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The Solo Founder’s Quarterly Review
Most solo founders either skip reviews entirely or track everything. This template helps you answer three questions in 90 minutes – and leave with clearer priorities than any planning session will give you.
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The Solo Founder’s Quarterly Review
Three questions. 90 minutes. More clarity than a week of planning.
What’s inside
A 5-page template built for one person, not a team.
Page 01
Setup guide
How to run the 90 minutes, what to pull before you start, and why the order of the three questions matters.
Pages 02 – 04
One page per question
Lined writing space for each question, plus five depth prompts per page to push past surface-level answers.
Page 05
Priroties summary
Carry-forward boxes for what to continue, what to change, and what to focus on next quarter. One-sentence intention field.
The framework
Three questions that replace everything else.
Corporate review formats exist to create alignment across many people. You’re one person. You don’t need alignment – you need clarity. These three questions are the whole review.
What’s working and should continue?
Not what you’re doing – what’s actually producing results. Revenue, momentum, energy, clarity. Identify what deserves more of your attention, not just what’s keeping you busy.
What’s draining me and should change?
Not just what’s inefficient – what’s costing more than it’s returning. Client work that consumes your highest-energy hours. A format you dread. A pattern you’ve built around instead of reconsidered.
What am I doing next quarter?
Not a roadmap. The two or three things that matter most given what you learned from Q1 and Q2. If the first two questions are answered honestly, the third almost writes itself.
How to run it
90 minutes, once a quarter.
Pull your numbers first
Revenue by source. Rough time split by category. They don’t need to be precise – they need to be honest. Without them, you’re working from feelings instead of patterns.
Write without filtering
The review is not a performance. Set the timer, open the template, and write through the three questions. The real patterns show up around page two.
Let Q3 inherit from Q1 and Q2
Don’t arrive with a pre-decided plan and confirm it. The next quarter’s priorities should emerge from the assessment – not the other way around.
The quarterly view makes imbalances visible that the weekly view hides. Individual weeks feel fine. Zoom out to ninety days and different patterns emerge.
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The alternative isn’t no review. It’s a simpler one.
The template is free. It takes 90 minutes once a quarter. And it consistently surfaces things you’ve been too close to see.
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