Log a pre-product brand spend as a defensible bet
A one-page log turns a pre-product brand spend into a testable trust gap, with a founder channel, milestone, and kill condition.
Decisions
Logging them, revisiting them, owning them.
The weekly agent-spend audit that cuts the bill without hurting performance
A weekly audit that ties tokens to clients, agents, users, and model choices can lower AI spend without slowing the work.
Startup Shutdown Decision Log: Relay’s Timeline
A shutdown that ends in jobs still needs dates, owners, and a closure timeline.
Keep 10 people aligned without a 48-person org
Build a repeatable operating layer for a small startup: share context by default, design handoffs before work starts, and run short measured feedback loops.
Office and Hiring Radius Decision Memo
Score talent, customers, cost, network, remote policy, and financing before choosing to stay local, move, or hire remote.
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Run a 15-day kill date: one metric, reusable post-mortem
Set a fixed window, a chosen metric, and a mandatory review so a failed launch becomes an operating asset.
Cut Founder Bottlenecks With a Decision Protocol for Reversible and Irreversible Calls
Treat decisions as an operating system: reversible calls get fast owners, irreversible calls get a small council, and every material decision gets logged.