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But we are proud to say that Jordan Bevans contributed 20 entries already.
Most not-for-profit leaders we work with can describe the hire they wish they had sequenced differently. Usually the role looked obviously needed. A program was bursting at the seams, the waitlist was real, a grant had just come through, and the board agreed the team was stretched. So the offer went out. Six months later […]
Every architecture firm principal we work with can describe the hire they regret. Usually it was made on utilisation. The studio was slammed, three projects were all in construction documents at once, the project architects were working weekends, and a strong candidate came through a referral. The offer went out. Six months later, gross profit […]
If you run a creative agency and you’re searching for when to hire, you already know the feeling that prompted the search. The studio is slammed. Your senior designer worked two weekends in a row. An account lead is juggling four clients and dropping the ball on one of them. A retainer just upgraded and […]
Every services founder we work with can describe the hire they regret. Usually it was made on utilisation. The team looked busy, the pipeline looked healthy enough, the conversation with the prospective hire went well, and the offer letter went out. Six months later, gross profit margin was down five to eight percentage points, cash […]
One of the more consequential decisions a not-for-profit leader inherits is quietly the one the organisation thinks about least: which accounting method the books actually run on. Most executive officers and boards we meet never chose it deliberately. It was set in the early years, on the advice of whoever was configuring Xero at the […]
The accounting method an architecture firm runs on gets decided once, usually in the first year, usually by whoever set up the Xero file, and then it sits there unexamined while the practice grows around it. For a lot of firms that original call was cash basis, because cash basis is simple and a one-person […]
One of the more consequential decisions a creative agency founder will make in the first few years is quietly the one they think about least: which accounting method their books actually run on. Most agency founders we meet settled the question in month three, on the advice of whoever was setting up Xero for them […]
One of the more consequential decisions a services founder will make in the first few years of the business is quietly the one they think about least: which accounting method their books actually run on. Most services founders we meet settled the question in month three, on the advice of whoever was setting up Xero […]
Visualisation AI is visible. Operational AI is where the practice makes money. Four architecture workflows to standardise first, then automate.
Most agencies adopt AI by handing the team ChatGPT. The returns come from standardising four workflows first, then automating the pattern-matching steps.
