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2024 · Operations lead · systems design

Ops Command Center

A single console for a founder running 40+ client accounts.

NotionAirtableMake.comGPT-4Slack

Founder time saved

12 hrs / week

Net retention lift

+15%

At-risk lead time

21 days earlier

Context

The founder was running 40+ concurrent client accounts out of email threads and three disconnected tools. Status was a guess, renewals were last-minute, and at-risk accounts were only visible after they churned.

Problem

No single source of truth for account health. No early-warning signals. The founder was spending 12+ hours a week assembling status manually, and still missing things.

Build

  • Mapped every signal — calls, tickets, usage, invoices — into one Airtable schema with health scoring.
  • Built a Notion command center that surfaces only what the founder needs to act on today: at-risk accounts, renewals in 30 days, blocked implementations.
  • Automated the data pull and the daily brief via Make.com + a GPT-4 summarizer.
  • Trained the founder and one VA on the cadence: 10 minutes a day instead of 12 hours a week.

Takeaway

The system wasn't the interesting part. The discipline of deciding what the founder should and shouldn't see was.

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