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One new piece a week from Tuesday 16 September 2026.
The Record
The month our job volume nearly doubled, and what actually broke
August ran 61 jobs against July's 35 in the same field business, with the same crew. Here is what carried the extra load, what bent, and the one number I refuse to publish.
Wednesday 2 September 2026 · 6 minute read · Read the piece →
What gets published here
Four tracks
Different questions, the same rule: real work, real numbers, in shape not in amounts.
The Record
What we ran in our own companies, what broke, what we changed and what it did to the numbers.
The Standard
How the work is done, written down, so a buyer can hold us to it and a competitor can copy it.
In preparationThe Teardown
A real operation taken apart: where the time leaks, what it costs, and what we would change first.
In preparationThe Field Notes
Short pieces from the week, the small things that only show up when you run the business yourself.
In preparation