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Ninety days, one leakIf nothing can be paused, there is no strategy.

Annual roadmaps and weekly panic can live in the same company. Fractional work exists to pick the leak that costs the most — demand, conversion, show-up, delivery, or retention — and ship weekly until a system runs without a hero in the room. Interns keep the scoreboard. CEOs kill the other three projects.

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In plain words

Intern through CEO

Name the leak in one sentence. Instrument it if you do not trust the numbers.

  1. 01

    Name the leak in one sentence. Instrument it if you do not trust the numbers.

  2. 02

    Pause three projects that do not serve it. This is the whole job of a CEO in a sprint.

  3. 03

    Done means a system with an owner and a Monday number — not a longer Notion.

Who

Same lesson. Three jobs.

Read your row

Intern

What you actually do

Run steps 01 and 02 this week. Do not add a feature. One. Not a theme cloud.

Operator

What you protect

Protect the sequence. Pause three projects that do not serve it. This is the whole job of a CEO in a sprint.

CEO

What you refuse to fund

Do not fund more traffic or more seats until the scoreboard in this lesson is a number you will defend. Done means a system with an owner and a Monday number — not a longer Notion.

Steps

Do this in order

Why, then done when
  1. 01

    Pick the expensive leak

    One. Not a theme cloud.

    Why: Two priorities is how both stall.

    Done when: A sentence everyone can repeat.

  2. 02

    Instrument if needed

    If the number is folklore, week one is measurement.

    Why: You cannot sprint on a vibe.

    Done when: A believed baseline.

  3. 03

    Weekly ship

    One thing live per week. Minimum.

    Why: Slide decks substitute for shipping.

    Done when: A changelog.

  4. 04

    Kill criteria

    What would make you stop this path.

    Why: Otherwise you will complete a bad plan politely.

    Done when: Written. Dated.

  5. 05

    Handoff notes

    If the operator leaves, the system stays.

    Why: A sprint that only lives in one head is a contractor, not a system.

    Done when: A page a new intern could run.

The pause list

Write the three projects you will not touch. If you cannot name them, you have not chosen a leak. You have chosen a mood.

Why

Questions people actually ask

Pushback is normal

Why 90 days, not a year?

A year is where panic hides. Ninety days is long enough to install a sequence and short enough that you cannot hide.

Apply

Use-case pages for this leak

Growth systems

Working notes

90-Day Growth Diagnostic

Pick the one sequence that deserves the next 90 days. Request the file. It arrives by email — not a public dump, not a drip of slogans.

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Next

If the leak is expensive, talk.

Email and WhatsApp stay open. A call is for installing the system.