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The tab problem
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- COLUMN2026-04-10
Operator rituals
The tab problem
Every Friday afternoon looks the same: fifteen tabs, four copies of the same record, and a forecast that needs reconciling before the board call.
5 MIN READ - DOSSIER2026-04-08
Agencies
Lattice Agency closed its stack in eleven days
A forty-person agency retired three tools, cut three spreadsheets, and dropped Friday reconciliation from six hours to forty minutes.
8 MIN READ - MANUAL2026-04-02
Operator rituals
Running the Morning Brief
A six-step framework for turning a generated brief into a decisive morning ritual your team actually keeps.
11 MIN READ - RESEARCH2026-04-01
Industry research
State of the Operating Stack · 2026
A year-long study of 412 mid-market companies and how their operating stacks evolved between 2024 and 2026.
18 MIN READ - COLUMN2026-03-28
Platform engineering
What "one source of truth" actually means
It is not a dashboard that reads from ten systems. It is one system that writes once. The difference is what makes AI answers trustworthy.
6 MIN READ - DOSSIER2026-03-22
Healthcare
Northwind Health cut its close from five days to two
A healthcare SaaS company unified finance, ops and revenue onto one memory and cut its monthly close by 58% — without changing the close team.
7 MIN READ - RESEARCH2026-03-18
Platform research
Grounded AI Benchmark · 2026
How 47 AI features across operating tools performed when asked questions against their own live data.
15 MIN READ - COLUMN2026-03-14
Platform engineering
Why we event-sourced everything
Every change in Aixys is an immutable event. That lets us replay history, time-travel the UI, and keep AI answers honest.
9 MIN READ - MANUAL2026-03-12
Operations
Consolidating Your Stack
A six-phase field guide for moving a mid-market stack onto a single operating surface — without disrupting the quarter.
14 MIN READ - PAPER2026-03-08
Platform
Event-Sourced Operations
How to build a company memory that is queryable, time-travelable, and auditable by default.
24 MIN READ - DOSSIER2026-03-05
Studios
Prospero Studio made Aixys its only open tab
A late-stage game studio replaced seven tools with one operating axis. Six months later, the CEO still has one tab open.
9 MIN READ - COLUMN2026-02-22
Operator rituals
On not quite replacing Slack
We did not build a better chat app. We built a place for threads to live against the records they belong to.
5 MIN READ - RESEARCH2026-02-22
Finance research
Time-to-Close Benchmark · 2026
Monthly close durations across 186 mid-market finance teams, correlated with stack architecture.
12 MIN READ - MANUAL2026-02-18
AI
Grounded AI in Your Workflow
A five-step framework for adopting AI features that your team will actually trust — and the three you should reject outright.
10 MIN READ - DOSSIER2026-02-14
Finance
Meridian Capital ran a fund on one memory
A mid-market PE firm consolidated deal sourcing, diligence, portfolio monitoring and LP reporting into a single operating surface.
10 MIN READ - COLUMN2026-02-08
Industry
The stack must close
A longer essay on why the decade of SaaS proliferation is ending, and what replaces it.
12 MIN READ - PAPER2026-02-03
AI
Grounded AI in Production
A practical standard for citation-backed AI features in operating tools, with a checklist for builders and buyers.
20 MIN READ - RESEARCH2026-01-28
Operator research
Operator Rituals · 2026
A qualitative + quantitative study of the daily, weekly and monthly rituals operators run in consolidated vs fragmented stacks.
14 MIN READ - COLUMN2026-01-21
Operator rituals
The Morning Brief ritual
Why the best founders we work with spend six minutes every morning with a generated brief, and what it replaces.
4 MIN READ - DOSSIER2026-01-18
Retail
Ember Retail unified twelve storefronts on one memory
A multi-brand retail group ran 12 storefronts on six separate stacks. In eighteen weeks, every store shared one inventory and one customer memory.
8 MIN READ - MANUAL2026-01-10
Company
Running the Wednesday Council
How we run the weekly operator call that has replaced most of our one-to-one meetings for two years.
8 MIN READ - PAPER2025-12-17
Strategy
The Stack Consolidation Playbook
A sequenced approach to retiring operational tools without disrupting the operators who depend on them.
18 MIN READ - COLUMN2025-12-14
Company
The Council is not a beta
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5 MIN READ - DOSSIER2025-12-02
Startups
Orrery Labs went from founding team to Series A on Aixys only
A four-person founding team ran everything — engineering, sales, finance, hiring — on one operating axis from day zero.
6 MIN READ - COLUMN2025-11-02
Company
Hiring for the studio
Why we refuse to post open-ended "we’re always hiring" reqs, and what we look for when we do open a role.
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