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Three questions a non-technical founder can ask in any daily standup to tell shipping from stalling. Pass/fail signals, follow-ups, the Friday demo pairing.

A one-page weekly dev report you demand from your team every Monday. Five sections, copy-paste, with pass/fail examples for each. No jargon.

The 5-person team your agency pitched is rarely the team writing your code. Six questions to surface who actually ships, who reviews, and who is on-call.

The 15-minute Friday ritual that surfaces fake progress in 4 weeks flat. Loom or live, working software only, no Jira screenshots, no slides, hard stop.

The pass-through OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor costs that creep into month-2 invoices. Predictable per-developer ranges plus 3 SOW clauses to redline now.

Five questions that catch AI theatre in 30 minutes. Hand them to your next agency call before you sign anything. Score 0-5; below 3 means walk.

An annotated sample SOW that catches the 8 clauses agencies hope you skim. Read the night before you sign, alone, with a yellow highlighter.

AI assistants suggested 200+ package names that did not exist. Attackers registered them. Your $34K MVP pulled malware. The CI gate that stops it cold.

Step-by-step walkthrough of shipping a B2B SaaS MVP on Lovable + Supabase + Stripe across four build phases - at an evenings-only pace or full-time. Free.

A 30-minute structured decision that ends two weeks of analysis paralysis. KEEP / FREEZE / REBUILD with a 30/60/90 day plan.