Practical Playbooks for Building with AI, Raising Capital, and Running Lean
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First 90 days after you hire a controller
Use the first 90 days after you hire a controller to install a close packet, a close calendar, and a named forecast owner. The CEO does not keep it by default.
Run a 13-week cash meeting that actually decides
Run the 13-week cash meeting to decide, not to recap. One owner, one packet 24 hours early, and a kill-or-keep list every week.
Local Mac coding agents: when Claude Code still wins
Wire Hugging Face models through LM Studio into OpenCode or DeepSeek Harness. What M5 Pro vs Max changes, and when Claude Code still wins.
Self-Advocacy at Work: Setting Boundaries That Hold
Self-advocacy at work means owning your boundaries, your communication, and your well-being instead of waiting for your company to do it for you.
Building a Strengths-Based Team Culture
Using StrengthsFinder for team culture means building roles, delegation, and accountability around what each person naturally does best at work.
How to Make Training Stick: The One-Takeaway Method
Most of what you learn in training is gone within a month, not because the training was bad, but because implementation was never actually planned.