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🧠 Why This Matters

Hiring at the wrong time — or in the wrong order — is one of the most expensive mistakes early-stage founders make. This tool helps you prioritize what roles to hire first by balancing urgency, strategic importance, and difficulty to fill.

🛠 How to Use This Tool

1. Duplicate this page → Top right → "Duplicate"
2. Add your open or potential roles to the table below
3. Score each across 3 key inputs:
   • Urgency → How time-sensitive is this role?
   • Strategic Impact → How critical is this role to hitting milestones?
   • Difficulty to Hire → How long/hard will it be to fill?
4. Let the weighted score guide your hiring sequence

🧮 Scoring Formula

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Weighted Priority Score =

(Urgency × 0.4) + (Strategic Impact × 0.4) – (Difficulty × 0.2)

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This favors roles that are both urgent and impactful — and slightly penalizes roles that are hard to fill (as a signal to plan further ahead or consider alternatives).

📊 Role Prioritization Table

✅ Sort this table by Weighted Score (high to low) to determine which role to hire first.

💬 Pro Tip

<aside> Share this page with your co-founder or board to align hiring priorities before launching any search or writing JDs. It makes decision-making faster, cleaner, and easier to defend.

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🧰 Want More Tools Like This?

Includes:

• Job description prompt pack
• Onboarding plan