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7 emails. 14 templates. 28 Claude prompts. The full operating system Eightx installs at $5M–$200M brands — yours to download.
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Audit to diagnosis
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How this works
Email 1 lands instantly. The 3-Leak Diagnostic — the first download — is in it.
Each email is 4–6 minutes. Each ships with a Claude-prompt-ready template.
If the course finds your leak, DIY with the templates — or book a 30-min Profit Audit Call to install it with us. If it doesn’t, unsubscribe with one click. No upsells.
D1 — D7 · The 7-Email Course
Each email is paired with downloadable templates — 14 in total across the course. Every template ships with two Claude prompts: one that fills it in the way I would given your inputs, and a Socratic thought-experiment prompt that walks you through designing a custom version for your brand.
Three universal leaks — inventory over/under-buying, margin compression, fixed cost creep — and why your P&L is the last place they show up. The line that opens it: well-meaning, extremely talented people destroy value without extreme alignment.
↓ Download · The 3-Leak Diagnostic (1-page self-audit)
The Growth Economics Audit. The 6 leak categories we run forensically — ad spend efficiency, SKU profitability, cash conversion, inventory health, comp/labor, departmental misalignment — and the order we run them in.
↓ Download · Growth Economics Audit (23-question scorecard)
Static budgets are inert. Driver-based models are diagnostic. If you build it properly, the model tells you where something is wrong — the diagnosis and the plan are the same artifact.
↓ Download · 3-Year Driver-Based P&L + 13-Week Cash Flow
Variance reporting tells you you missed by $400K. Variance attribution tells you whether traffic dropped, CPM spiked, conversion broke, or AOV fell off a cliff. Lens 1 — Demand — and the WMAPE discipline that makes marketing commit to the forecast.
↓ Download · Demand Forecast Variance Worksheet
A purchase order is a cheque you haven’t written yet. The Cash-Validated Procurement Gate — WOH ceiling, margin floor, runway weeks, proof of demand. No PO leaves the building without all four green.
↓ Download · Cash-Validated Procurement Gate Checklist
The 28-day operating loop. Week 1 demand, Week 2 supply, Week 3 finance, Week 4 exec sign-off. One decision per week, one owner per week, no reopening Months 1–3 unless guardrails break.
↓ Download · X&OP Monthly Meeting Agendas (4 templates)
The 90-Day X&OP Activation Sprint. Weeks 1–4 build the model. Weeks 5–8 stand up the rhythm. Weeks 9–12 transfer and scale. The 23-tool stack. The 10% opex savings guarantee. The full $8M swing case study.
↓ Download · Self-Implementation Roadmap + Daily Net Profit Tracker + Scorecards + Agency RGY
T01 — T14 · The Templates
Every template ships with two Claude prompts — one that fills it in the way I would given your inputs, and a Socratic thought-experiment prompt that walks you through designing your own. Drop in your numbers; the diagnosis writes itself.
T01 / DIAGNOSE
23-question scorecard across 6 leak categories. Score it; the dominant leak names itself.
T02 / MODEL
36-month driver-based P&L. Static budgets are inert; this one tells you why.
T03 / CASH
Rolling weekly cash forecast. The non-negotiable overlay on every annual plan.
T04 / DEMAND
Funnel decomposition. Attribute every miss across traffic, CPM, CTR, ATC, CVR, AOV.
T05 / SUPPLY
4-check PO scoring — WOH ceiling, margin floor, runway weeks, proof of demand.
T06 / CADENCE
4 weekly agendas — demand, supply, finance, exec sign-off. One decision per meeting.
T07 / TRACK
Daily P&L snapshot. Revenue, contribution margin, ad spend, runway — in one screen.
T08 / OWN
6 functions, R/Y/G. Each function owns a single number. No more cross-blame.
T09 / VENDORS
Monthly agency review. Tells you which retainers earn their seat — and which don’t.
T10 / RETENTION
12 monthly cohorts × 13-month grid. M+12 LTV/CAC resolves the “scale acquisition vs. invest in retention” debate.
T11 / LTV
Which entry product produces your highest-LTV customers. The Trojan-horse SKUs that pay back 4–5x in twelve months.
T12 / CAC
Four CAC ceilings — Day 1, 90-day, 365-day, 24-month. Most brands operate at 60–80% of theirs without knowing it.
T13 / TEAM
Trigger-based, not calendar-based. Every role has a fire-when, a fire-if, a cost, and a 6-month performance gate.
T14 / BOARD
12 sections, 12 pages. Operating context first, accounting second. The Asks page forces decisions, not “thoughts welcome.”
Built for $5M–$200M DTC & CPG operators
A $100M DTC retailer was 4 months late on audit, qualified opinion, losing $5.67M annually. After installing the X&OP system: clean audit, $10M ABL renewed, +$2.5M net income.
A home decor DTC brand with 8% margins and one warehouse. Installed scorecards, demand forecasting, and the procurement gate. Revenue +33%, margins to 12%, expanded to 4 warehouses.
“It wasn’t until we elevated our fractional CFO that it felt like we got real control of the business and I was driving it — it wasn’t driving me.”
Nate Gunn
Co-Founder, WildBird
Matt Putra
Managing Partner, Eightx
About the author
150+ engagements. $650M in client revenue managed. Same framework, same templates, same prompts we run at private clients — sequenced as 7 emails. No upsells in the emails.
I write operator-direct. Specific numbers, short paragraphs, no “transform your business.” If you’ve been to one of my talks or read the blog, this course is the same voice — just sequenced.
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