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A self-curated daily audio brief — the day's threads pulled together into one short episode. Play the latest, or scroll the archive of past dispatches.
Listen to the dispatchAlso on the playlist: Jay Aldebert of Profit By Design on minimum mandatory profit, break-even, gross margin and reading your P&L.
Play the Jay Aldebert playlistA study app for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam (AIF-C01). Drill a 93-question bank with spaced repetition, sit timed mock exams, track every blueprint objective, and listen to a short podcast on each domain. Installs to your phone and works offline.
Start studyingStep-by-step walk-throughs for keeping a 13-week cash flow model current, written for the owner who runs the numbers because there is nobody else to run them. One action per step, with a check that each step worked.
Open the wizardsBuild your SBA loan package: type in your business facts once and download a lender-ready business plan plus SBA Form 1919 and IRS Form 4506-C already filled in. The guide shows what a lender will ask for and tests your debt coverage; the wizard builds a plan with a financial workbook of projections.
Build my SBA package What you’ll need: SBA loan guide Business plan wizard Bank package (coming soon)The daily scoreboard a real HVAC and plumbing shop runs on: the Wall, the Game, the Goal, revenue pace, and profit drilled down to the individual job. Synthetic numbers shaped like a real shop’s month — frozen and disconnected, so you can see how The Game actually works.
Open the boardA five-part tutorial series: from installing Claude Code through building a QuickBooks Online middleware app, plus the harness and memory habits that make it all click.
Open the seriesFive step-by-step walk-throughs for QuickBooks Online, written for the owner who ends up doing the books himself: enter a bill, match downloaded transactions, reconcile an account, invoice a customer, and clear out aged receivables. Plus a weekly rhythm that keeps it from piling up.
Open the wizardsThe same middleware exercise for shops that do not run QuickBooks: you build it against Contractors Cloud, a construction CRM, through its REST API. Take this one or the QuickBooks one.
Open the exerciseWhat breaks along the way — Plaid vs. Teller, bank reconciliation, Apps Script edge cases, the gap between API docs and API reality.
First post incomingSide-by-side AI bake-offs — same brief, two contestants. First entry: Claude vs. Codex on EAA Chapter 1343, with verdict and strategy memo.
See the bake-offA whitepaper for ISI proposing a trades-focused AI consulting practice — market analysis, SWOT, the Game as the foundational tool, and a three-step launch plan.
Read the proposalA private planning page for our own household. Sign-in by invitation only; there is nothing to see here without one.
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