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June 22, 2026
Automated: Annotation spreadsheet with qualitative and quantitive input.
An automation I wish we had from the beginning. This one scans Slack, QuickBooks, Shopify, Klaviyo etc monthly and records every any decision or event that might notably nudge the business and adds them to a google sheet.
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May 26, 2026
How would you allocate $10M? Here's what I'd do.
A friend posed a question I hadn't framed for myself: "How would I allocate $10M into a consumer AI holdco today?" Here's what I'd do.
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May 26, 2026
Permit data, contractors, and a 35% lift
Five months consulting for a Los Angeles home services company between Holstee runs — the permit-driven outreach system and what it produced.
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May 18, 2026
Holstee Sprint Week Three
Holstee's 14-year old KPI sheet started filling itself in, QuickBooks came off manual export, and Google's AI Overview showed up in the search numbers.
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May 11, 2026
Holstee Sprint Week Two
Two refreshes shipped, the April health report ran, and the Pinterest API saga ended in a clean decision.
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May 5, 2026
Holstee Sprint Week One
First sprint kicked off: one post refreshed by hand, and the Shopify automation set up to take over from here.
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May 4, 2026
Back to Holstee, for a sprint
Stepping back in part-time for an 8-week run to modernize what's worth modernizing.
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May 3, 2026
Rebuilding michaelrad.me
Why I rebuilt this site and powered by a note taking app. Here's the stack, how I did it, and what I'd do again.