Audit a 25% Workspace Jump Before Switching
A price jump on your core suite triggers a short audit, a logged decision, and controls that stop the next surprise.
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The stack a ten-person company actually needs.
Put your agent stack on one $200 line item before the ops review
Put agent infrastructure on one flat subscription, choose stop-at-allowance or continue-at-list, and log the decision in the weekly ops review.
The ten-person check for @ChatGPT in Slack
A ten-person checklist for putting @ChatGPT in Slack: allowed channels, licence route, usage tier, and the log that survives a limit change.
Poker Is Solved. The Pool Is Reshuffling — and Only One Side Gets Paid.
Every time a game gets cracked, the pool changes shape — the fish get squeezed, the stakes shift, and the players who trained with the engine get paid by everyone who didn't. Poker's pool is about to change shape. The question isn't whether. It's where you'll be standing when it does.
Three checks before Gemini's default connectors reach your CRM, books, and board
Run a short admin, access, and team-notice audit before the assistant starts pulling from the tools your company depends on.
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10-Person WhatsApp Queue: Count, Map, Log
A checklist for 10-person teams to count weekly WhatsApp messages, match volume to Meta One business tiers, and record buy-now or manual support.
Fathom sale: check the notes path and log the decision
Check plan, transcript destination, follow-ups, export, and decision log after a notetaker acquisition for a small team.
Run the Ten-Seat Copilot Business Decision Before the Discount Ends
Use one checklist to decide who gets Copilot Business, budget the renewal, and avoid buying seats before the promo ends.
Airtable Renewal Date and Export Checklist for Owner Change
Before ownership changes, confirm your renewal date and export the customer, deal, and hiring bases you cannot rebuild quickly.
Buying distribution the way you buy any other tool
You have a process for buying software and none for buying attention. The same rubric works on both, and it ends with a date.
Replace the handoff meeting with a 5-minute Loom recording
A one-minute checklist tells you when a 5-minute Loom video prompt can replace a handoff meeting for visual, bounded, reversible work.
10-person Slack renewal: count AI seats, pick tier
Before renewing Slack, count the seats that actually use AI, calculate cost per active seat, and decide whether Business+ earns its bundle.
How to cost and cap AI coding sessions before your team starts using them
Price each AI coding session as model tokens plus sandbox runtime, then set workspace and per-user caps before the team starts.
Budget time-limited AI discounts twice to avoid the surprise invoice
Model the workload at the promotional rate and the post-expiry rate, then put the expiry in the ops calendar with an owner.
The 10-person voice AI test: when drafting is worth 4x the price
Start on the cheaper voice tier, then upgrade only when structured drafting removes a recurring workflow that costs more than the extra seat fee.
A 5-step ritual to stop unreviewed workflow shipping
A short approval ritual keeps automations from going live until a named reviewer checks scope and tests.
First-Call Voice-Agent Checklist for CRM Notes
Use a screen before a voice agent takes the first sales or support call: scope, knowledge base, scorecard, credits, approval, CRM mapping, and privacy.
How to vet a $120-a-seat digital coworker before it signs into your tools
Treat an agent seat like an operational hire: check plan coverage, shared compute, credential scope, approval gates, cost per seat, and rollback before it signs in.
Grep checklist after Copilot retires six models
Treat model names as dependencies: search code, CI, and agent files for retired names, swap in the named replacements, and verify the selector.
Make Meeting Notes Do the Follow-Up: Tracker, Channel, Tickets
A meeting note is useful only when it updates the tracker, posts the recap, files the tickets, and leaves a human check.
Make coding-agent work reviewable: plan, diffs, sign-off, audit trail
A small team can keep agent output accountable by giving every task a shared channel, a named approver, and an archived record.
One-Week AI Cost Check: Reprice, Calendar, Test
A model price cut is an ops event: inventory the workloads, reprice them, and calendar the expiry with a migration test.