Founder readiness and failure prevention
Before You Fail
Why 90% of Entrepreneurs and Startups Fail, and the Six Pillars Playbook for Global Success
Before You Fail supports founder readiness, business triage, governance, and failure prevention work. It addresses the human, financial, cultural, co-founder, cash-flow, and execution issues that often damage ventures long before the market has fully judged the idea.
It is a founder readiness and failure prevention guide built from the hard realities that most entrepreneurship books avoid. The book is organized around the Six Pillars framework, and it is the source of the 90% startup failure argument that runs through the practice: most of those failures trace back to preparation, and preparation can be tested before capital and reputation are committed.
What the book examines
- Co-founder conflict
- Cash-flow traps
- Weak validation
- Cultural blind spots
- Personal and family strain
- Governance gaps
Forthcoming
Publication date, format, and retailer links will be listed here at release.
AI governance and operating value
Artificial Intelligence for Contractors
Artificial Intelligence for Contractors supports the AI governance, transformation, and operating value work for contractors and project-based businesses. It translates AI into practical questions of workflow readiness, data discipline, scheduling, procurement, risk, safety, and measurable operating value.
It is a practical guide for contractors and project-based businesses navigating AI adoption, built on the governance-first, operating-value-first philosophy that is the only responsible way to bring this technology into a business.
What the book examines
- Workflow readiness
- Data discipline
- Scheduling and procurement
- Risk and safety
- Vendor risk
- Measurable operating value
In preparation
Publication details will be announced here.
From the books to the work
Each book leads to a defined engagement.
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Before You Fail
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Artificial Intelligence for Contractors
Before you act, understand what you are actually facing.
The books set out the method. A conversation applies it to your situation.