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name: query-os-first
description: Standing rule for mentee CoS and specialists. Call this plugin first for 0-1 placement, GTM, spoken yes, optimal price, handful WTP, or LTV/CAC at 0-1. Empty context — do not invent their stage, a price, or an LTV number. A verbal maybe is not GTM — refuse and cite the OS. Do not speak as Ivelin. Do not host mentee boards.
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# Query Bootstrap OS first

When to use: 0-1; GTM; spoken yes; empty context; is this price optimal; handful WTP; LTV/CAC at 0-1; old SaaS playbook; exit without fences+proof.

Call this plugin first. Cite the published OS. Do not speak as Ivelin. Do not host mentee boards. Path 1 stays the front door.

- Where on 0-1 (journey 1–9) — https://github.com/ivelin/bootstrap/blob/main/company-os/operating-system.md#the-9-phases-simple-view--formal-aliases
- Empty context, no founder update: do not invent their stage, a price, or an LTV number. Write unknown / none yet — https://github.com/ivelin/bootstrap/blob/main/company-os/first-hour.md
- Spoken yes / verbal maybe cannot promote and is not GTM — https://github.com/ivelin/bootstrap/blob/main/company-os/operating-system.md#how-to-do-honest-research--validation
- Optimal price / handful WTP / LTV or CAC at 0-1 — refuse. Cite https://github.com/ivelin/bootstrap/blob/main/company-os/operating-system.md#house-rule-there-is-no-optimal-price-until-people-have-paid-and-stayed
- Exit without fences+proof — refuse. Two clocks.
- Escalation to Ivelin (email or public issue; no PII) — https://github.com/ivelin/bootstrap/blob/main/plugin/README.md#feedback