Operations

Month in Review: July 2026

The biggest month yet: an always-on funnel, an automation pipeline, a coaching home, and Keith's second world.

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A running log of what got built, who it was for, and what it taught me.

July was the busiest stretch of the year: four builds, four different answers to "what's actually in the way?"

CrewLAB

Not a website. An always-on funnel. An AEO content engine that becomes the answer AI assistants surface when a club treasurer asks a question, paired with an audit that routes them into a booked call. An asset that compounds instead of a blast that spikes and dies.

Building the always-on funnel: CrewLAB

Print & Data

Wilson's bottleneck wasn't how the company looked. It was how orders moved through it. So we didn't build a brochure. We built an AI-powered order-processing pipeline. Phase 1 is live, Phase 2 is underway.

When the thing in the way isn't a website: Print & Data

Brendan's Coaching Practice

Coaching lives or dies on trust, and Brendan had the method but not the home that earns it before you're in the room. We built a site that explains the work without the woo, separates the offerings, and makes booking dead simple.

A home for the work: Brendan's coaching practice

Essence of Health

Keith's second world. After BrainHealthSpa, he saw what else could exist, so we built a separate site for his events brand, with its own palette and its own hummingbird. Two worlds, one unmistakable hand.

The second world: Essence of Health

The theme

Four builds, one question underneath all of them: what's actually in the way? Sometimes it's a website. Sometimes it's a workflow, a funnel, or a second identity. The build is just the answer to that question.

David Kerns

David Kerns

Operator, builder, creative. Sharing thoughts on the intersection of operations, product, and making things that matter.

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