Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
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90+ minutes down to 10-12 minutes A checklist remembers the work. It doesn’t do the work. Every new partner used to trigger 10–12 onboarding steps for us: Folder documents Tracker entry Reporting schedule Welcome email Questions We had everything documented. Still took us 90+ minutes every close. And once, we missed the tracker entry completely. The partner never got their first report. Now when a deal closes, we send Viktor one message: “Run the new-partner onboarding checklist.” He creates the folder, kickoff doc, tracker entry, reporting schedule, and drafts the welcome email + intake questions. Then he holds the email for my final approval. 10–12 minutes later, ready to go We review one email and send. 90+ minutes → one message. Writing down a process is easy. Running it correctly every single time is the hard part. Your checklist can’t do that. An AI employee can. Hire Viktor for your team. $100 in credits included, no card. Full link in first comment. Paid Partnership
Sufyan Maan, M.Eng83,300 просмотров • 12 дней назад
Most people think content creation is the hard part. It’s not. The hard part is everything around the content. I run a content business with a team helping AI companies, SaaS startups, and founders reach operators, marketers, creators, and business teams.
Sufyan Maan, M.Eng225,871 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
Taiichi Ohno built Toyota’s production system. His training method was a literally chalk circle on the factory floor. He’d put a new manager inside it and tell them to stand there and watch! 8 hours No phone No notebook Just watch After an hour they’d come back saying they’d figured out the problem. Ohno would send them back. “Keep watching.” By hour 3 they’d notice the worker reaching awkwardly for a part. By hour 7, the pause before every weld because the operator was waiting on the guy behind him. None of that shows up in a report. Reports compress 8 hours into just a number. The number says output is 94% of target. It doesn’t say why the guy is standing on his tiptoes. Most executives have never watched their own operation for 8+ hours. They’ve read a 1000+ dashboards. Those are not the same thing. By the time it reaches you, it’s just a bar chart. On a bar chart, everything looks pretty fine. The only way out is to go sit in the circle. Sit there until you notice something that isn’t in the summary or bullet points. Because the summary is always wrong in exactly the places that matter.
Sufyan Maan, M.Eng290,188 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
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Sufyan Maan, M.Eng254,104 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
Checklists are where processes go to be remembered, not done. Mine had 10-12 steps for onboarding a new partner and still cost me 90+ minutes every close, plus one partner who slipped through anyway. I run a creator-led media business. A signed deal triggers invisible work: folder, kickoff doc, tracker entry (really important), reporting schedule, welcome email, intake questions. We built a beautiful checklist in Google Drive. 10-12 steps based on our first meeting. The checklist remembered everything. It did nothing. And the one time we rushed it, a new partner never made it into my tracker, so they never got their first report. Now when a deal closes, we send Viktor one message: run the new-partner setup from our onboarding checklist in Notion. Folder from template, kickoff doc, tracker entry, reporting schedule, welcome email drafted with intake questions, held for my approval. 10-12 minutes later it's done. We review just one email, then send. 90+ minutes of admin became one message. Nothing skipped since, because nothing depends on memory. By the way, writing down your processes was never the hard part. Running them every time, especially on your best days, is. Your checklist can't do that. An AI employee can. Tell me I'm wrong. Hire Viktor for your team. $100 in credits included, no card. Full link in first comment.
Sufyan Maan, M.Eng41,983 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
Startups lose enterprise deals for a pretty boring reason: The product was ready. The compliance wasn't. By the time a buyer asks for SOC 2, you're months behind. The founders who prepare early close in weeks instead. Vanta automates this, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA + 35 more frameworks, monitored continuously. 16,000+ companies use it, including Ramp and Cursor. Build it before you need it. Get audit-ready at
Sufyan Maan, M.Eng21,388 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
Creating commercials with AI has become a lot more fun than I expected. Excited to join the #GAIC Season 2 challenge with Ima Studio and see what I can create. If you're into AI filmmaking or creative ads, this is definitely worth checking out. 🚀 Here's what the challenge is about: Create a 1+ minute AI commercial for any brand you love using Ima Studio. Compete for $10,000 in prizes. What you need to know: • Tool: Ima Studio • Length: 1+ minutes minimum • Deadline: August 10 • Prize pool: $10,000 split across 10 winners You can make: → A concept ad for a real brand (Nike, Apple, Tesla) → A commercial for a fictional future brand → An AI ad for a local business you support Just label it clearly as fan-made if you use a real brand. Timeline: → Submissions: July 10 – August 10 → Judging: August 11 – 17 → Winners announced: August 18 – 21 Create with Ima Studio: Join the challenge & submit your commercial: If you've been sitting on a creative idea, this is your push actually to build it.
Sufyan Maan, M.Eng15,135 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
Jeff Bezos had a rule at Amazon. When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. He proved it in the most uncomfortable way. During a meeting, his team showed him the numbers. Customer service wait times were under 60 seconds. The dashboard looked clean. The metrics looked fine. But Bezos kept hearing complaints. Real customers saying they were waiting forever to get through. His team pushed back. The data says everything is fine. So Bezos picked up the phone. Right there In the middle of the meeting. Dialed Amazon's 1 800 customer service number. Put it on speaker. And they all just sat there. In silence 60 seconds passed. Nothing 2 minutes Nothing 5 minutes Nothing More than 10 minutes before someone picked up. 10x longer than the dashboard said. Nobody in that room said a word. He didn't yell. He didn't fire anyone. He just let the silence do the talking. That one phone call set off a chain reaction. They rebuilt how they measured wait times entirely. The old metric wasn't wrong. It was measuring the wrong thing. And that's the part nobody talks about. Bad data doesn't look like bad data. It looks like a clean dashboard. It looks like a green number. It looks like everything is pretty fine. The most dangerous metric in your business isn't the one that's red. It's the one that's pretty good to go when it shouldn't be. Your customers are telling you something right now. It's probably not showing up in your reports. The only way to find it is to pick up the phone, doing the experiment, learning/finding yourself. You have to seek truth!! Video Credit: Lex Fridman Podcast
Sufyan Maan, M.Eng13,428 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
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