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All writing 18 pieces

From High-Growth Chaos to a Real Business

How Eugenio doubled Huecco, cut churn from 25% to under 10%, and built a team and process that runs without him.

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Out of ops in 3 months and churn down from 20% to 5%

How Frosted's CEO Sam Saifi and COO Jason went from $70K to $100K MRR with the founder out of ops, no new hires.

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From $140K to $300K MRR with both founders out of the weeds

How Growthub, a $1.5M creative agency, more than doubled MRR while both co-founders stepped out of the daily firefighting.

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AI anxiety, and how to get 5x ROI from it

No fear-mongering. The shift that turns AI from a threat into return is rebuilding the delivery model, not bolting tools onto the team.

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After 2.5 years building, we're shutting it down

The truth about our own business, and why we're rebuilding the agency from scratch to be AI-native - documented in public.

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Are you attached to fixing stuff?

The identity trap underneath founder dependency. One question that shows how attached you are to being the one who fixes things.

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Is your agency structured for $1M, $5M, or $10M?

Copying another agency's team structure fails. The four foundations that decide the right structure for your next revenue level.

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How AI-native agencies use SOPs

AI-native teams don't write SOPs the way you do. What changes when the process is built for agents, not only people.

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How AI-native agencies hit 70-90% profit

The structural moves behind margins traditional agencies can't reach, broken down end to end.

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I have a confession to make

I'm not an "ops" expert. What I actually do inside agencies, and why the label misses the point.

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The modern agency team structure is here

Three team structures reshaping agencies right now, and why only one scales past $2M. Which one is your ceiling?

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People or process problem?

Why you keep solving the same issue. How to tell a people problem from a broken system - and stop confusing the two.

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The offer that sells well but scales badly

It doesn't look messy at first. The link between offer architecture and the operational load it creates downstream.

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Take a week off without opening Slack

The founders I work with know what it would take. The structure that lets you disappear for a week while the business holds.

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Good agency talent is rare. Or is it?

The real reason senior hires don't stick, and a framework for assessing, recruiting, and keeping high-performers.

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Why team training doesn't work the way you think

Ownership and skill are not the same transfer. Why training a team rarely produces the result founders expect.

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Why your Head of Delivery hire will fail

The best operators make themselves unnecessary at the performance level so they can work at the architecture level. How to hire for that.

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Why smart founders suddenly feel stuck

Feeling stuck isn't failure. It's a predictable point in the growth cycle, and usually the start of the next breakthrough.

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Field notes on removing the founder from agency operations. Written for founders between $700K and $3M.