BrightZenMetrics — Product Brief
The intelligence, narrative, and conversation layer for seeing every business better.
Weekly-Accounting
BrightZen Metrics — Website Copy Draft
Draft website copy for metrics.brightzen.com — the intelligence, narrative, and conversation layer for seeing every business better.
What Happens in a Startup Business Engineering Work Session
Most founders start their financial model with revenue. That’s backwards. A Startup Business Engineering Work Session starts with the engine.
An AI summary of: Zen and the Art of [nothing]
A review of Zen and the Art of [nothing] — the book that explains why the map we’ve been using for business was drawn before anyone knew the world was round.
What an IFM Sees
I’ve reviewed 30 Integrated Financial Models across a live portfolio. Here’s what the numbers actually reveal — and why it matters to anyone running or financing a business.
The Tangled Web
A business owner told his AI to assume it’s always wrong. Jeff saw the problem instantly. Most people can’t think clearly enough to use AI well — and that’s the business opportunity.
Does Every Transaction Have a Name?
The bottleneck was never knowing what ‘AMZN MKTP US*2K7XY’ means. It was clicking through the interface five hundred times to fix it. Now it’s a few tokens.
I Can't Wait for That to Be the Problem
Jeff’s team lead asked how he’d match transactions to invoices. Jeff didn’t know. He couldn’t wait to find out.
The Best Employee You've Ever Had
John said it near the end of the call: ‘It’s the best employee you’ve ever had — if you talk to it clearly.’ But when wasn’t that true?