Weekly Review Workflow

Every Friday, one retrospective across every function — product, marketing, finance, ops — synthesized, scored, and ready for next-week decisions.

Updated 2026-04-17
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Tycoon runs a weekly review as a synthesized, pre-assembled retrospective. By Friday 4pm, the Manager delivers a one-page review: what shipped, what slipped, metric movements, feedback themes, blockers, and 2-3 decisions you need to make for next week. You read 5 minutes, decide 10 minutes, and start the weekend actually disconnected — with next week's plan already in place.

How it runs

  1. Pull every function's week

    Each AI specialist submits their weekly update by Friday 2pm: AI CTO (shipped features, blocked work), AI CMO (campaigns launched, content published, CAC/LTV changes), AI CFO (revenue, burn, variance vs. forecast), AI COO (ops incidents, customer escalations), AI PM (roadmap movement, feature adoption).

  2. Metric roll-up

    AI Data Analyst compiles the week's metrics: MRR, signups, retention cohorts, traffic, feature adoption, NPS. Compares to last week and 4-week average. Highlights anything >15% off trend and tags whether it's noise or signal with a one-sentence hypothesis.

  3. Feedback + signal synthesis

    AI Researcher summarizes the week's customer interviews, support themes, and competitor moves. Surfaces any weak signals — emerging complaints, new use cases, shifts in language customers use — that might be leading indicators.

  4. CEO synthesis

    Manager reads all of the above and produces the weekly review: a one-page narrative covering wins, losses, shifts, and open decisions. Names the 2-3 things that would change next week's plan if decided today. Flags anything requiring founder taste.

  5. Founder review session

    Friday 4pm (or whenever works), founder reads the review. Makes the 2-3 taste calls in chat. Usually takes 15-20 minutes. Manager confirms next week's plan and broadcasts it to the team for Monday morning execution.

  6. Next week's plan lock

    Manager writes Monday's priority list based on founder decisions. Each priority has owner, success metric, and effort estimate. Plan is visible in Notion or Linear so the founder starts the weekend knowing the week's trajectory without carrying it mentally.

Who runs it

  • hire/ai-coo
  • hire/ai-cfo
  • hire/ai-product-manager

What you get

  • Weekly reviews actually happen — no skipped weeks, no 'next week I'll do it'
  • 20 minutes of founder time replaces 2-3 hours of synthesis
  • Every week has a clear narrative: what happened, what it means, what's next
  • Strategic drift is caught early — week 2 of a bad pattern, not week 12
  • Next week starts with a plan, not with Monday-morning context reconstruction
  • Founder gets the weekend actually off — the open loops are closed in writing
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Clear answers about wallet credit, usage, subscriptions, and how Tycoon charges for work.

How is this different from the daily briefing?

The daily briefing is about operations — what happened overnight, what's on fire today, what to unblock this morning. The weekly review is about direction — how did the week ladder to the quarter, what patterns are emerging, what bet should we adjust. Daily is tactical; weekly is strategic. Tycoon runs both because skipping either creates problems: without daily briefings you're always reacting, without weekly reviews you never lift your head. The two workflows feed each other — weekly reviews surface patterns that adjust what the daily briefing emphasizes next week.

Can I customize what's in the weekly review?

Yes — tell the Manager once and it sticks. Drop sections you don't care about, add ones you do. Founders commonly request: 'add a mood check on how stretched you feel' (a useful founder-wellness signal), 'include the three decisions I procrastinated last week', 'add competitor ship velocity'. The Manager adjusts the template and the next review reflects it. Unlike tools like Lattice or 15Five that force a standard template, this one is conversational — it's your review, shaped by what you need to see.

What if I skip a week of the review?

The review still runs — and accumulates. If you miss Friday's 4pm window, the review waits in chat for you. Skip two weeks and the Manager compresses both into a 'last 14 days' synthesis instead of two separate reviews, emphasizing patterns that span both weeks. The workflow is designed to survive founder life, not punish you for missing a session. That said, skipping consistently is the signal that defeats the ritual — the Manager will gently flag when you've skipped 3+ in a row and propose adjustments (shorter format, different day, different time).

Does this replace my monthly or quarterly review?

No — it feeds them. Four weekly reviews compressed give you a month-view that's richer than a monthly review built from scratch at 11pm on the last day. The Manager runs a separate monthly review that rolls up the week-views, zooms out to quarter trajectory, and proposes strategic adjustments. Quarterly gets its own deeper review with AI Researcher doing market-sizing and competitive landscape work on top. Each cadence has its own scope; the weekly is the engine that keeps the others meaningful.

How does this work if I'm running a team, not just AI specialists?

The workflow scales naturally. Each human teammate submits a weekly update the Manager reads alongside the AI specialists'. The synthesis format stays identical — the review isn't 'human vs. AI', it's 'what did the whole team produce this week.' For teams of 2-10, this replaces the traditional weekly all-hands meeting: instead of 8 people sitting for 60 minutes hearing each other talk, everyone writes a 5-minute update, the AI synthesizes, the team reads the synthesis, and the meeting (if one happens) is just the 2-3 decisions that need human discussion. This is how well-run async teams operate at scale — Tycoon brings it to a one-person company from day one.

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