A 7-step worksheet to get the work out of your inbox and off your plate, without lowering the bar or losing control of the outcome.
If your company can't move without you, that isn't commitment. It's a single point of failure you built on purpose.
This is the exact playbook I run with founders who have quietly made themselves the bottleneck. Every reply, every price change, every line of copy routes through one inbox. Theirs. They call it staying close to the business. It's the ceiling on the business.
No fluff. No theory. Just the steps, in order.
I'm Farzad. 3x founder, ICF-trained executive coach, and recently served as Fractional COO for Humoniq (YC S25) where we raised $8.5M seed.. I've coached 500+ founders, from idea-stage solo builders to YC alums to scaling CEOs running $25M businesses.
I learned this one the slow way. At Nylas I built the Customer Success function from zero. For a long stretch, I was the function. Every escalation, every renewal, every unhappy account came to me, and I called that commitment. Then we raised a $140M Series C and the math broke. I could not be the function anymore. Learning to build the people instead of being the people was the hardest shift of my career. This worksheet is the system I wish someone had handed me then.
This works best if you:
If you're a true solo founder with no one to delegate to yet, this is a hiring problem first. Two steps still pay off: the Keep / Coach / Let Go sort (Step 3) tells you exactly what your first hire should own, and real Let Go work can go to software or a contractor today. Run it anyway.
✅ Duplicate this Notion page into your workspace.
✅ Work the 7 steps in order. Most are 5 to 15 minutes. Steps 5 and 6 you run on a real task this week.
✅ Fill in the fields as you go. A blank worksheet changes nothing.
✅ When you're done, book a free 30-min call. Bring your Keep / Coach / Let Go list and the task you ran the Sprint on. Link at the bottom.