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I keep every agent's job, rules and skills in GitHub, built on the Metronomics maps that run my company. Here is how my Grok Bot agents start, share memory, follow SOPs and work with Claude and ChatGPT.…
A founder who is not an engineer took a software company to cash breakeven in a year, with revenue now growing 20% a month. His method: pick a market you can reach, sell before you build, run cold email as a system, and let AI do the work.…
Most of the AI steps in an automation are not writing anything. They are judging. I tested a model built only for yes-or-no answers against three general AI models. It was at least 17 times faster and 4 times cheaper.…
Most companies treat cash as a finance problem. It is not. The forecast belongs to the people whose work produces it, and this is how that works, month by month, out to three years.…
Competitor knowledge in most founder-led companies is gut feel wearing a suit. The fix is a small discipline: decide who belongs on your list, decide what to know about each, rate your confidence, and keep it alive.…
Most founders carry their market in their head, and every leader carries a different version. The Market Map puts one version on one page: every customer, channel, supplier, competitor, and acquirer, and where the power sits.…
For 25 years I told my team what to do, and stopped them owning their work. The scorecard is the one-page agreement that ends directive management. What it contains, where it comes from, and how the quarterly review turns it into behavior.…
Most performance conversations devolve into opinions about personality because no one has named what good at this job actually looks like as observable behavior. A competency library closes that gap.…