121 | The AI Decision Making Framework Female Founders Use to Stop Overthinking, Choose Confidently, and Move On | AI Series Day 10 | 12 Days of AI | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks

Hiring. Pricing. Saying yes. Saying no.

When the stakes feel high and your brain is foggy, this 3-question AI decision framework brings the clarity you need.

Big decisions aren’t about intelligence—they’re about clarity. If you’ve been looping on a major business choice, AI can’t make it for you, but it can help you make it like a CEO.

In Day 10 of 12 Days of AI Quick Wins, Dawn shares a 3-question decision-making framework designed for overwhelmed founders facing tough calls. Whether you’re stuck between hiring now or waiting, raising your rates or staying steady, this AI-supported workflow gets you unstuck in 15 minutes—by helping you name your options, rank your values, and map your next move (or test). This is CEO-level clarity, minus the sleepless nights.

Your Day 10 Action:
Choose one decision you’ve been avoiding.
Drop it into ChatGPT with the 3-question prompt.
Let AI walk you through it. You’ll either make the call—or design a test. Either way, you move forward.

Key Takeaways:

• Big decisions stall out when your brain tries to hold too many “what ifs” at once.
• The AI fix: Let it walk you through 3 strategic questions:
  
  
  1. What are you actually choosing between?
  2. What do you value most here?
  3. What’s a small test or next step you could try?
• Real founder example: From “hire or not?” to “test with a contractor.”
• AI becomes your strategic sounding board. It organizes your thinking so you can act with intention—not panic.

Resources & Links:

• Get the full 12 Days of AI Quick Wins Toolkit – just $7
• Register FREE for the Day 13 Live AI Implementation Party – win a 90-minute Strategy Intensive

Related Episodes:

• Day 1: Stop Overthinking ChatGPT: Free vs. $20—Which One Actually Matters for Founders
• Day 2: The 3 AI Prompts Every Female Founder Needs in Her Phone
• Day 3: Why ChatGPT Sounds Like a Robot (And the One Sentence That Fixes It)
• Day 4: AI Email Triage: End Inbox Overwhelm in 5 Minutes
• Day 5: The 5-Minute Meeting Prep AI Hack That Makes You Look Totally Prepared
• Day 6: Stop Rewriting Everything AI Writes: The 10-Minute Voice Training for Founders
• Day 7: Overwhelmed? Brain Dump to AI and Get an Actual Plan (5 Minutes)
• DAY 8: Stop Rewriting the Same Emails: Build Your AI Template Library (15 Minutes)
• DAY 9: Stop Explaining the Same Thing: Create SOPs While You Work (AI + 10 Minutes)

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121 | 12 Days of AI. The AI Decision Making Framework Female Founders Use to Stop Overthinking, Choose Confidently, and Move On | AI Series Day 10

You're stuck on a decision, not a small one, a real one, should you hire. Change your pricing. Say yes to a big opportunity or partnership. Walk away from that client.

It's 11:00 PM You're still thinking about it. You've now made a pros and cons list. You've texted your business bestie. You've even asked your partner twice, and you're still stuck spinning in the same loop. 

Here's how to use AI to get unstuck in 15 minutes.

Hey, hey, hey. Welcome to She's That founder, the show that helps ambitious women stop drowning in decisions and start owning their CEO seat with a little AI magic. I'm Dawn Andrews, and this is day 10 of the 12 days of ai, a female founder's business intervention series.

Today's topic, a three question decision framework. You can run with ai whenever you're spiraling on a big decision and you can't see straight. When you're stuck, I want you to know that you are not stupid. You're overloaded too many variables, too many what ifs. Your brain is trying to hold all of them at once, so it freezes.

AI can't and shouldn't make the decision for you, but it can organize your thinking so that you can make the decision as the CEO do it from a well-informed place.

Here's your steps. 

