Operations
Your AI stack is a liability until you write down how it works
Why an undocumented AI stack is debt: what context really means, governance without bureaucracy, a shared skills library over personal prompts, and an afternoon audit.
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Operations
Seven weeks from first commit to shipped
What shipping in seven weeks requires: scope decided before starting, a single owner, cuts treated as the work, market pressure ignored, and a post-ship review that compounds.
Growth
The habit bottleneck: why your team will not use the tools you buy
Why teams ignore the tools you buy: adoption is a habit problem, not a training gap. Attach the tool to an existing daily loop, prove one workflow, measure retention.
Operations
Remote-first from day one
What remote-first requires from day one: writing things down, deciding asynchronously, and the deliberate choices that make a distributed company work rather than allowing it.
Operations
The build-versus-buy line for a services business
A services business hits a wall in year two. The fix is not a new tool stack — it is one honest line between the workflow that is the business and the rest.
Product
Build versus buy for your internal tools
A founder's framework for build versus buy on internal tools: when off-the-shelf is enough, when custom software is worth it, and how to commission a build without wasting money.
Operations
Letting someone go without breaking the team
How founders let someone go without damaging the team: why waiting too long costs more, handling the exit with dignity, and what the people who stay learn from how you do it.
Operations
The founder's weekly review
Why founders need a weekly review: how one honest hour of reflection catches drift early, what to look at, and building the habit that keeps a company pointed the right way.
Operations
The job description that gets your first hire right
How founders write a first-hire job description that works: defining the real role, being honest about stage and scope, and screening for the person a small team actually needs.
Operations
The year after launch: owning, maintaining, and changing custom software
What non-technical founders should settle before launch: code and data ownership, a real handover, and maintenance terms that keep custom software an asset for years.
Money
The cost of running a 10-person agency in Beirut
Beirut offers a structural cost advantage over US-EU hubs for digital agencies, but the savings come with friction that does not show in any line item.
Operations
Performance reviews for small teams: the minimum viable version
Most small teams copy enterprise review systems that are already broken. The fix is a weekly check-in and a quarterly forward-looking conversation.