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Start using SOPs and checklists in just one department.
After two weeks, you will feel the difference.
The workflow will become clearer, tasks will move more smoothly, and your team will need fewer repeated instructions.
As a manager or business owner, you will have fewer interruptions because everyone will know:
✔ What to do
✔ Who is responsible
✔ What steps to follow
✔ When to report or escalate
Start small.
Choose one department.
Create one clear workflow.
Use one checklist.
Small systems create big improvements.
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One thing I’m learning with node workflows like Flora and Weavy is that each step needs to be specialized. Then you layer in the specifics.
A lot of what I’m building right now is for branded imagery. With image models, you get plenty of unwanted artifacts, strange details, and gooey limbs, so it can take a few passes to get the final image where you want it.
I’ve always admired art directors for their eye for detail. These tools force you to put that hat on.
The thing I wish these tools had is a better way to draw, mark up, and revise as you move through the workflow.
In any case, I’m really proud of the images that are coming to life.
Weavy or Flora?
Having fun with these workflows. Takes a while to get them tuned, but when they work, they are wonderful.
Finding Weavy to be a bit buggy, unfortunately.
Most SaaS founders who've hired an agency before brace for the same thing. Slow replies, no clue what's happening, a big reveal at the end that misses half of what they asked for.
So here's exactly how I run a project, stage by stage.
1. It starts with strategy before a single pixel: one 90-minute call where I dig into the business.
Most agencies skip straight to design. That's why their sites look good and convert nothing. Get this part wrong and everything after it is wrong too.
2. Then positioning: This is the real work, and almost nobody does it. We nail the one thing your site has to land, the problem your buyer wakes up with and why you're the obvious answer.
3. Then design, in stages: You don't wait three weeks for a reveal. You watch the homepage take shape, then the inner pages, and react as they build. Feedback runs in three capped rounds, so nothing drags into months.
4. Once design's signed off, I build it: Real code, fast and responsive, works the way it looked. Most projects go live in [four to six weeks]. An in-house hire takes about three months just to start shipping.
5. Launch day, I'm in it with you: Not emailing a zip file and wishing you luck. I push it live, check it all holds, and walk your team through how it works.
6. Then I stay on for 30 days after: A site's never quite done at launch, and I'd rather make sure it's pulling its weight than hand it over and disappear.
That's the whole thing. The work matters, but running it so you always know where things stand is the part founders remember.
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