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
For founders living the chaos and operators cleaning it up. Startup systems, founder psychology, practical tools, and the occasional side-eye.
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