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Field notes from the practice

Insights

Short, honest reads. No thought-leadership theater.

A few times a quarter we publish notes from live engagements — anonymized, but drawn from the messy middle of real work. Below is the current archive.

Pricing · Nov 2025

The four pricing mistakes we see in nearly every SMB

Under-pricing by anchoring to cost, packaging that hides value, discounting to close instead of to segment, and pricing that never evolves. Here's how to spot and fix each one.

Operations · Sept 2025

Why your 20-person team feels like 60 people

Coordination cost grows faster than headcount. A short diagnostic to figure out whether you actually need to hire — or whether you need to rebuild three workflows first.

Strategy · July 2025

The two-page strategy that beats the 40-page plan

A template we use in nearly every engagement. If your leadership team can't say the strategy out loud in one paragraph, it isn't a strategy yet.

Finance · May 2025

Unit economics for people who hate spreadsheets

You don't need a CFO to run this once a quarter. A simple back-of-envelope method to know whether your growth is actually paying for itself.

Leadership · March 2025

Firing well: the meeting nobody teaches you to run

Ten years of notes on how to end an employment respectfully, legally, and with as little collateral damage as possible.

Research · Jan 2025

How to run a 30-interview buyer study without losing a month

Templates, screener language, and a scheduling rhythm that lets a small team ship a real research project in four weeks.

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