Operator Briefing
For anyone in ops, supply chain or finance at a brand.
- What's relevant in AI for operations this week
- Tool deep dives with a clear verdict
- A supply chain teardown every issue
A trusted read on AI for operators at $50M–$100M brands, a room of peers putting it to work, and a builder on call when you'd rather not build it yourself.
Executives don't have time to sort what moves the needle from lipstick on a pig.
Teams get comfortable in the chat app, then hit the wall: agents, connected data, workflows the business owns.
Most sessions end at "here's what you could do." The next step is where the leverage is.
Supplier emails, carrier notices, 3PL bids, tariff news. An Operator Desk asks the same plain questions of every item and sorts it by rules you set. It reports the odds; your rules make the call.
What you ship, from where, and your deal-breakers. Thresholds go in plain words; the desk does the math in code.
Yes or no, pick one, or rate it. Relevant to us? Already on the board? Hype, fact or signal? Touches a supplier we depend on?
Decide what comes to you, what gets watched and what gets skipped. Changing a rule re-sorts the board without another AI call.
It drafts and flags; it doesn't commit. Anything that spends money, makes a commitment to a supplier or changes production stops and waits for a person.
Each one is the same system with a different profile, feed and set of questions.
Supplier quotes and factory emails screened against your spec and risk rules.
Fulfillment bids normalized into one comparison and screened against your requirements.
Tariff, port and carrier news sorted into hype, fact or signal for the products you actually sell.
Builds start from the same base desk instead of from scratch.
Start from the empty desk: the board, the rules, the approval points and the logs.
A short written brief: what it works on, what it produces, what it may touch and when it stops to ask.
Point it at your inbox, files or news, then tune the questions until the board matches your judgment.
Written for operators, not engineers. Each lesson ends with a lab on a live desk.
The same system screening M&A deal flow against an investment thesis: typed questions, owner rules and an agent that keeps working. The supply chain desks are being built with the founding cohort.
Start with the briefing. Most members stay in the cohort. Some ask for a build.
For anyone in ops, supply chain or finance at a brand.
For heads of supply chain, COOs and CEOs who want to apply it themselves.
For members who say "I don't have time to build this. Can you?"
Everything after that is scoped once we both know what we're dealing with. No open-ended retainers on day one.
What you want built, or a review of what you've already built and need to take further.
A first version out the door, built for your process instead of a generic one.
Infra, security and upkeep if we run it. We decide up front who maintains it.
Later phases quoted once the audit shows what's needed. A bench of devs for larger work.
| Fluency-only programs | Organized AI for Operators | |
|---|---|---|
| Ceiling | Chat apps for non-technical teams | Chat apps, then agents, connected data and workflows you own |
| Depth | Every department, a session each | Supply chain and operations first, led by a domain operator |
| After the session | Templates to copy | A builder on call to scope and ship it |
| Format | Videos, live calls, a Slack | Cohort sessions plus in-person build nights in Austin |
Ten years building measurement and marketing infrastructure for brands, and two years building agentic systems. Runs the Organized AI community and build nights in Austin.
Supply chain sessions are shaped with an operator who has built and run companies in the space.
Each one names the workflow, what it cost before, what changed, and what still needs a person. Nothing goes up without the member's sign-off.
No. The cohort is built for operators. You'll see real workflows run end to end, and you decide what's worth doing yourself versus handing off.
There's a short course: eight lessons, each ending with a lab on a live Operator Desk, written for operators rather than engineers. There are also recorded lessons from real builds. But the core is the live cohort: your problems, your data, peers at similar brands.
It reads, sorts, flags and drafts. You set the rules for what reaches you. Anything that spends money, commits to a supplier or changes production waits for a person.
Some are worth buying, and the briefing will say which. When your process is the advantage, a build shaped to it usually beats a generic product.
You do. Builds run in your accounts with your data, documented so your team or ours can maintain them.
The founding cohort rate is held for as long as you stay. Later cohorts may be priced differently.
Small group, supply chain and operations leaders first. Tell us where you sit and we'll follow up.