One owner, seven routines, sixteen tools

Premium Puzzles is a real business. It sells jigsaw puzzles online, and one person runs it. We use it to build Leo in the open, so everything here is true as of October 2026.

The business, as Leo sees it

• 12 pieces of work, from loading new products to packing orders to the weekly newsletter.
• 16 tools connected, including the store, the email tool, the ad accounts, analytics and shipping.
• 7 routines running, each doing one job on a schedule.
• 38 pages written by Leo on how the business runs, with 131 links between them.
• 46 open questions. Things Leo knows it doesn't understand yet.

That last number matters. A brain with no open questions has stopped learning.

What the routines do

Three of the routines report every morning:

• Orders: what needs packing, what is running late, which customers need an answer.
• Numbers: yesterday's sales, traffic and list growth, read straight from the tools.
• Content: drafts for the week, rotated across topics so nothing repeats.

Each one says plainly when a source is down, so a missing number is never mistaken for a zero.

What joining it up showed

Before Leo, each tool told its own story. The store knew what sold. The email tool knew what was sent. The ad accounts knew what was spent.

Joined up, the picture changed. Leo could see which channel was really carrying the business, where two tools gave different answers for the same number, and which jobs were quietly waiting on the owner's laptop being switched on.

None of that needed a new tool. It needed the ones already there to be read together.

What one person still does

The owner makes the calls. Leo drafts plans and briefs, and puts them on the board. Nothing is built until he says go.

That is the arrangement: Leo carries the picture and the routine work, and the person does the deciding.

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We'll keep adding to this shelf: what worked, what didn't, and the numbers behind both.