Rhythm
Commitment Loop
Open every meeting with how the last commitments went; close it with new hard commitments — accountability built into the room, not chased between rooms.
Use it in any recurring meeting that produces updates but no movement — and anywhere follow-up still routes through the founder. The loop turns the meeting itself into the accountability system.
The loop
Open with the last commitments
Each person, briefly, no slides: what I committed last time, and how it went. Done or not done — and if not, what happens next.
Run the meeting
The actual agenda. The loop wraps it; it doesn't replace it.
Close with hard commitments
Each person states what they will do by when — measurable and time-bound. Sharpen vague ones in the room.
“"I'll talk to some customers" becomes "five customer calls booked by Friday."”
Write them where everyone can see them
They open the next meeting. That's the whole trick.
The loop does the chasing. If commitments open the next meeting, nobody needs reminding — the system remembers, so the founder doesn't have to. This is the antidote to status theatre: a meeting where things are promised, not just reported.
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