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Rubrics, checklists and decision frameworks for running AI inside a founder-led company. Written for the person deciding, not the person building. No signup.

10 guidesNo email requiredUpdated 2026-08-18
Quality · 7 min read

The 6-Point Check For AI Work Before It Leaves Your Company

Most AI failures don't look like errors. Here's how to grade output you didn't build, and turn it into an error rate you can actually act on.

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Operations · 6 min read

The 30-Minute AI Inventory: What Is Running In Your Business And Who Owns It

Four questions, four groups, one specific order. Surfaces the undocumented setup carrying real volume before the person running it resigns.

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Decisions · 6 min read

Build It In-House Or Buy It: 7 Questions That Decide

The strongest predictor of this decision is question one, and it points away from hiring anyone. Includes the four cases where we're the wrong call.

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Visibility · 8 min read

An AI Visibility Baseline In Full: What One Real Business Scored

They ranked fine on Google and were named in 2 of 10 AI answers. Both hits were branded queries. The split is the finding, and one blended score would have hidden it.

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Visibility · 6 min read

How AI Engines Decide What To Cite: What Is Actually Documented

Blocking GPTBot is not blocking the bot that decides whether you appear in ChatGPT. Six documented facts, each linked to the company that published it.

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Security · 7 min read

Before You Connect AI To A Tool That Can Act As You: 6 Checks

You can lock down your own AI completely and still have a connected tool act as you. Here's why, and the six checks that catch it beforehand.

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Decisions · 6 min read

What An AI Agent Actually Costs To Install (And Why Quotes Vary 5x)

Count the systems it has to touch. That number drives the price almost linearly, and a quote given without asking it hasn't been scoped.

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Operations · 6 min read

The 4 Ways An AI System Fails Without Telling You

Enabled isn't healthy. Four failure modes that all pass a liveness test and all fail a truth test, plus what to demand in the scope before you sign.

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Decisions · 7 min read

Five Ways To Get AI Work Done, And Who Each One Is Actually For

The honest version of a comparison table. Six deciding criteria, the real trade-off for each option, and an explicit recommendation per case.

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Decisions · 6 min read

Who Shouldn't Hire MarqueeOS: 6 Disqualifiers

The disqualification list. Six situations where we're the wrong call, named plainly, each with the honest alternative and no call required.

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Why these are free

Everything here is judgment: what to check, what the answers mean, how to decide. That part isn't scarce and charging for it would be strange.

What takes weeks is connecting the systems a business already runs so the checks happen on a schedule instead of when someone remembers. That's the engagement. The thinking is yours either way.

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