Field Notes
Playbooks, not platitudes.
Everything here comes out of live client work — the workflows we ship, the numbers we watch, and the mistakes we stopped repeating.
Marketing · System · SupportThe 7 workflows every service business should automate first
Most teams automate the wrong thing first. Here is the order that actually returns hours in week one.
July 31, 2026
CRM
Why your timeline is lying to you-and how to fix the data
Stale stages, optimistic close dates and duplicate records turn your forecast into fiction.
July 31, 2026 · 5 min
MarketingPaid media in 2026: creative volume beats targeting
Platform algorithms already know who to show your ad to. Your job is to give them enough.
July 31, 2026 · 6 min
Virtual AssistanceWhat a great virtual assistant should own in the first 30 days
Delegation fails without a handover plan. Here is the 30-days ramp we run for clients.
July 31, 2026 · 5 min
CRMThe five-number dashboard every founder actually needs
Most dashboards report activity. These five numbers report health.
July 31, 2026 · 5 min
MarketingWhen to replace three vendors with one pod
Separate agencies optimise their own metric. A pod optimises yours.
July 31, 2026 · 5 min