Agency operations
Meeting-free Tuesdays: a 4-week protocol
Pick a Tuesday. Cancel everything. Tell the team it’s meeting-free for the next four. That’s the whole protocol — here are the details.
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Blog
Field notes for small high-output teams.
Three pillars: deep work for teams, AI-augmented operations, agency operations. One essay per cluster every two weeks.
Deep work for teams
Killing ghost tasks: SSoT for small teams
A ghost task is one Jira, Linear, and Slack all describe differently. They cost ~3 hours per Builder per week — fix them by picking one tool.
REPLACE — Founder 2 nameAI-augmented operations
Explainable AI for operations: signals, not summaries
AI productivity dashboards fail because nobody trusts a number that won’t explain itself. The fix is to surface the signals, not the score.
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Why your AI agency runs slower at 12 people than at 6
At six people, everyone knows what everyone is doing. At twelve, nobody does — and the founder becomes the bottleneck on shipping.
REPLACE — Founder 1 nameDeep work for teams
Focus Ratio: the only productivity metric that matters
Focus Ratio is the share of your team’s hours spent in deliberate single-task focus. Track this one number and you can stop measuring everything else.
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