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Step 3 of 7

Your sketchsix pillars on one page

Twenty minutes on paper. Six pillars, what hurts in each, what you want instead. On the call we turn this into your map.

Time
20 minutes
On paper or in a doc.
Credits
No credits
Step 3

Every business has six pillars

Marketing, sales, delivery, operations, finance, mindset. Everything you do in a week sits in one of them. It is the frame every agent in the bundle is built on, and it is how we will look at your business on the call.

Yourbusiness MarketingSalesDeliveryOperationsFinanceMindset
The six pillars. Your sketch is one line per pillar.

Here is why I want this from you, not from us

On the call, Perplexity will have read your files and seen your tools, and it will check your sketch against your real inbox, calendar and numbers. That check is only useful if the sketch is in your words first. Twenty minutes now saves twenty minutes of the call, and the map comes out sharper.

Your sketch, one pagesix rows, three columns, one mark PILLARWHAT HURTSRIGHT NOWWHAT YOU WANT INSTEADMARK MarketingI write every email myselfThree hours, Sunday nightIt drafts in my voice, I approveRSalesDeliveryOperationsFinanceMindset circle the one row that hurts most
The whole page. Six rows, three columns, one mark per row.
Your steps

What you do before the call

  1. Open a blank doc.

    Call the file business-sketch.

  2. Six rows, one per pillar.

    Marketing, sales, delivery, operations, finance, mindset.

  3. Three columns.

    What hurts. Right now. What you want instead. One line each.

  4. Fill it in, one pillar at a time.

    If a pillar has nothing worth naming, write none. A blank pillar is a real answer.

  5. Mark each row R, N or H.

    R, replace: work you want off your plate. N, new: work you never got to. H, human: work that stays with you. Not sure? Leave it blank.

  6. Circle the row that hurts most.

    Not the most exciting one.

  7. Save it where you can find it.

    It goes into your Material folder in step 5. The full version, with a worksheet, is in Module 3: Your sketch.

Questions

Before you ask

Can we do this together on the call instead?

We can, and it costs about fifteen minutes of the hour. Do it before if you can.

How detailed?

One line each. If you are writing paragraphs, stop. The call does the rest with real data.

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