Solo founders drown in context. Customer calls, competitor scans, product decisions, investor conversations — all of it in one head. Here is the stack that survives year two.
Capture layer
One mobile app for everything. Voice-first so you can offload during walks. Notes, tasks, and journal in one surface so context doesn't fragment.
Decision log
Every non-trivial decision goes into a decision log as a single atomic note: the options, the choice, the reasoning, the date. Six months later you can reconstruct why you did what you did. Indispensable during investor diligence.
Weekly intent setting
A weekly review is non-optional. Solo founders drift more than anyone else because there's no manager to course-correct. The weekly review is the manager.
Customer-conversation capture
Every customer call gets a structured note: one-line problem statement, three quotes, one surprise. Over 50 calls you see the pattern. Over 200 you have a product.
What to skip
CRMs, complex project management, enterprise note apps. You are one person — you don't need workflow software for a team of twelve. Overhead buys nothing at this stage.
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