How it works
Three steps, every time
The same three whether it is your first week or your ninth, at $8,000 a week. The reasoning underneath is deep. The process on top is not.
- 1SurveyBefore anything is booked
It starts with one short form, and it is the same form whether this is your first week or your ninth. We work out what the week actually is, and write it down. Nothing gets scheduled until it is.
- Where you are. Your Domain — everything you are building and the vision holding it together — the Hill you are on, and where you sit on it.
- What the work is waiting on. Either a decision nobody has made, or a decision made that nothing has been built from. One question decides that, and it is the one the whole form turns on.
- Then the agreement. I say what kind of week it is and put it in writing — the question or the decision, the date, the artifact. Then you sign, pay, and book your days.
If you have climbed with me before, the form skips most of itself — your Domain already holds the answers, so you fill in what is new. If it is bigger than one week I will say which part I would take first. If there is no week worth buying here, I will say that too. Hearing either costs nothing.
- 2ClimbMonday to Thursday
The week you bought. Everything between the meetings is written down as it happens.
- Monday — kickoff. We confirm and sharpen what was already agreed. It does not go looking for a subject; it arrives with one. A first Monday runs longer, because where-you-are gets mapped properly before the week is scoped.
- Tuesday to Thursday. The work, with a written update in your portal every day — what was made, what changed, what is still open.
- Wednesday — the Summit. If there is a decision to make, this is where we make it and it goes on the record permanently. If the direction was already settled there is no Wednesday, and I am available daily instead.
Wednesday cannot slip. If a question cannot be decided by then it was too big — which is mine to catch before you pay, not yours to discover on Thursday.
- 3DeliverFriday
What you have at the end of it, and what is worth doing next.
- The artifacts, and a walkthrough of what was made and why.
- A written reflection — what the week learned, and what the next one inherits. It stays in your record.
- The question worth taking on next, named out loud. You buy that week, or you do not.
Where a piece of work spans several weeks, the artifact named in the agreement still lands on the Friday it was promised — what carries over is the larger thing it belongs to.
And then it starts again
Every week opens by asking where you are now, because the terrain moves. The decision you made on Wednesday shifted you on the hill. You built something in the weeks after. The market answered, or it did not. Sometimes a Hill is finished and the next one starts somewhere else entirely.
Getting last month’s answer to that question is the most expensive mistake available here, because everything after it inherits the error. Re-orienting is not a setup cost you pay once — it is the thing you are actually buying.
What the record changes is how fast it goes and how good the answer is. Your Domain, the aim, every decision and why it was made are all still there — so what took ninety minutes the first time takes a few the fifth, and it is a sharper answer, because now there is a route behind you to read it against.
And it has to be able to stop. Nothing renews and nothing carries forward automatically — which is the only reason not yet is still a real answer once I have an interest in you continuing. Pick it up in three months and the record is where you left it.
Either one starts at step one. The form asks where you are and what the work is waiting on; the call is for when that is easier to talk through than to write. Working out what the week is comes after, and costs nothing.
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