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Tip 29 of 72Habits, team and depth

Business OS Rocks

Set a client's quarterly rocks once, then check progress any time in plain words.

Rocks are the three to seven most important goals for a quarter. The name comes from an old idea: put the big rocks in the jar first, before the small stuff fills it. Armbrain's Business OS tracks them for each client, or for your own business.

Set them up

Tell your AI assistant the quarter and the rocks, with an owner for each:

Armbrain, start next quarter for Harbor Dental Group with these rocks: open online booking at all offices (owner: Maya), launch the patient referral program (owner: Jordan), and refresh the website service pages (owner: me).

Armbrain shows you the list and asks you to confirm before it saves anything.

Check progress

Rocks also feed your weekly leadership meeting prep and your quarterly planning, so a few minutes setting them up pays off all quarter. Read the rocks and sprints guide.

Try it

  • Armbrain, update the Harbor Dental Group online booking rock: two of three offices are live. Show me the change before you save it.

  • Armbrain, across every client I run Business OS for, which rocks are off track?

Prompt of the day

Check where the rocks stand

Change these first:

CLIENTCOMPANY = Harbor Dental Group Armbrain, switch to CLIENTCOMPANY and show this quarter's rocks with owner and status: on track, off track or done. For any rock that is off track, tell me why from what is stored and what would get it back on track. Ask me before you change any rock.

Why it works: It gives you the status and the reason in one view, so a slipping rock turns into a next step instead of a surprise at the end of the quarter.