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I am an operator and a builder. I co-founded OpenExO with Salim Ismail, taught at Singularity University from 2013, and build Founder OS, an AI operating system for business owners. I write about AI leverage and operational architecture, and my book Founder Scaled is the playbook for building a business worth buying, even if you never sell.
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You built a real business. Revenue, customers, a team that works. And the strengths that built it are now the constraints that limit it, because too much of the operating model still lives in your head.
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The AI-powered playbook for building a business worth buying, even if you never sell. A 24-month path to a business that runs without you.
On AI leverage and operational architecture. The full archive is on the blog, with search.
AI made writing code cheap and left finishing work expensive. The fix is a slice: one unit of work, owned start to finish by one person, named in the customer's language. Two real cases, Goldratt and Meadows on why it works, and a guide to cutting your first one.
Everybody is calling everything an agent now. The word has stopped carrying information. Agency comes from five dials you install around a model, and you turn them one at a time.
AI collapsed software engineering, product, and design into one circle. The person you want to hire stands dead center. Screen for traits instead of titles, test with projects instead of interviews, and build the few.
You can recite the token bill to the dollar. What the spend returned is the half almost nobody publishes, and you can put a number on it this quarter.
Open weights, read for an operator. The move is not picking the smartest model. It is mastering the mix: route each job to the model that wins it, closed frontier for the hard fifth, open weights for the rest, on terms you own.
AI job panic set against ten thousand years of technology waves, from the cooking fire to the switchboard. The catch the cheerful version hides: the aggregate recovers, but the displaced cohort often does not. Two questions, not one, and a source behind every claim.
The AI-Powered Playbook for Building a Business Worth Buying, Even If You Never Sell.
For founders of $5M to $25M businesses who have become the bottleneck. A 24-month path to systematize your expertise, deploy AI to amplify your people instead of replacing them, and reduce your dependency until you own a business worth buying, whether or not you ever sell.
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