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Notes on AI systems for small teams.

Practical notes on AI systems for founders and small teams. No buzzwords.

FUNDAMENTALSNOTE 01 · PUBLISHED

What is operational leverage? The small-business version.

The same team, more done, because systems do the repeated part. The working definition we use with every client, and how to spot where yours is hiding.

≈ 6 MIN READ · READ THE POST →

THE SAME TEAM, WITH SYSTEMS

BY HANDWITH SYSTEMS
DIAGNOSISPUBLISHED

The business bottleneck audit: a 5-step guide for solopreneurs

How to find the one slow step that is actually costing you, before buying another tool. The same method behind our diagnostic.

≈ 7 MIN READ · READ THE POST →

AIDRAFT

Where AI belongs in a business process, and where it does not.

Reading, sorting and drafting: yes. Checking totals and dates: plain code. The final say: a person. A simple way to draw the line.

≈ 8 MIN READ

AIDRAFT

How much should you trust an AI decision? Setting the limits.

A clear yes above a high limit, a clear no below a low one, and a person for everything in between. How to pick the limits from your own past cases.

≈ 7 MIN READ

AIDRAFT

Small model or big model? Picking the right one for each step.

The cheap model for the easy questions, the big one only where quality is made. What that does to the cost of a whole process.

≈ 7 MIN READ

SUPPORTDRAFT

Customer messages: what one person can handle in an hour, with and without help.

Eight to ten messages an hour by hand, thirty to forty with a system that reads, looks up and drafts. The arithmetic, with the assumptions.

≈ 6 MIN READ

AIDRAFT

Should you switch AI models? A simple test before you do.

Take a sample of real past items, run the new model with the same instructions, and count the decisions that would change. Then decide.

≈ 6 MIN READ

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