This week

The next time we get together, and what the register says needs attention before then. Live — edit any item right here and it saves to Notion.

Next session · Monday

Monday Exco Standup

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Why it exists: it's where the week gets its three shared priorities and blockers get named out loud — so nobody drifts and nobody carries a problem alone for a week.

Bring

Your top priority for the week
Your one blocker
What you need from another exec

Leave with

The team's 3 priorities
Who is unblocking whom
Your commitments, logged

Needs attention before we meet

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The rhythm

How we work together — a fixed cadence, so getting together stops being a crisis response and becomes something we just do. Tap any ritual for the detail.

Why we do this — and what breaks if we skip it. Without a weekly reset, the team defaults to firefighting and everyone optimises their own list. Priorities silently diverge, blockers sit unspoken for days, and by month-end nobody can say what the team actually moved. Thirty minutes buys a shared week.

Who's in the room

Full Exco: Enver, Nzima, Lisa-Ann, Briony, Sulaiman.

Decision it produces

The three priorities the whole team is behind this week, and who is helping unblock whom.

Bring

Your top priority
Your one blocker
What you need from others

Leave with

The team's 3 priorities
Your logged commitments

Why we do this — and what breaks if we skip it. Initiatives that aren't working quietly survive when no one is forced to look at the numbers together. This is the hour where we stay candid instead of "professional", stop dwelling on what's failed, and free the capacity it was eating. Skip it and the core keeps consuming 100% of the team.

Who's in the room

Full Exco, facilitated.

Decision it produces

What continues, what changes, and what stops — with a reason on record for anything we keep.

Bring

Your KPIs vs last month
One thing in your area that isn't working

Leave with

Updated scorecard
Clear stop / keep / change calls

Why we do this — and what breaks if we skip it. New revenue (H2) never gets built if the only time that exists is time left over from defending the City contract — and there is never time left over. Ring-fencing this session is how H1 discipline actually converts into H2 progress.

Who's in the room

H2 stream owners + Sulaiman & Briony; Enver as sponsor.

Decision it produces

The next concrete milestone for each live H2 stream, and the support each owner needs.

Bring

Progress on your stream
Your next milestone + blocker

Leave with

An agreed next milestone
Support committed by the team

Why we do this — and what breaks if we skip it. The team has historically not planned twelve months out, so it's forever responding to whatever lands. Planning the next six months in advance — with the levers for each tender scenario agreed before we need them — turns tender uncertainty from a threat we scramble against into checkpoints we've already prepared for.

Who's in the room

Full Exco + AEON facilitator.

Decision it produces

The next six months' commitments by function, plus the pre-agreed lever to pull under each tender scenario.

Bring

Your function's 6-month plan
Progress on last quarter's commitments

Leave with

Agreed commitments to the next checkpoint
Scenario triggers everyone understands

Why we do this — and what breaks if we skip it. The board wants to be hands-on and has industry talent to offer — but only if we tell them exactly where. Turning up with a scorecard and specific asks keeps them a resource rather than a review panel.

Who's in the room

Full Exco + Board.

Decision it produces

What the board backs for the next six months, and precisely where each member helps.

Bring

Scorecard vs last checkpoint
Three specific asks of the board

Leave with

Board support committed
The next checkpoint's focus

Why we do this

A rhythm only holds if everyone knows why it's worth the hour. The short version.

A stretched team without a cadence doesn't move slower — it moves in five different directions. The rhythm is how five over-extended people act like one team.

Cadence beats capacity

We can't add people. The only lever left is working in sync — a predictable beat means less re-explaining, fewer dropped handoffs, no crisis-only meetings.

The "why" travels

People commit to reasons, not instructions. Every ritual carries its purpose, so the team exercises initiative instead of waiting to be told.

Candour is scheduled

Killing what isn't working needs a room where it's safe — and expected — to say so. The monthly review is that room, every month.

We build, not just defend

Protected build time is the only way new revenue happens while the core still demands everything. Rhythm is how H1 discipline funds H2 progress.

Progress becomes visible

Decisions and commitments get logged, so the rhythm produces something you can point at. Meetings that produce nothing get abandoned.

It's the RFP evidence

A team that plans, decides and delivers on a visible cadence is the discipline the tender asks us to prove.

Track record

Proof the rhythm produces something — read live from the register. Every decision we make and every action we're carrying.

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