Long-form pieces on AI consulting economics, short-term rental operations, the Design Partner engagement model, and building custom systems for operators who've outgrown SaaS. Published when worth reading — not on a schedule.
Most consulting blogs are written to a content cadence — one piece every two weeks, ten in a quarter, all forgettable. That's not the goal here. The goal is pieces a real operator would forward to a peer.
The queue below is what's in research right now. Each one ships when it earns its own page, not when the calendar says so.
No promised dates. If a piece survives the research, it ships. If it doesn't, no one needed it written anyway.
Honest accounting of the VA-plus-tools stack at 4, 8, and 12 properties: hourly cost, tool-subscription drift, your own context-switching tax, and the failure modes that don't show up on the invoice. With a worked example for an owner deciding between a second VA and a custom system.
The early-warning pattern in guest comms: what guests say before they downgrade, why the AC question at 11pm is rarely about the AC, and the specific message templates that recover the rating before it lands.
What to actually watch in PriceLabs / Wheelhouse / AirDNA instead of just trusting the algorithm — including the three local-event signals their models miss, the comp-set substitution trap, and the "minimum-stay roulette" most operators run by accident.
The repeatable choke points operators hit as the portfolio grows: what breaks first (turn-day coordination), what breaks next (financial reconciliation), and what makes operators sell to property managers at 15 when they didn't have to.
Operators who read a piece and book a call already know whether the fit is right. The call is faster, the engagement starts on the same page, and the bad-fit conversations don't happen at all. That's the whole reason this page exists.
If a topic above is the one eating your week and you want to talk it through instead of read it later, the call is open. I'll think out loud with you — whether or not the engagement makes sense.
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