The Stacked Legacy blog

Field notes on
untangling a
business.

Operations, systems, and AI agents — written by the people who spend all day cleaning up the mess. No vendor fog, no filler.

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Playbooks

5 Steps to Find Your Operational Bottleneck (And Fix It Before You Automate)

Stop automating the mess. A practical five-step approach to finding the constraint slowing everything down - and deciding whether automation belongs in the solution.

Playbooks

The Proven Bottleneck-First Framework: Fix Your Operations Before You Add Another Tool

Tools do not fix broken processes. A repeatable operating loop for finding the constraint that matters, stabilizing it, and adding technology only when it creates measurable leverage.