The library
Six pieces we are writing first
The firm was founded in 2024 and the writing follows the delivery, not the other way around. Each piece below comes out of work we actually do; they publish as they are finished, and nothing here is padded to hit a word count.
Finance & Capital
The 13-week cash flow model every small business should be running
A monthly P&L tells you what already happened; a rolling 13-week cash forecast tells you what you can afford to decide. We walk through the columns, where each number comes from, and the Friday routine that keeps the model honest in under twenty minutes a week.
Coming soon
Global Expansion
Choosing your first international market: a five-factor scoring framework
Most first expansions are chosen by accident — an inbound lead, a trade show, a founder's passport. This is the scoring sheet we use instead: demand density, cost to serve, payment and currency risk, regulatory drag, and whether a credible partner actually exists on the ground.
Coming soon
Leadership & Org Design
When to hire a fractional executive instead of a full-time one
The real test is not what you can afford this year. It is whether the hardest part of the role is judgement — a few concentrated hours a week of it — or throughput, which needs forty; and what happens to the function on the day that person stops showing up.
Coming soon
Operations & Profitability
Four places margin quietly leaks in a twenty-person company
Discounting is the leak owners go looking for, and it is rarely the biggest one. Rework, silent scope creep on fixed-fee work, delivery hours nobody bills, and vendor terms that have not been renegotiated in years usually add up to more — and each can be closed inside a quarter.
Coming soon
Digital & AI Enablement
Where AI actually pays off in a small business — and where it doesn't
The wins are boring and repeatable: drafting, summarising, classifying and first-pass research on work your team already does every week. The losses come from pointing a model at a process nobody has written down, which is why the process audit has to come before the tool.
Coming soon
Growth & Go-to-Market
Fix the offer before you raise the ad budget
When leads get expensive, the instinct is to spend more or switch channels. The constraint is usually upstream — an offer that asks the buyer to absorb too much risk in a single step — and restructuring what you sell is cheaper, faster and more durable than rewriting how you advertise it.
Coming soon