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Notes on operations, systems, and strategy.

Practical writing for founder-led companies in Tanzania and East Africa, on the same problems we solve in engagements: memory that lives in one person, systems that do not scale, and how to fix that in order.

Operations · September 3, 2026

The memory problem: how to tell your business has outgrown spreadsheets

Spreadsheets are not the problem. A business that only runs because one person remembers how the spreadsheet fits together is the problem. Here is how to tell which one you have.

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