People

Start with the people decision that needs clarity. Record the relevant facts for a person to review under the applicable local rules.

Jobs to finish

What is getting stuck in People?

“This is costing me founder time and raises the risk of assessing candidates against unstated expectations.”

Turn recurring founder work into outcomes, tasks, boundaries, entry competencies, and evidence that interviewers can use consistently.

Expected result: Open a role with reviewable outcomes, tasks, context, boundaries, and entry competencies.
Available Practice: One complete method

“This is costing me attention and leaves candidates waiting without a clear process state.”

Give each active candidate a documented stage, owner, next action, evidence link, and timely status.

Expected result: Keep every active candidate in a named stage with an owner, evidence, next action, and status date.
Available Practice: One complete method

“This is costing me interview time and confidence because each candidate is judged against different evidence.”

Ask the same ordered job-related questions and capture evidence against human-approved anchors.

Expected result: Make a reviewable human selection decision from the same job-related questions and anchored evidence.
Available Practice: One complete method

“This is costing me trust and decision time because important terms remain implicit.”

Check approved role, terms, conditions, dates, and decision ownership before an authorised person sends one proposal.

Expected result: Let both sides accept, decline, or negotiate the same reviewed written proposal.
Available Practice: One complete method

“This is costing me correction time and can leave the new teammate blocked or overexposed.”

Prepare approved access, essential context, role outcomes, first-week work, named help, and check-in dates.

Expected result: Give the new teammate one reviewable path to start safely, understand the role, and ask for help.
Available Practice: One complete method

“This is costing me correction time and keeps the founder inside work they intended to transfer.”

Record the outcome, context, authority, constraints, evidence, timing, and escalation route, then invite correction.

Expected result: Let the teammate act within known boundaries and renegotiate unclear or impossible parts.
Available Practice: One complete method

“This is costing me decision time and weakens trust in agreed founder responsibilities.”

Assign the driver and one final approver, then list the contributors, informed people, and escalation route for one decision.

Expected result: Make one decision through agreed process roles and record the outcome.
Available Practice: One complete method

“This is costing me early signals and creates repeated follow-up without clear support.”

Review priorities, blockers, feedback, support, and agreed actions in a restricted agenda both people can shape.

Expected result: Surface concerns early and leave with named actions or an explicit no-action outcome.
Available Practice: One complete method

“This is costing me trust and leaves the expectation or impact unresolved.”

Prepare specific situation, behaviour, and impact evidence, ask for the other person’s view, and agree the next check.

Expected result: Establish what each person observed and understood, then agree the next action or escalation.
Available Practice: One complete method

“This is costing me decision time and can expose ownership before the relationship or contribution is understood.”

Define the needed contribution, run a bounded working trial, check references, and record scope before a long-term commitment.

Expected result: Decide whether to stop, continue testing, or ask qualified counsel to review proposed terms.
Available Practice: One complete method