Field Notes

Documentation from someone actually in the work.

Essays, frameworks, and short reads. No theory. Each piece is something I'm running right now — on a floor, in a CRM, in a Zoom — and writing down so the system survives the next hire.

Revenue Ops · Featured

The Daily Pulse: the one report that lets a coaching founder sleep at night.

Bookings vs. shows, deposits secured, cash collected — three numbers, sent before the first call of the day. Here's the exact format I run for Community of Closers and how it caught a 22% conversion dip the week it happened.

8 MIN READFEB 2026
Closing

How asking the “right” questions in discovery is killing your close rate.

Budget, timeline, pain — I had all three. The deal still died. The fix wasn't more questions; it was learning what the prospect's words actually meant in their head, not mine. A short essay on the diagnostic gap.

5 MIN READJAN 2026
Cross-Pillar

The 0-1-2 — the three numbers we wrote on the wall before episode one.

Vision capacity. Willingness to do what 99% won't. Volume. From the 0 to X studio: why this is the only operating framework Daniel and I have ever needed, and why it survives every domain we've thrown it at.

6 MIN READDEC 2025
Operations

Weekly debriefs that actually change next week's ads.

The 12-line format I run with the marketing team — what objections trended, which segments converted, what hooks died. The output is a one-page brief that flows directly into the ad rotation.

7 MIN READNOV 2025
Closing · Featured

One-call closes on $2K, multi-stakeholder on $10K — the cycle difference.

What changes between a single-decision-maker call and a three-stakeholder cycle. The discovery shifts, the close shifts, the follow-up shifts. Concrete language from real engagements.

9 MIN READOCT 2025
Building

Why I built Remit instead of buying a CRM.

Commission management for high-ticket teams on installment plans is a category most CRMs don't model well. Here's the architecture I built for Community of Closers and the three business rules that wouldn't fit anywhere else.

10 MIN READSEP 2025
The Operator's Dispatch

Field reports from inside the work, every Sunday.

Frameworks, debriefs, dashboards, and the occasional uncomfortable truth. No motivational hype. No "5 ways to crush it." Just what I'm actually running, what I'm fixing, and what's compounding.

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