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Your Financial Model Is Missing This
Most founders don’t realize how much chaos is costing them because it doesn’t show up as a line item. This is a breakdown of the hidden operational…
 • Katie Barnes
The Case for Going Fractional w/Juan Salas-Romer and Katie Barnes
This conversation was honest in the way most “career advice” isn’t.
 • Katie Barnes and Juan Salas-Romer
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I Didn’t Choose Operations. I Just Kept Fixing Things.
I wasn’t trained for ops. I was trained to listen, notice dysfunction, and care about outcomes. Turns out that’s the job.
 • Katie Barnes
I Don’t Use AI to Replace People. I Use It to Hear Them More Clearly.
I don’t use AI to replace people. I use it to hear them more clearly. Most operational problems aren’t about missing SOPs—they’re about misheard…
 • Katie Barnes
Unowned Work Is the Real Startup Killer
Every growing startup has work that keeps resurfacing. Different people touch it. No one owns it. This piece breaks down why unowned work quietly drains…
 • Katie Barnes
The Ops Prompts I Actually Used in 2025
The questions that surfaced the real work again and again.
 • Katie Barnes
The Year I Went Out on My Own (and Stopped Niching Myself to Death)
This year, going out on my own taught me something unexpected: my niche wasn’t an industry or a role. It was me. Extreme empathy. No bullshit. Dry wit…
 • Katie Barnes
Systems & Side-eyes
Systems & Side-eyes
A field guide for cleaning up chaos, building smarter systems, and surviving early-stage silliness with your integrity intact.
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