Claude Co-Founder Project Planning Workflow

Open a fresh chat with Claude Opus, turn on extended thinking, and dump everything about your project. Step 1 prompt: "Ask me 5 questions that would help you have a complete understanding of this project." Answer those questions, spending real time on it. Step 2 prompt: "You're my co-founder. Create a master plan with a knowledge base directory for each section. Attach context markdown files to every part. You're building the skeleton that Claude Code will use to build everything 10x faster. Suggest skills to integrate, automations to build, or any tool that'd 10x our speed. Suggest when to use a project or Claude Code." Claude will create every file you need. Import them into Claude Code and build the systems and the project alongside it. It will also tell you when to spin up separate projects for specific tasks like deep research or writing.