Operator Notes

What shipped this week.

A public weekly changelog. Every Friday I publish what shipped, what slipped, and what's next. The accountability is the point — you can hold me to a calendar.

Week of 27 April 2026 · Week 1

Foundations week. Five new blog posts, the Quiz, the Prompt Pack.

This week was the deliberate end of soft-launch and the start of public posting. The site picked up its first acquisition assets — a diagnostic quiz, a £9 entry product, and this changelog. Decision-making energy went into pricing structure (we held the line on the £47 launch price for Bible 02) and into building the rails for cold acquisition rather than chasing single tactics.

  • SHIPPED Five long-form blog posts (~1,500 words each): customer interview prompts, weekly review, AI newsletter niche tests, prompt rewriting, AI tool spend cuts.
  • SHIPPED The Atlas Bible Picker — an 8-question diagnostic quiz at /quiz.html that tells visitors which bible to start with.
  • SHIPPED Atlas Prompt Pack v1 — a £9 12-page operator pack of 30 working prompts. Tier 1.5 product, pre-bible.
  • SHIPPED The Master Zero-Budget GTM Plan (internal). Cold-acquisition strategy across Reddit, IH, HN, LinkedIn, newsletter swaps. Zero ad spend, 90-day window.
  • SHIPPED A 5-email welcome sequence (re-built with corrected pricing references — ask me about it).
  • SLIPPED The Tier 1.5 product page A/B test. Page is up; traffic isn't yet, so no signal.
  • NEXT Operator Notes goes weekly from this Friday. The Acquisition Pack ships next week. Reddit and IndieHackers prep starts Monday.

Caveat: Atlas Prompts is bootstrapped. Zero subscribers, zero customers, zero ad budget. The writing in these notes is the actual operator log, not a polished press release. If a week's entry is short, it's because the work was small — not because nothing happened.

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