Choose what to get done
AI coding session brief and context file
The founder gets a structured session-brief template plus a populated project-context document so each AI coding session executes against fixed architectural guardrails and logs what it changed, preventing the compounding drift the book warns about.
Alert rule register (with runbook links)
A deduplicated alert rule set where every paging alert links a runbook, cutting alert fatigue and giving on-call an immediate response path.
Bias-guarded interview debrief packet
A structured debrief record that captures independent pre-discussion verdicts, a bias-check, and a consolidated recommendation.
Blameless post-incident review register
A root-cause register where each incident carries a why-chain, a stated root cause, and owned, dated corrective actions, so the same incident does not recur.
Brand-ambassador contest with tasks, points, and rewards
A complete, runnable ambassador-contest spec (the reward ladder, the point-earning task list, the point values, and the win conditions) ready to load into a contest tool.
Candidate work-sample assignment spec
A ready-to-send work-sample assignment with a fixed time box, deliverable definition, and a weighted scoring rubric.
Cash-flow watch register
A structured cash-flow watch register listing the cash metrics to track (cash balance, net burn, runway months, revenue), each with a current value, an alert threshold, a direction, and an accountable owner, so cash flow is monitored obsessively rather than discovered too late.
Cheap parallel channel-test plan with pass/fail thresholds
I get a parallel channel-test plan where every test names one of the 19 canonical traction channels and carries a metric, a small budget, a duration, and a numeric pass threshold, so I can run several cheap experiments at once and read every result the same way.
Clean-code smell scorecard for a method
A per-method clean-code smell scorecard: which thresholds each method exceeds (long method, too many arguments, deep nesting, and more), a 0-100 score, and a pass/warn/fail verdict.
Cyclomatic complexity with refactor flags
McCabe cyclomatic complexity per function from its control-flow graph, with a refactor flag for any that exceed your threshold.
Decision-rights and single-threaded-owner register
Every critical decision and deliverable has exactly one named accountable owner, with advisers/consulted/informed parties and an escalation path explicitly recorded, eliminating diffused 'chicken' accountability.
Defect density per module with ranked hotspots
Defect density per module against your chosen size unit, the overall density, and a ranking of the most defect-dense modules.