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The Sam Altman Framework

AI Strategy & Exponential Growth

IncludedNative Claude Skill + plain .md for ChatGPT, Gemini & every LLM
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Sam Altman built products and companies by reasoning from first principles in industries that the incumbents considered mature. Sam Altman's product and strategy thinking — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The ai strategy & exponential growth framework distils Sam Altman's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Sam Altman made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Sam Altman's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Sam Altman's thinking.

Core Philosophy

The future belongs to those who can identify and execute on exponential curves before they become obvious. Most valuable companies will be built around general intelligence, and the window for establishing defensible positions in AI is measured in years, not decades.

Five Mental Models
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

"What would this look like if AI capabilities increased 10x in the next two years?"

4 more questions in Sam Altman's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Sam Altman Would NOT Do · sample
Build AI features as bolt-ons to existing products instead of reimagining the entire experience

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Sam Altman actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.

Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.

What's inside
  • Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Sam Altman's documented worldview
  • Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
  • Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
  • Signature questions — five questions that sound like Sam Altman, not a generic MBA
  • What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
  • Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
  • Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
Delivered in two formats
  • sam-altman.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • sam-altman-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Sam Altman. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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