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Notes on plans that keep thinking
Short essays on evidence-led planning, document craft, and the difference between a file you wrote once and a document that argues back.
Latest · Thinking plans
The plan that keeps thinking
Most plans die the day they are printed. A thinking plan re-reads its own evidence, tells you what moved, and proposes the edit.
24 August 2026 · 6 min read
Thinking plans
A SWOT is worthless without the word 'because'
Four boxes of adjectives help nobody. Every entry should name the evidence it rests on and the action it demands.
20 August 2026 · 5 min
Evidence & research
Why we research before we write a single sentence
Generating first and checking later produces confident fiction. The scan runs first so the draft is written against something real.
17 August 2026 · 5 min
Evidence & research
How to read your quality score honestly
The meter is not a grade. It is a list of the questions your reader will ask that the document cannot yet answer.
12 August 2026 · 4 min
Document craft
The one-pager that earns the meeting
Length is a design decision. Choose one page and the document has to argue, not describe.
8 August 2026 · 5 min
Document craft
Describe the document. Get the document.
Templates assume your situation. Plain English describes it. The engine designs the outline either way.
4 August 2026 · 4 min
For founders
Strategy, operations, tactics: one chain, not three documents
Derive the operational plan from the strategy and the 90-day plan from operations, and the evidence travels with them.
30 July 2026 · 6 min
For founders
Your numbers need a narrative — and vice versa
Projections that nobody can explain are not conservative. They are unreviewable.
25 July 2026 · 5 min
For students & teams
Planning without the jargon
You should not need an MBA vocabulary to write a fundable document. You need clear answers to plain questions.
20 July 2026 · 4 min
Document craft
Sharing a plan people actually read
A link that opens instantly beats an attachment nobody downloads — and comments beat a thread of tracked changes.
15 July 2026 · 4 min
Stop reading. Start planning.
Describe your venture once, choose the document you need, and watch it get written against live evidence — then keep it honest as the market moves.
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