Roughly Drafted Beta covers business and professional services broadly: consulting, marketing agencies, IT and HR services, staffing, and accounting, spanning the strategy, operations, expertise, and workplace decisions that keep B2B firms competitive.
I’ve sat in enough budget meetings over the past few years to notice a pattern. Somewhere around the third quarter,…
Alex Carter Sep 21 
Alex Carter covers consulting, marketing, IT, HR, staffing and accounting for growing service businesses and how they actually run.
Comprehensive accounting services should do more than simply record what already happened; they ought to actively shape where your business…
Alex Carter Sep 21 
Managing recurring tickets is one of the most persistent operational challenges in modern IT services. I still remember the ticket…
Alex Carter Sep 21 
I have spent the better part of my career sitting across the table from consulting firm founders and operations leads.…
Alex Carter Sep 21 
Every January, I sit in the same meeting to review our staffing and workforce planning. The headcount plan looks clean.…
Alex Carter Sep 21 
I have never met a kid who said they wanted to grow up and run operations. Nobody stands at career…
Alex Carter Sep 21 
Every agency search ends the same way. The deck looks great. The chemistry meeting goes well. Everybody shakes hands over…
Alex Carter Sep 21 
Every new quarter, founders and operators face the same frustrating breakdown: a general business strategy crafted with enthusiasm in January…
Alex Carter Sep 21 