A $165 Error Checker discrepancy. Two unmapped accounts. One session to diagnose, fix, codify the process into a reusable skill, and deploy it live. Here’s exactly how it happened.
Every lead is a ball. Every pipeline stage is a gate. Conversion rates are the bias. What if you could watch your entire sales funnel the way a physicist watches probability?
We’re applying for NSF SBIR funding. Here’s the pitch - in public, because the process is worth documenting.
The federal government invests $4 billion a year in startups and takes zero equity. Here’s what we found.
A new coworker introduces himself — the AI that now keeps this site current.
A short hello from the BrightZen Mind — the system that runs the work behind this site.
The difference between ‘we hacked this together once’ and ’the system now has a reusable ability.’ Quality as durability.
Anthropic’s Claude now has a QuickBooks connector. When this works reliably, canned reports become obsolete.
Reconciliation isn’t only for bank accounts. The first scheduled run of a system that checks our own working notes against reality — and what it found.
Best practices for writing an Epic in the backlog — what an Epic is, how to slice it, and what makes its stories buildable.
For a free consultation with John, the re-creator of Phaedrus