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As companies grow, operational context becomes fragmented. Revenue is in Stripe or QuickBooks, customers are in HubSpot, conversations happen in Slack or WhatsApp, documents live in Notion or Google Drive, and important decisions often live only in people’s heads. Founders spend too much time rebuilding the same mental picture of their business before they can make decisions. Nomos aims to solve that by becoming an operational intelligence layer. It connects the tools you already use, builds a unified understanding of how your business operates, and helps answer questions like: * What changed this week? * Which customers need attention? * Why did runway change? * What should I focus on today? We’re initially building for founder-led companies, especially those operating across both global tools (Stripe, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Slack) and local infrastructure. I’d really appreciate feedback on: Is this a problem you experience today? What’s the hardest part of understanding what’s happening across your business? If you could ask one question about your company and get an instant answer every morning, what would it be? If this resonates, I’d love to chat and learn how you currently run your business.

goldenweeks Retreats is a 2-week accountability retreat in Zanzibar for ambitious digital nomads, founders and remote professionals who want to make real progress on a specific project - with structure, accountability and a supportive community instead of working alone. We bring together a small curated group (limited spots) for deep work sessions during the day with clear milestones, check-ins and peer support, and slow evenings with beach walks, shared dinners and island exploration. You get reliable internet, comfortable workspaces and the calm tropical energy of the Swahili coast. Each weekday follows a gentle but intentional rhythm: silent deep work sessions, daily goal setting and check-ins, coworking blocks, and accountability circles. Weekends are for island life - dhow trips, local food, and exploring Zanzibar's culture at a slower pace. You arrive with something unfinished - a new offer, a website, a system, a creative project - and leave with tangible progress and a clearer direction. The retreat includes accommodation in a villa by the ocean, breakfast and some shared meals, plus a structured program with a small group of like-minded people. If you're tired of sitting on the same project and know a change of environment is what you need, this is for you. Check out goldenweeks.co for details and how to apply.

"The month I tested 20 A/Bs and learned nothing" Most people running Meta ads want to keep control of targeting. I get it. But at a small budget that's usually the wrong thing to be protecting... Here's what happened that changed how I think about it. I had a client, restricted budget, and we were testing hard. 20 A/Bs a month. And we were stuck. Results wouldn't move. At some point I made a call: maybe we're not testing the angle, we're just drowning it. Too many variables, not enough spend behind any of them to ever get clean data. So we did the opposite of what felt right. We tested less. Cut it to about 20% of what we were doing and let Advantage+ take over the rest — let it develop, gather data, do the targeting. Two weeks later we doubled the previous month's results at a lower CPA. Less work. Better results. No brainer. Here's how I actually decide now, by budget: Under $5-10/day per ad set: don't expect to test anything. There's no data down there. If you just need your message in front of the right people, use detailed targeting and take what comes. Bigger, but under ~$3k/month: go Advantage+. Meta is strong enough today to get you real performance, and you don't have the volume to test targeting manually anyway. Spending more, with real funnel levels: now use your own data and custom audiences. Before that, there's a high chance you don't have enough data and it ends up all over the place. And when someone tells me they don't want to give Meta control? Meta wants you to spend money. To do that they trained a machine on billions of dollars of ad spend to limit your testing and find your buyers. On average it gets better results. Yes, sometimes it shows your ad to someone completely off. But it also shows it to people you'd never have targeted — buyers no manual detailed-targeting setup would ever have found. So why not give it a shot? Advantage+ won't test your placements for you. But it'll test your angle. And the angle is the first thing you need to get right before anything else matters. Curious where people land on this — are you still targeting manually, or have you handed it over?