Executive Task Force & #GrandmaStand

It's time to jump back in. It's Thursday, February 19th. Go Full Send.

NO HALF SENDS

A NOTE FROM ROMAN

Night Hikes šŸ¤™

Hey. I’m glad you’re here.

Your relentless pursuit of your ā€˜why’ is going to be what pushes you through the peaks, valleys, and day-to-day of your journey.

Last week, a friend sent me a text asking how things are going with work/life. On the work front, I responded with sentiments around how grateful I am to work alongside of a team that cares so much. Working alongside the team and clients here at Full Send continually pushes me and keeps me fulfilled.

We constantly reinforce a mantra of ā€˜Elevating Outcomes’ to our team. How do the decisions you make at work angle towards elevating an outcome for your clients, team, or community? If you can draw a line to an improved outcome - you have nearly free reign to pursue that initiative.

It’s broad, but provides helpful framing to our team - from processing invoices on a daily basis to supporting a massive acquisition - and everything in between.

- Roman

TL;DR

šŸ¤” 3 Biggest Questions We’ve Been Asked in 2026

🚶 Japanese Walking + AI Agent Build

šŸŽ¤ Full Send in Studio

šŸ¦ Traditional Firm Challenges

šŸ‘µšŸ» The #GrandmaStand

Feature Story

šŸ¤™ The 3 Biggest Asks We’ve Had in 2026

Here are the 3 biggest requests we’ve gotten in the last 47 days:

We grew another 100% to $80M, but are operationally inefficient. Can you sit on our executive task force as the AI/Automation executive lead?

  • Our goal is to translate new technology into embedded workflows that drive action. As consultants, we spend many hours researching, testing, and architecting modern connected systems that work — so you don’t have to. Whether it’s thought leadership to drive strategy, implementation of select automation, or AI-driven processes…we’re here for it.

We’ve scaled from $5M to $10M in the last 12mo and need a true inventory management system. Can you help us evaluate & implement a solution?

  • Yep. Our expertise is helping businesses scale through processes and systems that can take them to the next level. If we start early enough, we help architect a system that is ready for appropriately-timed system improvements. The improper set-up can cost tens of thousands in clean-up and implementation when those system-driven inflection points come.

We’re raising a $10-$15M Seed Round and need clean financials for fundraising, can you help set us up for fundraising success?

  • Seed funding is often more predicated upon proving your product and your market and less upon the strength of your financials. That said, when you’re preparing to deploy $10M to hire a workforce and develop a go-to-market rhythm - you need to be financially prepared. Investors seek the confidence in operational rigor to deploy the capital effectively. We create a financial deliverable that delivers confidence for third-party stakeholders.

Transformation doesn’t come easy. I have a sign in my office that says, ā€œGrowth Hack? Do it right the first time.ā€ We help our clients do it right the first time.

The Recommendations

šŸŒŽ FULL SEND DISCOVERIES

Here are a few recommended pieces of content. A few gems to look at:

Google DeepMind

šŸŽ„ Documentary

A behind the scenes look at Google DeepMind and its quest for AGI. If it was that good in 2017…..

LA Times Pic

šŸ’Ŗ Fitness Trend

Easy cardio to boost fitness, lower blood pressure, and aid with weight loss.

AI Agent Building

šŸ’ø Data Tip

Build an AI Agent with us! From custom apps to AI-embedded workflows, we’re building them.

Show & Tell

šŸŽ¤ FULL SEND ON THE MICS

Full Send in the Studio

We’ve always been keen on creating content and this year we’re going to ramp up the production a bit. Keep an eye out for content across a few channels:

Building in the Wild - Stories about our journey and stories from our network about building businesses / products / technology in the wild.

Data Fuel - A deeper dive into leveraging data / automation / AI for SMB growth.

Full Send CFO - A foray into the modern CFO for growing companies.

We were quite light on episodes last year, but will be shipping new content more regularly in 2026.

If you are in Denver/Boulder and have a story to share on Building in the Wild - drop us a line at [email protected].

The Observation

šŸ¤” The Biggest Beef With Traditional Firms

Trad accounting.

A tale as old as time…

A bright-eyed and busy-tailed consultant builds years of experience working at a large practice and thinks to themselves - there must be a better way!

They get into business, begin working with clients, build a team, and quickly lose the capacity to….continue finding a better way. It’s sad.

We hear these three common issues from new prospects:

Communication: ā€œI don’t get timely responses from the firm I work withā€¦ā€

Experience: ā€œThe firm I work with just doesn’t have expertise in my industryā€¦ā€

Complacency: ā€œI’ve worked with X for 15 years and no longer get the service that I used toā€¦ā€

I would never claim that we have the perfect solutions to any of these problems, BUT we do have a few solutions.

We know our target market and make referrals outside of the firm when it’s not an 80+% fit.

A massive component of serving clients well is knowing who you are not well suited for. A big part of elevating outcomes for others is ensuring we are pointing them in the right direction, regardless of our personal upside.

We designed intelligent systems in order to ensure the right people are receiving the right messages…at the right time.

Quality processes and systems drive accuracy, speed, and sanity. We’re not perfect, but we are continually seeking the balance between optimizing for speed and accuracy in complex accounting and data environments.

Core to our culture is a commitment to progress, learning, and finding ā€˜the better way’.

Does this problem require a new way to think about a solution? Can we build a more scalable process that will allow our client to achieve more? With our data team, we are capable of far more than the typical firm. Instead of solving every problem from an angle of simply ā€˜more hours’, we think through the long-term objectives of our clients and design a solution with their goals in mind. Will a custom app build make more sense than a process re-write? Can we automate X, Y, or Z in order to reduce the sales’ team manual data entry across systems? There’s always a better way.

Many firms profess a commitment to quality in these areas, but unfortunately they are the areas that seem to most commonly drive pitfalls for traditional firms. They are issues that we’re actively trying to re-write a script for.

šŸ‘µšŸ» Good People Doing Good Things

The #GrandmaStand. A rotating pop-up staffed by 15 NYC grandmas. Grandma Eileen called in and spoke with thousands of complete strangers providing life wisdom that only 100 year old’s have. The tradition carried on šŸ¤™.

Until next time,

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