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@kai-morgan · Oct 17

Holiday gift boxes are packed by hand in Leith — two 250 g bags, a brew guide and a card you write. $54, shipping from 20 November.

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@kai-morgan · Oct 15

Behind the scenes: Kai profiling the new Sidamo decaf. Sugarcane process, no chemicals, and it still tastes like coffee. On the shop next week at $19.

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@kai-morgan · Oct 12

Saturday cupping is on again: six seats, $25, coffee and shortbread at the roastery from 10:00. Three seats left as of this morning.

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FocalShift Soft Launch

New task: this is a child · Jul 28

@kai-morgan · Oct 9

Guji lot 4 is back on the roaster this week. Peach, bergamot and a long honey finish — 250 g bags at $18, and the first 40 go out with a tasting card. Roasted Monday, posted Tuesday.

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Creator Podcast Collective

New task: Edit the pilot episode · Jul 17

Story · The Method
@maven-ai · Aug 8 · 6 min read

The one-page brief we ask for first

Free to read: the short brief that replaces a discovery call, and why it is short on purpose.

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Riverside Kiosk Launch

New task: Design the kiosk loyalty punch card · Jul 17

Story · The Method
@maven-ai · Aug 6 · 6 min read

What we check in the first hour

The eight questions that decide whether a process is worth touching at all.

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@maven-ai · Aug 5

Running a free half-day session in Austin this month. Bring one manual process that annoys you; leave with a build plan you could hand to anyone.

Twenty seats. No slides about the future of work.

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Story · Templates
@maven-ai · Aug 2 · 7 min read

The handover checklist, line by line

Every item we hand over, why it is on the list, and the two people who have to sign it.

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Story · The Method
@maven-ai · Jul 31 · 7 min read

What we will not take on

Free to read: three kinds of work we turn down, and the reasoning behind each.

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@maven-ai · Jul 30

Hiring our fourth. Both finalists can build.

Neither has sat in front of a client and said "I do not think you should automate that yet." That is the thing we are actually testing for.

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Story · Build Log
@maven-ai · Jul 29 · 8 min read

Why the second week is where it breaks

Adoption rarely fails on day one. It fails when the person who asked for it goes on leave.

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Story · Build Log
@maven-ai · Jul 25 · 9 min read

Quote turnaround: four hours to twenty minutes

Cedarline Logistics, 11,400 historical lanes, and why cleaning the data was the whole job.

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@hanspaine · Jul 22 · 1 min read

Building the Soft Launch in public: our first week

What we shipped, what broke, and what the first backers taught us.

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Story · Templates
@maven-ai · Jul 22 · 9 min read

Writing the audit scoring sheet

How we score a process before touching it, and what a low score actually means.

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@maven-ai · Jul 20

We retired a proposal template this week. It still offered a "roadmap workshop".

We stopped selling those a year ago because nobody could ever point at what changed afterwards. Took us twelve months to delete the document.

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Jake MillerExampleLVL 5
@jakemiller · Jul 17

Spun up a shared Q3 experiment board out of the Growth Lab thread. If you're running ANY test this quarter — pricing, referral, retention — come log it. Real numbers only. Let's build the experiment log this space deserves.

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Ryan CooperExampleLVL 8
@ryancooper · Jul 17

Shelf-kit preorder went live and I'm floored — 14 prepaid in the first day. Cody was right: presell before you build. Here's a quick shop walkthrough of the walk-up counter I'm fabricating for the Riverside kiosk 👇

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Isla MunroExampleLVL 7
@racheldonovan · Jul 17

Holiday makers' market lineup is coming together and I saved three booths for people from here. Emma's bakery pop-up is confirmed, and Noah sent two vendors who are exactly the right fit. This community fills a market faster than any ad I've ever run.

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Cody RamirezExampleLVL 11
@codyramirez · quoted a post · Jul 16

This is the whole case for the network in one post. Emma ran a foot-traffic study by hand and now half the Riverside team is building her kiosk with her. You do not get that going it alone.

LKLena KerrExample@emmahayes

We counted every person who walked the riverside path for three weekends

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Story · Podcasts
Jordan EllisExampleLVL 1
@jordanellis · Jul 16 · 4 min read

A podcast collective for people who can't afford a producer

Guest booking is where most shows quietly die around episode six. So we built a collective that shares the hard parts — editing, guests, and promo.

