Operations / Solo Founder Operating Model

Project Prioritization Worksheet

Score every active project and route each to a clear designation: Primary, Secondary (with 30-day gate), or Archived. Run once now, repeat quarterly.

Step 1: List Every Active Project

Include projects you "haven't gotten to in a while." If it occupies working memory, list it.

#	Project Name	Last Worked On	Revenue?
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Step 2: Score Each Project (ICE)

Impact (1-5): How much does success change your revenue? Confidence (1-5): How likely is measurable progress in 90 days? Effort (1-5, inverted): 1=very high effort, 5=low effort.

Project	Impact	Conf.	Effort	ICE

Step 3: Apply the Routing Rules

Rule 1: Generating real revenue now? Primary or Secondary candidate regardless of ICE.

Rule 2: Highest ICE score = Primary candidate.

Rule 3: Second-highest ICE (within 20% of top) = Secondary with a 30-day gate.

Rule 4: Everything else = Archive. Write a one-paragraph status freeze and remove from active planning.

Project	Designation	If Secondary: 30-day gate condition

Step 4: Sanity Check

Exactly one Primary project?

At most one Secondary project?

Every non-Primary/Secondary project has a written status freeze?

Can state "done in 90 days" for Primary project in one sentence?

Primary project 90-day definition of done

Step 5: Operating Model Commitments

I have communicated the archive decision for every archived project

I have removed archived projects from my task manager

I have set two fixed async-review windows per day

Window 1: Window 2:

Single most important action on Primary project this week

I have contacted an R&D tax credit specialist (or written a reason to defer)

Quarterly Reset Trigger

Rerun this worksheet when any of these occur:

A project changes revenue status

You find yourself working on something not designated Primary or Secondary

90 days have passed since last scoring

Your Secondary project has hit its 30-day gate