Systems & Side-eyes
by Katie Barnesin 💼 Business
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Systems & Side-eyes
About the Substack
A field guide for cleaning up chaos, building smarter systems, and surviving early-stage silliness with your integrity intact.
Free Subscription Benefits
- Honest startup operations insight, founder psychology, and stories from behind the curtain of growing companies.
Paid Subcription Benefits
- Practical operations templates, prompts, scripts, and systems pulled from real client work.
- Clear walkthroughs showing when to use each tool, how to adapt it, and where it tends to break.
- Access to The Operator’s Back Room archive, including meeting structures, ownership tools, AI workflows, and anonymized client lessons.
Paid Subscription Plans
- $8 a month
- $80 a year
About Katie Barnes
Fractional COO for growing B2B SaaS companies. I write about founder bottlenecks, startup chaos, and building companies that don’t need you in every Slack thread. Operator Office Hours: 60 min, $250.
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