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Sarah WhitmanExampleLVL 10
@sarahwhitman · Jul 16

Storefront pricing, summer edition: raise prices now while demand is high, or hold the line to keep loyal regulars happy? Take a side.

Take a side
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Story · The Method
@maven-ai · Jul 16 · 4 min read

The intake form we ran for a year, then deleted

Four fields did the work. The other eleven made the form feel serious and taught us nothing.

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Ashley ParkerExampleLVL 12
@ashleyparker · Jul 16

Growth Lab Q3 experiment log: what should we run our very first test on? Winner gets a whole thread with real numbers.

Final results · 8 votes
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@maven-ai · Jul 15

If your automation only works when the person who built it is in the room, you bought a dependency, not a system.

Handover is the deliverable. We write the doc, record the session, and then deliberately go quiet for a fortnight to see what breaks.

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Lena KerrExampleLVL 9
@emmahayes · updated Jul 15

Riverside Kiosk Launch

A walk-up espresso kiosk on the river — building the counter, the menu, and opening week in the open. Raise your hand.

Tomás ReyesExampleLVL 3
@noahbennett · Jul 15

Three weeks into rebuilding my landing page in the Studio and it finally converts. Small wins compound — thanks for the nudges, everyone.

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Jake MillerExampleLVL 5
@jakemiller · Jul 15

Small win worth sharing: the three-touch follow-up finally clicked. Emailed a quote Monday, texted a photo of the finished sample Wednesday, called Friday morning and booked the job on the call. Third storefront this month that came from just not letting the thread go cold. If you are sitting on a stack of unanswered quotes, this is your sign.

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Tomás ReyesExampleLVL 3
@noahbennett · Jul 14

Tried the three-touch follow-up from Jake's story on 14 cold leads: 5 replies, 2 calls booked. Posting the full sheet tomorrow.

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Ashley ParkerExampleLVL 12
@ashleyparker · Jul 14

Week 2 of the referral-card experiment: 61 cards handed out, 9 redemptions, $214 attributed. Anyone beaten a 15% redemption on paper cards?

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Story · Growth
Jake MillerExampleLVL 5
@jakemiller · Jul 14 · 5 min read

The three-touch follow-up that stopped my leads going cold

Give, give, ask — with the exact timing that carried a one-man shop to its tenth client.

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Story · Local
Cody RamirezExampleLVL 11
@codyramirez · Jul 14 · 4 min read

Winning the neighborhood: what 200 door conversations taught me

The five-minute pitch that turned a laundromat into a pickup point.

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Story · Build Log
Lena KerrExampleLVL 9
@emmahayes · Jul 14 · 9 min read

Week one of the commissary build-out, with receipts

Permits, the $3,100 surprise, and why we tore out the first floor plan before a single oven landed.

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Story · Money
Sarah WhitmanExampleLVL 10
@sarahwhitman · Jul 14 · 8 min read

Pricing without apologizing

Why your rates aren't the problem — your framing is.

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Story · Growth
Jordan EllisExampleLVL 1
@jordanellis · Jul 14 · 7 min read

Podcast guesting as a lead channel

The booking script and the follow-up that turns a guest spot into clients.

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Story · Money
Ryan CooperExampleLVL 8
@ryancooper · Jul 14 · 9 min read

I fired my best client and revenue went up

A hard call, the math behind it, and what replaced the account.

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Story · Growth
Ashley ParkerExampleLVL 12
@ashleyparker · Jul 14 · 11 min read

The $0 launch playbook: how a garage candle brand hit 400 orders in June

No ads, no influencers, no discounts — a four-week sequence built on a waitlist form and two emails that did all the selling.

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Cody RamirezExampleLVL 11
@codyramirez · updated Jul 14

Riverside Coffee Collective

A shared-kitchen coffee incubator for first-time food founders. Three seats left in the fall cohort — looking for a brand designer and two volunteers for the launch weekend.

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Lena KerrExampleLVL 9
@emmahayes · Jul 14 · 6 min read

How I rebuilt my bakery's ordering flow in one weekend

The Saturday-morning line was killing walk-ins. Here is the exact funnel, the form that does the heavy lifting, and the numbers three weeks in.

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