How real businesses actually run.
One business or one decision per episode. How it works, what it costs, where it breaks, and how a smaller business could use it. Every episode comes with a free playbook.
Which Parts of Your Business Are Actually Worth Automating?
[Two sentences: the business, the decision the owner faced, and the number that shows what changed.]
All episodes
How This Business Runs When the Owner Is Away
Who does the work, who makes the calls, and the one job the owner still keeps.
Your Team Keeps Asking You Everything. Here's What to Change.
Every question that lands on your desk is a decision you haven't handed over yet.
Why More Customers Can Make a Business Less Profitable
Growth feels like progress until the margin on each new customer quietly turns negative.
The Change That Stopped Every Decision Coming Back to the Founder
One change to who decides what, and what it took to make it stick.
The 5 Numbers an Owner Should Check Every Monday
Stop reading twelve reports. The five numbers that tell you how the business is really doing.
Every episode runs the same way.
So you always know where the useful part is, and you always leave with something to do.
- 01
The decision
The problem or choice the owner faced.
- 02
The business
The company, the owner and the people doing the work.
- 03
The mechanism
How it works, with the numbers that matter.
- 04
The trade-offs
What it cost, where it falls short, and the alternatives.
- 05
Your version
How a smaller business could apply it.
- 06
The playbook
The steps and a template to run it yourself.