Door 01. Build It.

Nothing exists yet. Let’s build it properly.

Some problems don’t have an existing system to fix, because there isn’t one. That’s a different job: designing something from nothing, built around how the work actually happens rather than how a template assumes it happens.

Tell me what needs building →
Figure VI: on the left, a template building with rooms that the real workflow has to cut through. On the right, the same workflow with the walls built around its actual path. ××××× The template Built around the work the work has to fit the box. every × is a wall it cuts through. trace how the work really moves, then put the walls either side of it. so instead start done
Fig. VIPlan the walls around the path, never the path around the walls.
How it works.

Plainly.

  1. 1 Define exactly what the system needs to do. And just as importantly, what it doesn’t.
  2. 2 Build it around your actual workflow, not a generic best-practice template.
  3. 3 Hand it over working, so you keep using it without needing me back every week.
As built.

What this looks like in practice.

a · a system from scratch A HubSpot applicant tracker built from nothing, so no candidate falls through a gap between inbox, spreadsheet and memory again.
b · an automation built A FileMaker automation that runs a twelve-step daily sequence end to end, on schedule, without anyone remembering to start it.
c · a tool built A Webflow CMS rebuilt around the team’s real workflow, so content updates happen in-house in minutes, not a developer week.
wrong door? Fix It, something exists and it’s failing → Train It, your team needs to think with AI →