Needs youA fourth keynote that week breaks your three a week cap.
EO Bogotá wants to add a fourth stop to the November run.
RecTake it. It chains onto the Quito flight home, costs one extra night, and the run was built for exactly this.
Monday, August 25
3 decisions need
3 decisions need
you today.
Each one arrives with a recommendation already made. Everything else ran on your rules, or is waiting on someone who is not you. And you never have to open this screen: the decisions reach you as a text, you answer in the thread, and this page is the receipt.
Needs youA time change on a signed booking.
The October 14 host asked to move your keynote from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.
RecSay yes. Nothing else is on the 14th, and the later slot kills the 5:40 am flight.
Needs you$340 over Madi’s spend line.
The blackout shade install came back at $1,840.
RecApprove it. The other bid was $2,410, and this one includes the boys’ rooms.
Waiting on someone else. None of it is waiting on you.
BeckyEO Guayaquil and EO Quito agreements, out five daysnudge goes Tuesday
Flothe DSU keynote tapepromised this week
EO Panamacountersignature on the agreementdue back Wednesday
Speaking Operations Desk
Two agreements need signatures.
Two agreements need signatures.
One invoice is overdue.
The desk qualifies who is serious, quotes from your fee rules, checks both calendars, and runs every booking to paid. You say yes or no.
The November run
$102,500
four cities, four nights, home Friday
Delivered, unpaid
$27,500
EO Kelowna, third reminder out
Agreements out
2
Guayaquil and Quito, five days
Inbound this week
YPO Vancouver
SeriousCame in with a date, a budget, and a board contact. March 12, leadership summit, 400 owners.
Fee to quote: $30,000 · your EO and YPO rule. Your calendar is clear, the family calendar is clear, one travel day.
Terms sent. The date is held.
Manufacturers assn., Dallas
Needs a callJune, date open. The agenda is vague, they asked for “AI and scaling.” Twenty minutes is on your calendar for Tuesday at 10:00.
Growth summit, Phoenix
Fee shoppingAsked the fee. No date, no budget, no decision maker. The fee schedule went out with the standard note.
Closed unless they come back with dates. You never saw it.
The November run
Mon Nov 16 through Thu Nov 19, Bogotá pending your call| City | Fee | Contract | Invoice | Paid | Travel | AV | Capture |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EO Puerto RicoMon, Nov 16 · San Juan | $27,500 | Signed | Sent | Paid | Booked | Confirmed | Plan set |
| EO PanamaTue, Nov 17 · Panama City | $25,000 | Signed | Sent | Due Nov 1 | Booked | Pending | Plan set |
| EO GuayaquilWed, Nov 18 | $25,000 | Out 5 days | On signing | Held | Plan set | ||
| EO QuitoThu, Nov 19 | $25,000 | Out 5 days | On signing | Held |
Open loops the desk is chasing
$27,500
EO Kelowna, delivered May 22, still unpaid. Third reminder went Friday.Next: Peyton calls Monday morning. If it goes quiet again, it comes to you.
2
Agreements out past five days: EO Guayaquil and EO Quito.Next: Becky nudges both Tuesday. Travel stays on hold until they sign.
The Rule Set
Every decision shows its rule.
Every decision shows its rule.
Every rule is yours to change.
Plain language, real thresholds, editable any time. When you override one, the rule sharpens. Nothing here is a black box.
Teach itSay it the way you would say it to Madi
Drafted.
Filed with your rules above. It applies from now on, and you can edit or kill it here any time.
Speaking fees
EO and YPO chapters: quote $30,000, floor $25,000.
Below the floor, send the pass note without asking. Sharpened Aug 23: unless it is within a two hour drive. Those come to you.
Never more than three keynotes in one week. A fourth needs you.
Travel
No red eyes, ever.
Home by Friday night unless you and Bre planned it.
Six travel days a month is the ceiling.
Spend
Madi decides up to $1,500.
$1,500 to $5,000 lands in the daily brief.
Over $5,000 interrupts you the same day.
Calendar
Meetings that need you land on Tuesday.
Nothing before 9:00 am.
The family calendar always wins.
Bre’s input first
Any trip past three nights.
Anything on a Sunday.
Anything touching the family calendar.
Events
If it is about the agenda, it comes to you.
Everything else, the team figures out. Your rule, your words.
Decided today, and the rule that fired
Passed on the franchise expo inquiry, $9,000
Fee floor: $25,000Booked the plumber for Thursday, 8:00 am
Home: under $500Held San Juan flights, daytime, aisle
Travel: no red eyesSent EO San Diego the standard agreement
Contracts: Becky’s templateYou overrode the fee floor. Utah trade association, $10,000, ninety minutes from home. You took it. The rule sharpened itself: below floor inquiries within a two hour drive now come to you instead of auto passing.
Rule updated
It is learning you, sixty seconds at a time
Replay from March. Madi asked: “The AV vendor for the Denver keynote came in at $2,800, okay to book?” You said yes, four minutes later.
Should that have needed you at all?
1 of 12 queued from your own history
Connections
Plugged into your tools.
Plugged into your tools.
Not a copy of them.
One sign-in each, read-only wherever the tool allows it. BlakeOS reads what you already use, applies your rules, and writes nothing without one. Unplug anything and it goes dark to that tool instantly.
Tx
Text messagesyour phone, via the relay
ConnectedWhere Madi’s check-ins and the family logistics actually happen. Triage reads it, answers what your rules already cover, and brings you the rest.
Last read 2 min ago
Sl
SlackScaling.com workspace
ConnectedThe Slack desk answers logistics and scheduling questions in your channels, in your words, and shows the rule it used on every reply.
Answered 4 today
Em
Emailspeaking@ and your inbox
ConnectedEvery inbound inquiry is qualified on arrival. Fee shoppers get the standard note, serious asks get a date check before you ever see them.
Last read 6 min ago
Ca
Calendaryours, plus the family calendar
ConnectedEvery date decision checks both before it answers. The family calendar always wins. That is a rule, and it is enforced here.
Synced 1 min ago
BE
Speaking formblakeerickson.com
ConnectedInquiries land here the second the form is submitted. Location, date, audience and budget go straight through your qualification rules.
3 inquiries this week
Dr
Drive, the corpusbooks, keynotes, recordings
IndexingEverything you have written, taught or recorded, being made retrievable by meaning. The Studio pulls from here. 62% indexed.
2,140 of 3,400 items
Mo
Monday.comwhere the team’s work lives
ConnectedThe BD pipeline, contracts and boards. Status questions get answered from the board instead of from your memory, and nothing you assign gets lost.
Synced 4 min ago
Zm
Zoomcall recordings
Not connectedEvery recorded call flows into the capture loop and the corpus on its own. Nothing to remember, nothing to chase.
One sign-in to connect
Dv
Divvy and bill.comcards, spend, receipts
Not connectedConnect them and every “this costs this much, okay?” arrives pre-checked against your spend line, with the receipt already filed.
One sign-in to connect
Connecting is one tap. You sign in to the tool itself, it hands BlakeOS a key you can revoke any time, and nothing about your accounts changes. Madi can manage this page for you.