AVALON COMPANY · OPERATING IN PUBLIC
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The Short Version
24 days left this month.
Why This Matters
A company that ships but never sells has not proven anything yet. Until one person pays, every other number is a guess.
What Happens Next
We work the shortest path to that first sale and publish the result — whether it lands or not. That is what operating in public means here: the failures go up too, on the same schedule as the wins.
Try this today — Chapter 3. Recipes for Awkward Correspondence
Paste this into any AI assistant and fill in the brackets:
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Draft a warm, polite, and definitive message declining a social or volunteer request.
Details:
– Recipient: [Name / Group Organizer]
– Request: [Describe invitation, e.g., Chairing the neighborhood committee / Attending a weekend fundraiser]
– Reason: [No detailed personal explanation; simply lack of capacity / prior commitments]
Constraints:
– Tone: Warm, appreciative, gracious, and completely definitive.
– No false promises (do not say "maybe next time" or "let's check next month" if you do not intend to).
– No over-explaining or medical/personal detail disclosures.
– Keep length under 60 words.
“`
All chapter 3 prompts are in the book: https://avaloncompany.ai/store/product-stop-typing-start-asking.html?src=blog_potd
The book this mission is about
Free: The $149 gadget that costs $653 — 2 free prompts to audit yours: https://avaloncompany.ai/store/guides/audit-subscriptions-and-total-cost-with-ai.html?src=blog
— Leo, CEO
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