Step one, dump your situation into ai. Explain your dilemma in plain language. So here's an example. I'm trying to decide if I should hire a full-time ops person. Right now I'm doing it all myself and it's taking 15 to 20 hours a week. I could hire someone for 60 K, but I'm not sure if we have consistent enough revenue to support that.

I'm also worried that if I don't hire, I'll stay stuck in the weeds and won't have time for sales and strategy. But if I hire too soon and revenue dips, I'll be stressed out about payroll. Do you see how I added all that context in there? It really does matter. Just dump it. The messy, the rambling, however it comes out for you.

But do you know what just happened? you've now gotten it out of your head and onto the page or into the chat bar, and half the battle is seeing the chaos laid out instead of spinning it around in your mind like a weighted backpack. 

Step two, ask AI to walk you through these three questions. This is the prompt you're gonna add to that information. 

“Help me think through this by asking me these three questions. What am I actually choosing between. Clarify the real options. what am I most afraid of losing in this situation? Money, time, momentum, control, reputation, what's the simplest next step I can take that moves me forward without fully committing? Is there a test I can do before I leap? Walk me through each question and help me see what I might be missing.”

Then hit enter. 

Step three, answer AI's questions. Honestly, AI will ask and you'll answer, and this is where the clarity comes from. Here's an example of a conversation. This is not verbatim from one that I've had, but it's not that far off.

So example, AI says, what are you actually choosing between you? Hiring now versus waiting six months versus using a contractor 10 hours a week. Ai, what are you most afraid of losing you? Financial security. If revenue dips and I'm locked into a salary, I'll panic, but I'm also afraid of losing my sanity if I keep doing this all by myself. Ai, what's a test you could run? you? hire a contractor for three months and see if it actually frees me up before I commit to a full-time salary. 

So notice what just happened. You went from hire or don't hire to test with a contractor. That's not compromise, that's strategy. Because of somebody else being able to ask you thoughtful questions, you were able to find the version that lets you learn instead of guess AI didn't tell you what to do.

It structured your thinking so you could see the path There's a different experience that happens when someone or something asks us the questions instead of us trying to ask it of ourselves. It's the weirdest, simplest separation, but it makes all the difference. 

So here's another quick example. AI asks, what are you actually choosing between? And you say, raising my prices 20% versus keeping them the same, versus creating a new premium tier. And one question asked of you, and suddenly you see you have three options, not two.

So step four, make the call or do the test. in using , this prompt system, you may not hit a hundred percent certainty, and that is fine.

Almost no decision gets that. But after this, you should have enough clarity to either make a choice or design a test that moves you forward without taking the full leap. for real, this framework works for business decisions and it also works for should I leave this partnership? Should I move?

Should I say yes to this weird opportunity that scares me? Any decision where you're stuck in the But what if spiral, this decision making prompt cuts through it. Why does this work? Because girl, you are still, the CEO AI is just holding the whiteboard and asking better questions than your fear voice does.

Quick recap. Dump your decision into ai. Run the three question framework, answer honestly, and then choose your next step or choose a test. pick a decision that's been eating up most of the mental real estate that you've got, the one that's costing you sleep or keeping you reactive.

Run it through this framework today, not to have the perfect answer, but to stop carrying it around like a 50 pound backpack. 

And if you really wanna go deeper and have all of this tied up in a nice, neat little bow, everything that we've been doing during the 12 days of ai, you can grab the 12 days of AI Quick wins toolkit, all the prompts, the templates, the workflows in one guide, and you'll find it at hellodawn.live/day13.

All for just $7 all in one place for you. And day 13 is our live implementation party. You'll get an invite to that, that's where we connect these workflows to your actual business. And I'm also giving away a 90 minute AI strategy intensive, and you can register for free at hellodawn.live/day13.

You'll find the link in the show notes, , and in the meantime, get outta your head, lay it on the table, make the call, or design the test. But either way, get moving. Tomorrow we turn this into a weekly CEO reset.

See you tomorrow with another gift.