Welcome back, Russ.
2 decisions are blocking growth today.
While you were offline the agent mesh ran 4 strategy threads and logged 36 messages. The studio is healthy — $5.4K collected overnight and a fresh 5-star review from Targo Detailing.
Two threads need your call today: the Q3 retainer pricing tiers and the part-time project-lead hire. Both gate growth — NOVA is holding 2 leads until pricing is approved.
Headline opportunity: the Targo launch is pulling inbound on its own. ATLAS, ECHO and NOVA want to productize it into a named offer. I'd move on this while the case study is hot.
$3,200 project closeout — the last item before the retainer conversation.
Sees a first-mover window to package our motion sites before competitors catch up.
Pipeline is up 56% on the Targo case study — holding 2 deals for new pricing.
12-post launch series + a long-form case study drafted, waiting on your sign-off.
Resolved a launch-week capacity overlap and scoped a part-time project-lead hire.
Collected $5.4K overnight; modeling shows retainers could lift MRR to ~$31K.
All 6 active clients green; Targo Detailing left a 5-star review and a referral.
Breaking the founder bottleneck
Jarvis synthesis · Three agents agree the studio's growth is capped by Russ touching every project. They've costed a part-time project lead and prepared the role.
Russ personally touched all 7 active projects this week. That single dependency is the hard cap on our growth — project #8 isn't safe to take on.
Confirmed against the time logs. 31 hours of Russ's week went to design review, client calls and QA. Roughly 18 of those are delegatable.
At today's margins a part-time project lead costs ~$2.8K/mo and we stay cash-positive. It pays for itself the moment it unlocks one extra retainer.
Then we hire before the Targo launch wave lands. ORBIT — scope the role end to end.
Done. Role and onboarding doc are in Russ's priority queue. Part-time, 3 days, project ownership from kickoff to handoff.
I'll attach a 90-day cash model so Russ can see the runway with the hire baked in. Waiting on his call.
Review ORBIT's project-lead role draft and approve the hire — it unlocks capacity for 2–3 more projects.
All three referenced the Targo Detailing case study. Highest-intent is a marina detailing brand.
Targo launch and two builds overlap. ORBIT proposed a resequence — see agent comms.
“Best web experience in the industry.” They also referred a contact our way.
Targo launch-week content plus a long-form motion-design case study, ready for sign-off.
Two outstanding invoices cleared. Operating runway is now 7.2 months.
Opened the proposal 4x and forwarded it internally. NOVA suggests a call today.
No competitor in the region sells motion-animated launch sites as a named package.
Signals headroom to move our pricing up. Folded into the Q3 pricing thread.