Practice
The month-end close that fits in an afternoon
A sample March product aggregate found four habits among studios that finished before lunch. Each moved the work to the days it happened.
Elin Marsh
Co-founder, Alder
Journal
Notes on keeping a studio’s money in order.
Twice a month · practice, product and money
Latest writing
Product
Why Alder will never have a dashboard
A dashboard is numbers arranged to make you feel informed. We shipped one sentence instead: you have 8.4 months. Here is why, plus the eleven charts we deleted.
Devan Okonjo
Engineering, Alder
Money
The quiet cost of chasing invoices
Sample product aggregate: nineteen days to payment versus forty-one is rarely a billing problem. Notes from six thousand fixture reminders and the sentences that changed the result.
Priya Nadkarni
Guest, Nadkarni & Co
We publish roughly twice a month, and never about ourselves twice in a row. Everything we have written stays up, and the letter below carries each new piece the morning it goes out.
One letter a month, on running a studio’s money well.
Written by the people building Alder. No product announcements dressed up as advice, and one click to leave for good.