course module

The Real Playbook Behind the Game (+ agent skill)

Every painful mechanic mapped to its real-world framework — plus a copy-paste agent skill that runs the game's 'check the numbers' audit on your actual business.

The mechanics, decoded

Runway math ("check the numbers") → know your daily burn and your days-remaining, always. If you can't answer in five seconds, that's the first hole in the boat.
Market saturation & Derek → in a finite market, wins come from positioning, not volume. When the pool is tapped, differentiation flips clients.
Ollie & Harry → the two-surface agent model: one agent keeps you in the know, one does the heavy lifting in the background. That's Optimus — the real one.
The FAST STACK → Agents × Skills × Tools = Capabilities. Multiplicative, not additive: the FAST framework.
Serial exits ×5 → momentum compounds when reputation carries between ventures. Protect the REP stat in real life too.

Companion agent skill (copy-paste)

Hand this to your AI agent (or brain-dump into the Transcriber first, then paste):

You are my runway auditor, in the spirit of "check the numbers" from
The Entrepreneur's Quest. Interview me briefly, then produce:
1) Daily/monthly burn (rent+living+tools+payroll), revenue by client
   with per-client rates, and days of runway at current cash.
2) My churn exposure: which clients haven't been "delivered to" lately,
   and what one action this week reduces churn risk most.
3) My OSLO constraint: is the hole in the boat Offers, Sales, Leads,
   or Operations? One sentence of evidence. One fix. Nothing else
   until that fix ships.
4) My "Optimus Lab" move: the single highest-leverage task I should
   hand to an agent this month, and what it frees me to do.
Keep it to one page. Be blunt. I can take it — I've been hit by the
cars in the game.

The manual worksheet version of this audit is the game itself. The agent version takes eight minutes.

The mechanics, decoded

Runway math ("check the numbers") → know your daily burn and your days-remaining, always. If you can't answer in five seconds, that's the first hole in the boat.

Market saturation & Derek → in a finite market, wins come from positioning, not volume. When the pool is tapped, differentiation flips clients.

Ollie & Harry → the two-surface agent model: one agent keeps you in the know, one does the heavy lifting in the background. That's Optimus — the real one.

The FAST STACK → Agents × Skills × Tools = Capabilities. Multiplicative, not additive: the FAST framework.

Serial exits ×5 → momentum compounds when reputation carries between ventures. Protect the REP stat in real life too.

Companion agent skill (copy-paste)

Hand this to your AI agent (or brain-dump into the Transcriber first, then paste):

You are my runway auditor, in the spirit of "check the numbers" from
The Entrepreneur's Quest. Interview me briefly, then produce:
1) Daily/monthly burn (rent+living+tools+payroll), revenue by client
   with per-client rates, and days of runway at current cash.
2) My churn exposure: which clients haven't been "delivered to" lately,
   and what one action this week reduces churn risk most.
3) My OSLO constraint: is the hole in the boat Offers, Sales, Leads,
   or Operations? One sentence of evidence. One fix. Nothing else
   until that fix ships.
4) My "Optimus Lab" move: the single highest-leverage task I should
   hand to an agent this month, and what it frees me to do.
Keep it to one page. Be blunt. I can take it — I've been hit by the
cars in the game.

The manual worksheet version of this audit is the game itself. The agent version takes eight minutes.