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Newest: AI, Honestly: The Playbooks · 7 playbooks

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The Library

Playbooks from our own work.

Each one is a single thing your team can set up this week. Pull one off the shelf.

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AI, Honestly: The Playbooks

Every setup from the AI, Honestly series, written up so you can do it yourself.

7 playbooks, copy and paste

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Your team

The Ritz-Carlton Culture Playbook

How the Ritz-Carlton builds its culture, with five small-team worksheets.

13 pages, 5 worksheets

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Getting found

The Open Loop Carousel

The playbook behind the carousel you could not stop swiping.

6 pages, 1 worksheet

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Tools

The Origin Stack

The four tools that run the business, on one page.

1 page

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The AI Team

Five AI teammates you set up once and put to work.

5 Claude skills and a setup guide

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Your week

The Operating Worksheets

Six one-page worksheets for how your business runs each week.

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Bottleneck threads

Post what is stuck. The answer that worked is marked for the next owner.

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A two-minute check-in

A two-minute check-in with your pod.

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Log a win. Points for helping.

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Find the owner who solved it. Send work both ways.

The Origin Diagnostic

The Origin Diagnostic: 27 questions, and what to fix first.

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The courses

Courses from our client work, being filmed now. Each one opens in the room as it is finished.

Illustrative. Posts and names are examples.

THE SYSTEM DROPIssue 4 · Sep 30

If you took a month off, what breaks first?

  • The month-off test plus a two-minute quiz
  • 74% miss the five-minute window on a new lead
  • 1 in 4 shoppers ask AI first and 11% of businesses are ready
  • Goals reset. Systems don't. The one-line fix.
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The System Drop

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A short email with one setup, the steps, and the prompt or template to do it. Plus the news that changes how you run the business.

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The thinking behind the playbooks.

AI, Honestly

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A video series. Each episode sets up one piece of AI on a real business before you see it, and every episode has its playbook in the Library.

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