Guides · Operator playbooks
Practical guides for running companies with AI teammates.
No thought-leadership. Just systems, cadences, and field-tested frameworks from teams operating 10+ products with a handful of people.
Playbooks and guides
Systems, cadences and field-tested frameworks for running more products than people.
Autonomous engineering · 8 min read
AI that drafts pull requests from your error reports
When a Sentry error fires, most teams triage manually. An AI teammate that reads the error and drafts the pull request cuts your bug backlog in half. Here's how it works.
Read →Portfolio operations · 12 min read
How to run 10+ products with a 5-person team (2026 playbook)
A field playbook from studios running 10+ live products with 5-person teams. The systems, cadences, and AI teammates that make portfolio operations actually work.
Read →Operating cadence · 9 min read
The morning brief for founders
The morning brief is where founders lose or gain the day. Here's how to automate it so you start every morning with signal, not noise, across every product you ship.
Read →Memory architecture · 10 min read
Shared memory across AI agents
When you run multiple AI agents in a company, memory has to be shared or the agents contradict each other. Here's why it matters and which products actually do it well.
Read →Operating theory · 11 min read
From founder time to agent time
Founder time is scarce and doesn't scale. Agent time is cheap and does. Here's a working theory of which parts of a founder's day belong to which.
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Concepts
What the words mean, and how the categories differ.
Definition · 5 min read
What is an AI COO?
An AI COO is an AI system that acts as a chief operating officer for a company, making operating decisions, holding institutional memory, and acting through specialist agents. For multi-product studios, it operates across the whole portfolio.
Read →Definition · 7 min read
What is an AI employee?
An AI employee is an AI system that owns work, not just tasks. See how AI employees work in 2026, real examples, and why portfolio operators need a different kind.
Read →Definition · 5 min read
What is a company brain? A founder's guide (2026).
A company brain is where your company's memory, decisions, and execution converge. See how it works and which tools do it well in 2026.
Read →Definition · 5 min read
What is portfolio operations?
Portfolio operations is the discipline of running multiple live products as one coherent operation, shared decisions, shared memory, shared cadence, instead of treating each title as its own silo.
Read →Taxonomy · 5 min read
AI agent vs AI employee vs AI coworker.
Three category names, three different products. See what each actually means and how to pick the right one for your team.
Read →Comparison · 6 min read
AI COO vs AI employee: the difference, explained.
An AI employee owns a role. An AI COO orchestrates roles across a company. Here's when you need which, and why the answer depends on your ops.
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