Journal

The three-touch nudge: late-payment recovery wi...

The three-touch cadence solo consultants use to recover late invoices — day 1, day 7, day 14 — without the apologetic emails that ruin the next engagement.

Claude Projects vs. skills vs. raw prompts — wh...

The three Claude surfaces solo consultants confuse, and the workflow-by-workflow rule for picking between them. Plus the one combination most people miss.

Fable 5, Opus, or Sonnet: which Claude for clie...

A working rule for picking between Claude Fable 5, Opus, and Sonnet on client work — task by task, from weekly updates to whole-deliverable handoffs.

Claude Fable 5 for solo consultants: what actua...

What Claude Fable 5 changes for solo consultants — longer autonomous runs, briefing instead of prompting, and why setup pays more than it used to.

The five-section Friday update that keeps clien...

The weekly update structure that takes 12 minutes, stops anxious client check-ins, and reads as confidence — not the CYA wall-of-text most consultants write.

Claude skills for solo consultants: what they a...

What a Claude skill is, why it beats a saved prompt, and the three to build first if you run discovery calls, debrief meetings, or send weekly updates.