What we learn fixing how businesses run.
Operations, automation, and the systems behind the audit. Notes from the actual work, not theory.
- AI4 min read
Five more Claude skills that run this business
Part two of the stack. One of these interviewed us and found a hole in our own operations: nobody had ever decided who approves a refund when the founder is offline.
- AI4 min read
The five Claude skills that run this business
We spend most of our time telling operators where AI does not belong. Then we go back to our desks and run the whole business on five Claude skills. The rule that decides which ones get a seat is the same rule we bring to an audit.
- AI5 min read
Building AI is easy. Selling it is the hard part.
We have shipped eleven AI builds, and the same lesson shows up every time. The tool is never what fails. Getting the team to use it is. Here is what kills a build dead on a desk, and what actually closes.
- The Audit5 min read
What an operations audit actually finds
Not a list of software to buy. The same six patterns turn up in almost every business we look at. Here is what we are really hunting for, and which one to fix first.
- Operations5 min read
Seven signs your business runs on one person's memory
If the company stalls the day you step away, you do not own a business. You own a job. Here are the seven signs, and the one thing they all have in common.
- Engineering5 min read
Six ways a vibe-coded app quietly breaks
AI can build you an app in a weekend. It can also hand you six kinds of debt you will not see until it is live and someone is depending on it. Here is what a code audit finds.
- Operations5 min read
Business operations 101, explained like a kitchen
Most owners cannot name the six things their business actually runs on. That is operations, the work that gets done every day. Here it is, explained like a kitchen so it finally clicks.
- Operations4 min read
Business operations 102: you don't have a growth problem
Good operations feel like nothing. Bad ones cost you every single day. Five reasons your operations make or break the business, plus the one cook quietly holding it all together.
- AI5 min read
Where AI actually pays, and where it just burns cash
Most of the money businesses spend on AI is wasted. Not because the AI is weak, but because it is pointed at the wrong work. Here are the five places it earns its keep.
- Sales4 min read
The one question that changed how we sell
We spent years walking into pitches and listing everything we could build. Then someone stopped us mid-sentence with five words, and the work got lighter.
- AI5 min read
The GTA 6 money map: seven AI plays before launch
GTA 6 is projected to be the biggest entertainment launch in history. Last time, builders made millions with zero AI. This time one person with the right stack can do what took whole teams.
- AI4 min read
Six open-source agents that show where this is heading
We read the trending repos so the businesses we work with do not have to. This month the signal was loud: AI agents are done being demos. They are growing into narrow, production tools.
