Resources
Resources. Use what's useful.
Templates, scripts, and worksheets I've pulled out of actual engagements. Free, not gated, no email capture. Copy, adapt, ship.
Co-founder state-of-the-union — quarterly prompts
Ninety minutes. No laptops. A cafe neither of you works from. Same five prompts every quarter. The maintenance pattern co-founders use to survive year two.
Decision log — entry template
A six-field format for capturing decisions when you make them. Two minutes per entry. The compounding payoff arrives in month four, when you can read what you used to think.
Quarterly schlep inventory
The unsexy work you've been avoiding because it's annoying, not because it's wrong. Five prompts, a scoring rubric, an assigned-and-dated column. Run it once a quarter to surface what the strategy doc cannot see.
First-hire role definition matrix
Define the job from the gap, not the person. Seven rows, one page. The matrix that would have stopped most of the bad early hires you have heard about, including the ones the founders still defend.
Weekly cadence template
A predictable week is a debugging tool. When something feels off, the cadence shows you where. Standing meetings, async updates, the monthly and quarterly tethers. One page. Hold it for a quarter before changing it.