Playbooks
Operator Playbooks
Structured learning tracks for founders and operators who want the reasoning behind growth, finance, retention, and execution decisions. Use them as self-serve guides or as context before an advisory engagement.
SaaS Fundamentals
Master the 8 core numbers that determine whether your SaaS business will survive or die. Every founder and PM must know these cold.
Startup Survival Kit
The essential concepts that determine if you run out of cash. Master cash flow, burn rate, break-even, and the unit economics of survival.
From Idea to Product
Learn how to validate your idea, build an MVP, find product-market fit, and choose the metric that drives your entire company.
The Growth Engine
Understand how pricing, retention, market sizing, competitive advantages, and GTM strategy combine to create a compounding growth machine.
Marketing & Growth
Build a marketing engine that compounds over time. From content to SEO to funnel optimization — learn how the best startups grow without burning cash.
Product Mastery
Learn to build what matters: from MVP validation to roadmap prioritization, product analytics, and the metrics that predict success or failure.
After: From Idea to Product
Retention Mastery
Master the full retention stack: from first-touch onboarding to long-term health monitoring. Learn why the fastest-growing companies obsess over keeping customers, not just acquiring them.
After: Startup Survival Kit
Internal Tool Development Fundamentals
Learn how to scope, design, build, and deploy custom tools that actually get used. From identifying the right problem to post-launch adoption.
After: Operations Excellence
Building & Leading Teams
Master the leadership skills that scale: hiring right, delegating effectively, setting goals with OKRs, running lean, and automating what you can.
Operations Excellence
Scale your operations efficiently: plan capacity, make smart build vs buy decisions, eliminate waste, and automate everything that doesn't require human judgment.
After: Building & Leading Teams
Leadership Foundations
The 5 pillars of startup leadership: build teams, shape culture, make decisions, hire right, and delegate effectively. From first-time manager to CEO-level thinking.
Strategic Moats & Growth Engines
Understand the four pillars of durable competitive advantage: network effects, flywheels, switching costs, and GTM strategy. Learn why some companies become impossible to displace.
After: The Growth Engine
Unit Economics Deep Dive
Go beyond the basics: master cohort analysis, expansion revenue, and contribution margin — the advanced metrics that separate surviving startups from thriving ones.
After: SaaS Fundamentals
Advanced Business Strategy
Equip yourself with elite strategic frameworks. Understand industry forces, find uncontested market space, map your business model, and choose the right monetization motion.
After: The Growth Engine
AI Implementation Roadmap
From discovery to scale: audit AI readiness, identify high-ROI use cases, design safe implementations, and measure impact. Practical AI, not hype.
After: Operations Excellence
Process Automation Playbook
Eliminate waste and manual coordination. Design workflows where tasks trigger automatically, data flows without human intervention, and decisions are smarter.
After: Operations Excellence
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