────────┐
   │  Output          │ ── Competitive landscape brief (investor) + action plan (team)
   └────┬────────────┘
   ┌────▼────────────┐
   │  Memory          │ ── Saves analysis, tracks implementation, follows up next week
   └─────────────────┘

What's Inside

| 📚 158 Skills | 📋 48 Output Templates | 🔍 24 Diagnostics | |---|---|---| | Business frameworks from Porter to Stoic philosophy, across 12 categories | Professional documents for investors, boards, teams, clients, and yourself | Triage systems that identify root causes through structured questioning | | 📖 21 Playbooks | 🎯 17 Hooks | 🤖 6 Agents | | Multi-step recipes for pivots, fundraising, scaling, crises, and more | Natural language triggers that route problems to the right solution | Orchestration layer connecting all components | | 🏭 9 Industry Packs | 🔬 18 Research Guides | 🎭 10 Board Personas | | Sector-specific benchmarks for SaaS, Marketplace, Fintech, and 6 more | Data collection templates from market sizing to churn analysis | Adversarial role-play for pitch and board meeting practice |

Three Modes

Foreman adapts to how you work:

| Mode | Command | What It Does | |---|---|---| | Solo | /solo | Adapts everything for solopreneurs — no team, no board, just you. Remaps audiences, adjusts priorities, acknowledges the isolation. | | Stoic | /stoic on | Adds philosophical depth from Stoic tradition. Dichotomy of control on every analysis. Premeditatio malorum on every risk section. Virtue-based anti-patterns. | | Language | /language turkish | Switches all output to any language. System thinks in English, speaks in yours. Works with every mode. |

All three combine: /solo + /stoic on + /language japanese = a solopreneur receiving Stoic-framed strategic guidance in Japanese.

Industry Packs

Same framework, radically different application:

| Pack | Benchmarks | Key Focus | |---|---|---| | SaaS | MRR, ARR, NRR, churn, CAC, LTV | Subscription metrics, retention curves | | Marketplace | GMV, take rate, liquidity, supply/demand | Two-sided dynamics, chicken-and-egg | | E-Commerce | AOV, conversion, cart abandonment, ROAS | Physical product, inventory, seasonality | | Fintech | TPV, default rate, compliance cost, fraud | Regulation-through-everything | | AI/ML | Inference cost, hallucination rate, model drift | Model-centric, data moat | | HealthTech | Clinical validation, provider adoption, HIPAA | Patient safety, triple-aim | | EdTech | Completion rate, institutional adoption, FERPA | Multi-stakeholder (buyer ≠ user) | | D2C/Consumer | CAC by channel, ROAS, brand awareness | Brand-as-moat, community | | Agency/Consulting | Utilization rate, revenue per employee | People-as-product |

Platform Support

Foreman runs wherever AI agents run:

| Platform | Integration | How | |---|---|---| | Claude Code | Native | .claude/ directory — skills, commands, hooks, agents, memory | | Codex | Plugin | .codex-plugin/plugin.json + generated skills/ via build-codex.sh | | OpenClaw | Native plugin | openclaw.plugin.json + index.ts registering 7 agent tools |

Single source of truth: .claude/. Every other platform derives from it.

Quickstart

Claude Code (recommended)

git clone https://github.com/fatihguner/foreman.git
cd foreman

That's it. Claude Code reads .claude/ automatically. Start talking:

"My SaaS churn rate is 5.2% and I'm preparing for Series A. What should I focus on?"

Codex

git clone https://github.com/fatihguner/foreman.git
cd foreman
./scripts/build-codex.sh --clean

OpenClaw

git clone https://github.com/fatihguner/foreman.git
cd foreman
./scripts/openclaw-setup.sh

Key Commands

| Command | What It Does | |---|---| | /skills | List all 158 skills, filter by category or stage | | /apply [skill] | Apply a framework to your context | | /diagnose [area] | Run a diagnostic triage | | /run [playbook] | Start a multi-step playbook | | /track | View implementation progress | | /simulate board | Practice your board presentation | | /research [topic] | Get a data collection guide | | /context | View your stored company context | | /sector [name] | Activate an industry pack | | /help | See all commands |

Advanced Systems

Every recommendation becomes a trackable item. Six states (not-started → in-progress → blocked → completed → abandoned → deferred), weekly check-ins via /check-in, blocker diagnosis with 10 root causes, and a stuck-protocols library covering all 14 skill categories.

The gap between knowing and doing is where entrepreneurial value dies. Foreman closes it.

