Weekly Founder Update to Investors in 15 Minutes
The exact workflow we use to send weekly investor updates that actually get read — with under 15 minutes of founder time per week.
The workflow
- 01
Maintain a 'this week' doc
Throughout the week, dump raw notes into one Notion page: metrics, wins, losses, blockers, asks. 30 seconds whenever something happens.
- 02
Friday — paste into the WBR prompt
Run the Weekly Business Review prompt with everything you dumped. Output: a tight 300-word summary.
- 03
Edit for honesty
Read the summary. Cut any spin. If a metric is bad, name it. Investors smell defensiveness from 100 yards.
- 04
Send
Friday afternoon to the mailing list. Same day every week. Same format every week.
- 05
Reply to inbound questions
Most replies are easy. The hard ones often surface the most important strategic conversations of your year.
Why weekly beats monthly
Investors who hear from you weekly become advisors. Investors who hear from you monthly become spectators. The cadence is the product, not the content.
The trap
The first time, you’ll over-edit. Don’t. Send a 60% draft. Iterate next week. Consistency matters more than polish in this format.
