Efficiency Sprint glossary

The terms Luba Inz of Efficiency Sprint uses for owner-led companies, one sentence each. Each links to the page that explains it in full.

Efficiency Sprint makes companies operationally ready for AI.

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Learned helplessness in business

When a team stops making decisions because the owner always makes them.

Cost-of-a-mistake ladder

One dollar limit per level of a company, for how big a mistake that level may make on its own.

SCOPE™ by Efficiency Sprint

Five states of operational readiness for AI: Stabilize, Codify, Ownership, Pulse and Engine. AI starts at Pulse.

Decision authority matrix

One page that says who decides, up to what amount, and what brings the decision back to the owner.

Operating rhythm

A fixed weekly meeting where numbers, exceptions and decisions waiting on the owner get handled together.

Owner–team–reality gap

The distance between what the owner believes, what the team says and what the systems show.

Six-block org chart

Six blocks with one owner each: People and Admin, Marketing and Sales, Finance, Operations, Customer Success and Quality, and Executive.

The operational AI readiness check takes about two minutes and shows where your company stands.