See your AI assistant at work
Nine short conversations with Sam, who runs a made-up distribution company. Each one ends with something he can act on.
- 01 Advisory Board
Make the big call with a clearer head
- Hear five views, from finance to your customers
- Find out what the views disagree on
- Know what proof you need before you spend
- 02 Plan
Turn a decision into a plan you can hand over
- Answer three questions, get a phased plan
- An owner and a deadline on every task
- Spot the review date that can't slip
- 03 Premortem
Find out how it fails, before it does
- Six ways your plan could fail, in plain words
- Know which failure is most likely
- One change to make before you sign
- 04 Three Orders
See the knock-on effects
- Follow a decision three to five years out
- Catch the effect you did not plan for
- One question to settle before you sign
- 05 Bottleneck
Find what's really holding growth back
- Name the one step that holds up everything after it
- Rule out the step that only looks like the problem
- Test it in seven days
- 06 Grill Me
Get your pitch grilled before the bank does
- Face the hard questions in private
- Size the ask from your own numbers
- Have answers ready for what the bank will spot
- 07 Time Audit
See where your week actually goes
- Your week sorted by what only you can do
- What to hand off, and what to drop
- Time set aside for growth, with a 30-day check
- 08 Copy Editing
Write it the way you'd say it
- Tighter, and it still sounds like you
- The news up front, where readers look for it
- Change the tone of just the part you want
- 09 First Principles
Check a price rise before you make it
- See who ends up paying for the rise
- Spot the customers who never feel the rise
- Set a few price levels so reps stop asking