10 adversarial personas (skeptic investor, financial hawk, operational expert, industry veteran, legal counsel, and 5 more) challenge your presentations with hard questions. 5-dimension scoring (clarity, evidence, strategic coherence, risk awareness, response quality). Post-simulation diagnostic identifies your weakest points.

Stakeholder power mapping, resistance diagnosis, coalition building, communication strategy. Because the best strategy fails if the CFO blocks it and the board is split.

18 structured guides: market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), competitor intelligence, customer interviews (34-question bank), pricing validation (Van Westendorp), financial modeling, due diligence prep, and 12 more. Foreman teaches the framework; research guides teach you how to feed it.

Identity (yearly) → Company (monthly) → History (append-only) → Active (weekly) → Session (ephemeral). Your stage, sector, past analyses, ongoing playbooks, and pending decisions persist across conversations. Foreman doesn't start from scratch — it builds on what came before.

Architecture

foreman/
├── .claude/                     # All operational content (single source of truth)
│   ├── skills/                  # 158 skills across 12 categories
│   ├── output-templates/        # 48 templates across 5 audiences
│   ├── diagnostics/             # 24 triage systems
│   ├── playbooks/               # 21 multi-step recipes
│   ├── hooks/                   # 17 natural language triggers
│   ├── agents/                  # 6 orchestration agents
│   ├── memory/                  # 5-layer persistence system
│   ├── commands/                # 13 command files (~45 commands)
│   ├── industry-packs/          # 9 sector-specific overlay packs
│   ├── research/                # 18 data collection guides
│   ├── implementation/          # Tracking + support system
│   ├── simulation/              # Board simulation + 10 personas
│   ├── org-politics/            # Stakeholder navigation
│   ├── solo-mode/               # Solopreneur adaptations
│   ├── stoic-mode/              # Stoic philosophical lens
│   └── language-mode/           # Multilingual output
├── scripts/                     # 24 utility scripts
├── docs/                        # Architecture, guides, style guide
├── examples/                    # 8 end-to-end walkthroughs
├── openclaw-templates/          # OpenClaw workspace templates
└── .github/                     # CI, issue templates, labels

For the full architecture deep-dive: docs/architecture.md

Skill Categories

| Category | Skills | What It Covers | |---|---|---| | frameworks | 50 | Porter's, SWOT, BMC, Blue Ocean, Balanced Scorecard, NPS, and 44 more | | leadership | 28 | Senior transition, delegation, resilience, feedback, mentoring, and more | | writing | 13 | Purpose, process, clarity, tone, emails, memos, performance reviews | | ai-leadership | 9 | AI adoption: learning, purpose, inclusion, vision, augmentation | | game-theory | 7 | Nash equilibrium, prisoner's dilemma, information asymmetry, coalitions | | stoic | 12 | Control, emotions, awareness, duty, resilience, mortality, amor fati | | storytelling | 8 | Finding stories, structure, stakes, emotional impact, performance | | negotiation | 4 | Mindset, competitive tactics, cooperative strategy, closing | | people | 8 | Understanding, meeting, reading, connecting, influencing, conflict | | creative | 8 | Identity, perception, practice, obstacles, flow, collaboration | | thinking | 6 | Clear thinking defaults, strength, weakness, decisions, priorities | | decisions | 5 | Traps, generating solutions, evaluating options, executing, tough calls |

Contributing

Foreman is open source because strategic thinking should be open. Every contribution — a new skill, a refined diagnostic, a sector-specific industry pack — helps an entrepreneur somewhere make a better decision.

git clone https://github.com/fatihguner/foreman.git
cd foreman
./scripts/setup.sh

Read the full guide: CONTRIBUTING.md

Roadmap

• [x] 158 skills across 12 categories
• [x] 48 output templates across 5 audiences
• [x] 24 diagnostics + 21 playbooks
• [x] 9 industry packs with benchmarks
• [x] Board simulation with 10 personas
• [x] Implementation tracking + support
• [x] Solo, Stoic, and Language modes
• [x] Claude Code + Codex + OpenClaw support
• [ ] Community-contributed skills and packs
• [ ] Anonymous cross-user benchmarks
• [ ] Live data integration (CRM, analytics)
• [ ] Predictive diagnostics
• [ ] Adaptive playbooks

Built By

Fatih Guner — founder of Komunite (Türkiye's largest entrepreneurship community) and Lokomotif AI (corporate AI adoption). Built Foreman after watching thousands of entrepreneurs struggle with the same strategic blind spots.

𝕏 @fatihguner · LinkedIn

License

MIT — Fatih Guner, 2026.