About — Executive Øx

Jackson, Wyoming

Artemus Huhn.

I run an insurance business, and I fixed my own operation before I ever sold this to anybody.

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Artemus Huhn, founder, holding a brass clockwork movement

Why this exists

I was the bottleneck in my own company.

Everything ran through me because I was the fastest way to get anything done. Then the business got big enough that being the fastest way became the slowest way. Nothing moved unless I moved it.

I didn’t want to hire five people to fix a structure problem. So I built the structure.

What I did

What I actually did.

01

Wrote down how the work runs

Not a policy binder. The actual steps, in the actual order.

02

Handed the repeatable parts to machines

The things that shouldn’t need a person stopped needing one.

03

Kept the parts that need judgment

Which turned out to be far fewer than I thought.

The machine

There’s a machine behind me, and it’s not a metaphor for a team.

The parts of this business that don’t need judgment don’t get a person. They get a process that runs on its own, with a name, so I know which one broke when something breaks.

Nine of them. Eight do a job. One keeps the other eight honest.

The nine

Meet the machine.

Maverick — an illustrated bull elk
MaverickKeeps the other eight pointed the same direction.
Radar — an illustrated great gray owl
RadarNotices the thing before anyone says it out loud.
Architect — an illustrated beaver
ArchitectCares more about the second year than the first week.
Pulse — an illustrated pronghorn
PulseKnows what day it is. Every day.
Firewall — an illustrated grizzly bear
FirewallSays no so nobody else has to.
Tally — an illustrated marmot
TallyCounts it before anybody argues about it.
Chalk — an illustrated moose
ChalkWrites it down so it exists tomorrow.
Courier — an illustrated raven
CourierGets it from here to there without dropping it.
Scout — an illustrated bald eagle
ScoutGoes and looks instead of guessing.

Limits

What I don’t do.

I don’t sell software

Nothing to log into, nothing to administer.

I don’t take everyone

$2M to $20M, owner-run, and a few at a time because I’m one person. Below that, there are free tools.

I don’t disappear after the build

The last step is keeping it running.

Start here

If that sounds like your business, tell me about it.


Six questions, about three minutes.

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One person · a few builds at a time

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Off the Desk OS™
Find it. Fix it. Forget it.

Jackson, Wyoming

307-231-4432

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