"Weekly CEO Update | The Team That Showed Us How to Operate" · 2026-06-24
If you operate in long cycles (e.g., week+), take your most important project, pull in the few people from other functions you actually need, put them in one room or one channel, do daily standups and ship something every day instead of every two weeks.
Replace 2-week sprint planning with daily standups — pull cross-functional people (business, product, engineering) into one room or channel and ship something every day
Every individual should pick one repetitive weekly task and use Claude to automate or kill it, shipping a first agent version the same day (record a video if Claude needs to see the system)
Embed an AI Builder inside each team/department — they visibly move the whole team faster (Madrid proof point: CommOps hit 76.2% chatbot deflection and shipped a live bot→GrouponIQ connection in hackathon mode)
Argue plans in the open — Madrid had four AI Builders challenge STeam's plans hard so bad assumptions died; a company that improves the plan in the room beats one that performs agreement
5/15 Summary Week ending July 3, 2026 30 of 31 below-floor deals are now resolved (97%) — 20 corrected and live, 10 paused. This week: 2 newly paused. 1 regression (previously corrected, now below floor again — Bella Cielo Med Spa). Status 30 / 31 — 97% of below-floor deals resolved This Week's Wins — no movement this week Still Open 1 deal — $0 annualized exposure Program-to-Date Snapshot Since 2026-05-11 · 31 deals tracked · refreshed Jul 3, 2026 Corrected 20 Live + above floor Reactivated 6 $39,738 annualized recovered Paused 10
5/15-ready Week 10 post-training Portfolio close rate: Trained Regional BD reps closing 36% of merchants as portfolio closes (2+ contracts within the rep's 90-day BD-ownership window) — up 12 pts vs 24% pre-training. 42 portfolio merchants so far. Top win this week: Hannah Chacho signed 4 contracts at Luminous Hair and Beauty Salon. Portfolio premium: Mature portfolio accounts (30d+ since launch) median $196 in M1+VFM in their first 30 days (n=23) vs $80 for single-deal accounts (n=29) — 2.4× median lift (2.8× on mean: $628 vs $227). Top portfo
Sprint day 64 · 109 live · 82 compliant (75%) · 8 severe · Live MVR 6mo $550,209 · 📅 Refreshed 2026-07-06 This tracker refreshes weekly on Mondays — not daily. As you complete renegotiations or revisions during the week, you won't see them reflected here until the following Monday refresh. The tracker reads from a snapshot, so check the Pacific South Case Report and deal pages for in-flight status between updates. Deals Progress Sprint Log By Division Performance Live deals 109 currently live in Pacific South Live MVR (6mo) $550,209 Compl
CM Impact Tracker CM Impact Tracker Apr 23 – Jun 25, 2026 · Snapshot 2026-06-26 · Source change log Improvement portfolio — 92 mature (≥7d post) $-25,294 M1+VFM Δ · Units -295 Protection portfolio — 22 mature (≥7d post) · expected loss $-3,952 M1+VFM Δ · Units -203 175 changes logged · 174 implemented · 1 pending · 119 with any post-change data (5 under 7d, excluded from hero). Hero aggregates count only deals with ≥7 days post-change data. Per-deal windows are matched: post = days elapsed since c
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