Pilot

Planning

From vision to a plan you can execute Monday morning

Pilot's planning flow enforces the discipline the method depends on: a small number of 12-week goals, each with a measurable finish line and weekly tactics that pass the 'did I do it?' test.

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Vision · 3 years

A calm, profitable consultancy that runs without me in the room

12-week goal: 3 retainer clients signed

Lag measure: $12k MRR under contract

20 outbound conversations4/day
Publish one case studyWeekly
2 proposals out the doorWeekly

Goals with a hard finish line

Every goal needs a lag measure — the number that will be true or false on day 84. Pilot asks for it up front, so 'do better marketing' never makes it into a plan. And it caps you at three goals, because the constraint is weekly attention, not ambition.

Tactics that pass the Friday test

Tactics are weekly recurring actions, checkable with a yes or no. Pilot supports frequency targets (5 calls a day, 3 sessions a week) so intentions become countable lead measures — the only kind of measure you fully control.

Twelve weeks, then a deliberate 13th

The plan ends with a built-in 13th week for review and re-planning, so consecutive quarters chain instead of colliding. Your next plan starts from what the scorecard actually said, not from optimism.

The quarter at a glance

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Week 13: review, celebrate, plan the next sprint.

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Start from a proven structure

Every template opens directly in Pilot with goals, tactics, and the weekly scorecard pre-filled.

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Classic 12-Week Plan

The classic quarter-as-a-year plan: two or three goals that actually matter, weekly tactics for each, and a scorecard that tells you every Friday whether you executed. For anyone who read the book — or just wants a quarter that counts.

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Goal Setting

You don't need another worksheet that asks what you want. You need the machinery between writing a goal in January and it being true in April. This template supplies that machinery: vision, 12-week goals, weekly tactics, and a Friday score that keeps the whole thing alive.

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90-Day Planner

Ninety days is the largest unit of time a human can plan honestly. This planner treats the next quarter as if it were the entire year — a hard deadline, two or three goals with real numbers attached, and thirteen weeks each of which has a job to do.

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Action Plan

An action plan is a promise broken into steps. This template adds the part most action plans miss — a weekly score that tells you whether the steps are actually happening — so the plan survives contact with week three.

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Frequently asked questions

One to three. Pilot enforces the cap deliberately — the method's most common failure mode is carrying annual-plan ambition into a quarter. Everything else goes to the backlog, which is one click away and never lost.

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Plan your quarter, score your weeks, and hit your goals. Free for your first plan — no credit card.

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