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OperationsJune 2, 2026·11 min read

SOP drift: why your documentation is lying to you

Most SOPs are wrong within 90 days of publishing. Here's how to detect it before it costs you a customer.

Your refund SOP says one thing. Your team does another. Three months in, every customer interaction is a coin flip. This is SOP drift, and it's the silent killer of DTC operations.

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OperationsJune 2, 2026·14 min read

14 SOPs every Shopify Plus brand needs at $5M+ ARR

The procedures that separate Shopify Plus brands that scale cleanly from those that drown in operational chaos.

At $5M ARR you have 8-15 people. By $10M you have 25. The difference between scaling cleanly and scaling chaotically is documentation discipline. Here are the 14 SOPs every Shopify Plus brand needs.

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OperationsJune 2, 2026·12 min read

Operations playbook for DTC brands between $1M and $10M

The messy middle of DTC, where the founder-led playbook stops working and the enterprise playbook doesn't fit yet.

Most DTC operations advice is written for enterprise brands or for true beginners. The $1M to $10M band is the messy middle where most operators actually live, and where most brands stall.

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MarketingJune 2, 2026·9 min read

Why Klaviyo flows go stale: a quarterly audit framework

Most brands set up Klaviyo flows once and never revisit them. Here's the audit framework to keep them earning.

Most brands set up Klaviyo at launch and never audit. Within 12 months, 20-40 percent of flows have a problem. Here's how to find and fix them.

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Customer SupportJune 2, 2026·7 min read

How to detect when your Gorgias macros stopped working

Macros silently break. Customers notice before you do. Here's the audit that catches broken macros before CSAT slides.

Your refund macro worked yesterday. Today it's silently failing on the Shopify refund action. Five agents didn't notice. Twenty customers got incomplete responses. Here's the audit.

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