Scale · Chapter 4 · AI Launch Pad
Plan My First Hire
This Launch Pad takes you from "I think I need help" to a hire-or-do-not-hire decision you can defend. If hiring is the right answer, it produces the complete hiring package: the role, the scorecard, and the 90-day onboarding plan.
Bring to the session
- A list of tasks that are overwhelming you (specific tasks with hours per week)
- Your current monthly revenue and its trend over the last three months (up, down, or flat)
- The amount you could pay this person for six months even if revenue dropped 30%
- The SOPs you built in Chapter 2
- Your Owner Dependency Score from Chapter 1
- Your country (Austria, Germany, or Switzerland): employer costs, notice periods, and low-risk entry points differ, and the verdicts change with them
What you walk away with
a hire-or-do-not-hire decision you can defend, the cheaper alternative for every task that did not survive the sequence, and, if hiring is the answer, the role, a complete scorecard, and a 90-day onboarding plan.
The AI does the math and the structure. You make the call. It can compare an employee against a freelancer down to the euro. It cannot sit across from a candidate and sense whether they share your standard. That is your job.
The guided version opens with The Builder's Desk
A 3-step guided session that structures the work, saves your outputs, and connects them across chapters. Until then, the full briefing is in your copy of the book — it works with any capable AI assistant.
From the book: Save this output, you will need it for LP 4.5. ---