The 2025 Banking Freeze Survival Manual (For Global Founders)
If your money can be frozen, your business is not global — it's exposed. A practical OS-level guide for founders who earn and move money acr...
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These articles describe patterns and frameworks observed across hundreds of global solo founders. They are not personalized advice. Use them to diagnose your own infrastructure gaps, then run the assessment to get corridor-specific routing recommendations. If your situation doesn't match the patterns described, the assessment will route you differently.
💸 Money Flow
Money Flow for Global Solo Founders
You're three months into a client project. The invoice is due. You've set up a Stripe account, connected it to a Wise account, and routed it...
Operating Multiple Currencies Without Losing Your Mind
Run USD/EUR/SGD/CNY stacks without chaos, double FX, or spreadsheet hell.
Building Multi-Bank Money Pathways
Design redundant banking rails across countries and currencies so one failure never kills your OS.
Designing Your Client Payment Experience
Make it radically easy and low-friction for global clients to pay you, in their currency.
Designing Clean Personal vs Business Money Flows
Stop commingling and design flows future-you (and your accountant) will actually understand.
Banking for Constrained Founders
Strategies when you can't freely change residency or travel for KYC but still need robust rails.
How to Audit Your Existing Money Pathway
You've been operating for two years. You have bank accounts, payment processors, and a rough idea of how money flows. But you're not sure if...
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Entity Design for a Borderless Business
You've been operating as a sole proprietor for two years. Revenue is growing. You're working with clients in the US, EU, and Asia. Then a US...
When to Open a Second Entity
Signals that it's time to add another company—and how not to over-optimize.
Residency vs Incorporation: How to Think About Both
Separate your human life from your company structure without getting lost in passport-porn.
Choosing Your Primary Entity Jurisdiction
Practical trade-offs when picking the mothership entity for your global solo business.
🛡️ Tax & Compliance
Tax Systems, Not One-Off Hacks
It's March 15th. Your US tax return is due in a month. You're also tax-resident in Portugal and need to file there. You've been operating th...
KYC & Compliance for Solo Founders
Treat KYC and compliance as a product surface, not a random set of bank demands.
Building Your Documentation Backbone
The minimum documentation stack that makes banking, tax, and ops dramatically easier.
⚙️ Automation / AI
Using AI to Design & Audit Your OS
Turn AI into a structural thinking partner for META, not a toy for one-off prompts.
Designing Your OS Ledger
What a true source-of-truth ledger looks like in a multi-platform, multi-currency stack.
Risk Buffers & Firebreaks in Your OS
Design isolation layers so one failure doesn't sink your entire system.
Common OS Anti-Patterns and How to Fix Them
Patterns that keep showing up in global founders' setups—and how to systematically refactor them.
Operational Cadence for a Global Solo Founder
Weekly and monthly rhythms to keep your global OS in check without turning into a bureaucrat.
Automation as Your First Ops Hire
You're spending three hours every Monday morning: downloading bank statements, categorizing transactions, updating your ledger, sending invo...