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Benji's AI EmpireIssue 01  ·  May 2026  ·  Advanced Marketing
04. Course Series · Final Volume Operator-grade · Asia-friendly
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Empire OS

How I run the agency. Systems, hires, finance, fulfillment. The boring stuff that compounds. The operating manual behind the YouTube.

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Modules
10
Run Time
≈9 hrs
Format
Self-paced
Templates
23 SOPs
§ 02 · What You'll Learn

The boring stuff. Done well.

01

A hiring framework that filters for builders, not résumés.

Hires
02

A finance dashboard you actually look at — five numbers, one glance, weekly.

Finance
03

SOPs that survive turnover — written once, owned by the role, not the person.

Ops
04

Fulfillment that scales without you becoming the bottleneck (or the burnout).

Delivery
05

The 4 weekly meetings that actually run the company — every other meeting is theater.

Cadence
§ 03 · Curriculum

Ten chapters of the operating manual.

No. Module Description Domain
01

The 4 Weekly Meetings

Monday rev, Wednesday build, Thursday financial, Friday retro. Agendas, time-boxes, owners.

Cadence
02

Hiring — Filter, Offer, Trial

The 3-stage filter, the offer letter template, and the 30-day paid trial that has caught every bad hire.

People
03

Onboarding Sprint

The first 14 days — what they ship, who they meet, when they get the keys.

People
04

SOPs That Don't Rot

Writing them so they survive a year — owned by role, version-controlled, reviewed quarterly.

Ops
05

Finance Dashboard — The 5 Numbers

Cash, MRR, CAC, gross margin, runway. The single sheet I open every Thursday morning.

Finance
06

Fulfillment Ops

The kanban board, the delivery sprints, and the QA gate that ships work I'd put my name on.

Delivery
07

Client Retention

The QBR, the surprise-and-delight calendar, and the early-warning churn signals I act on within 24 hours.

Revenue
08

Firing Well

The conversation, the severance, the comms to the team. Done with respect, done fast, done once.

People
09

Travel + Remote (Asia-Friendly)

How I run the company from Bangkok, KL, or a flight. Time zones, async, and the rules that keep it from cracking.

Lifestyle
10

The Exit You Don't Take

Why I haven't sold, when I would, and the structure that makes the agency worth more every year I keep it.

Strategy

The agency is the boring part. Empire OS is what you run when you don't want to read another founder LinkedIn post about "vision." It's the operating manual, not the manifesto.

— Benji Boyce
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