Working documents, not decks

Six documents. No email required.

Every one of these came out of an actual job. Nobody sat in a room with a whiteboard and invented them. Open it, print it, take it into the meeting where the real conversation happens. If it’s useful, keep it.

Innovation

The Skunkworks Protocol

Innovation without permission

How to build the thing everyone keeps talking about and nobody ships. Keeping it separate from the machinery that would otherwise kill it, one name answerable, and a hard deadline for a working prototype.

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Technical

Technical Due Diligence Checklist

50-point Series A/B audit framework

Fifty questions across team, architecture, process, infrastructure, security and monitoring. Use it before you invest in somebody else’s business, or before somebody invests in yours.

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Leadership

The Executive Leverage Matrix

Do you need a badge or a brain?

The plain arithmetic on fractional leadership. When a full-time hire is the right call, when it’s dead weight with a company car, and what getting it wrong actually costs.

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Strategy

The Assumption Ledger

What you know vs what you hope

Four steps for telling what you actually know from what you’re hoping is true, before you commit to a direction. If you can’t name a test, you don’t have a decision, you have a guess with good posture.

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Operations

The Decision Path

How decisions actually move

Map the route a decision actually takes. The org chart shows a different route entirely. Every handoff that adds time without adding clarity is a delay dressed up as process.

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Strategy

The Counterfactual Test

Pressure-test the story

Five questions to find the blind spots before momentum carries everyone past them. If you can’t answer them in one sitting, the decision isn’t ready to ship.

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