Built by one person. Run by AI.
You're running a whole business by yourself. Or a whole department with no team behind you. Same math either way: there's no one to delegate to, so you build the team out of AI. Every Tuesday I send one workflow I actually run, the prompts, the steps, the part that broke and how I fixed it. Built and pressure-tested in a real company, written to run in a business of one. Copy it, adapt it, ship it by Friday.
Written by Wayne ForemanHead of Sales Enablementworkflows that cleared real IT & legal review
Two desks, one problem
Solo operator usually means you are the whole business: you and the work, no team to hand it to. Sometimes it means running a function alone inside a company. The context changes. The math doesn't.
On your own
You're the consultant, the fractional exec, the freelancer, the one-person service business. Also the marketer, the support team, and the bookkeeper. There's no one to delegate to, so you delegate to AI and learn to manage it like staff.
Inside a company
Or you run a function solo inside a company. Enablement, ops, marketing, whatever the org calls it. The headcount never came; the targets did. Same playbook, different boss.
Same workflows. Same kits. The framing shifts, the work doesn't.
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Six recurring sections. No filler, no recycled prompts, just the working parts of one real workflow you can run yourself.
- 01
The Workflow
One workflow I shipped this week, the trigger, the prompt, the tool stack, and how long it took. Put it to work before Friday.
- 02
What Broke
The thing that didn't work. Why it didn't. What I tried before giving up. Failure logs are the fastest education available.
- 03
Time Ledger
Hours saved this week, audited honestly. If something was a wash, it gets logged as a wash. No inflated ROI math.
- 04
The Prompt File
A working prompt, not a template, pulled from this week's actual system. Pasted in, used in production, lightly redacted.
- 05
The Call
The judgment behind the workflow: what I weighed, where it could break, what I'd check before trusting it with client work. The part a prompt pack leaves out.
- 06
Field Notes
Two or three short observations from the week. The unglamorous realities of running on AI when you're the whole team: what's worth automating, what isn't, what nobody selling AI will tell you.
Recent dispatches
My membership had an August launch date. I deleted it and wrote a number in its place: 50 subscribers before launch. Then I checked the current count. Four, and one of them is me.
My first product sat finished in a folder for two months while I waited to feel ready for the launch infrastructure. I treated the launch as a checklist instead of a department and shipped it in three evenings, for the price of a one-dollar test purchase.
I read one line about how AI memory works, then audited the three files my assistant loads before every session. They were three to four times heavier than they should be, and trimming them surfaced three processes I thought were running but weren't.
Workflow kits
Self-contained systems, built from real problems in real work, inside a company or a business of one. Prompts, templates, and walkthroughs. No login, no course platform.
The Solo Department Head Starter Kit
Your first 5 AI workflows for running a function solo: meeting prep, weekly stakeholder updates, first-pass documents, synthesizing team input, and quarterly planning. Copy-paste prompts that work in Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. No setup, no integrations.
Also in development: The Meeting Intelligence Kit ($49)
Solo Operator OS
The whole kit catalog, one payment. Every kit, every future kit, and a templates library, all maintained as the tools change. $199 founding price, $249 once the catalog deepens. No subscription, nothing to cancel, yours forever.
One person, one desk
I'm Wayne Foreman. By day I run Sales Enablement at a B2B security company, a whole function, solo. SoloBuilt documents the AI workflows I actually use to do it, the ones that cleared internal security review, survived legal, and got a boss's sign-off.
If you're running your own business or a department of one, that's the point: these workflows were pressure-tested somewhere with real stakes, then written so you can run them yourself. No startup theater, no "act as a CEO" prompts, just what works when you have too much to do and no team to hand it to.
There's also a catalog of $49 kits and an all-access bundle on the way: every kit, one payment, no subscription. But the free weekly is where to start, and where the work shows up first.
One workflow, every Tuesday morning.
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