Business enablement · Brisbane, Australia

Lorenz Villalba.

Business Enablement Project Lead · Askable Founder · The System Folks Consulting · Open

I help ambitious teams scale by building the systems beneath the work. Less deck, more system. The work that compounds.

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How I work

Foundations first. AI second.

You can't enable AI well if the operations underneath are weak and the data is messy. Most people selling "AI" skip the plumbing. The plumbing is where I start.

P / 01Understand the outcome.Define what we're actually trying to achieve before anything gets built. Problems get solved faster when you spend longer naming them.
P / 02Build the smallest version that works.A rough v1 that already has impact beats a polished v3 that took three months.
P / 03Iterate on the friction.Find where it breaks, slows, or gets ignored. That's the signal. Polish comes later.
P / 04Adjust, then stop.Refine until the outcome is met. Over-building is procrastination with extra steps.

The pattern repeats in every role below: enter with no structure, build the operational foundations, then layer documentation, tooling, and AI automation on top.

The story so far

Nine years, scrolled backwards.

Most recent first. Keep scrolling to go back in time.

2026

That's the story so far. The next chapter could be yours.

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Toolchain · 33 tools · 9 categories · 3 tiers

Tech.

Every tool I work with and what it does for me. Search, switch the grouping, and tap any tool to read how I actually use it.

33 of 33 tools

The work.

A loosely organised museum of things I've built, shipped, or co-founded.

Case study

Taskie — Meeting Task Logger

Notion agent that turns meeting transcripts into owner-tagged tasks, so actions never die in the notes.

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AI Systems

OpenClaw Setup

24/7 personal AI infrastructure on a dedicated machine, running a team of specialised agents across business and personal life.

2026 · Ongoing
AI Systems

Hevy + Claude Integration

Custom MCP server so Claude can coach against my real training data.

2026
E-commerce

Puggle Adventure: Origin Story

Founded a DTC playtent brand and ran it solo to ~$100K revenue in year one.

2025–2026
E-commerce

Puggle Adventure: Brand & Identity

Positioning, ICP work, and identity, from naming to unboxing.

2025–2026
E-commerce

Puggle Adventure: Growth & Paid Media

Hands-on Meta ads: campaign structure, creative iteration, budget management.

2025–2026
Team Management

My Management Ethos

The operating principles behind leading a global delivery team.

2026
Team Management

Hiring Framework

Repeatable hiring process for operators who run independently.

2026
Team Management

Performance Strategy

Structured reviews and growth paths for a global delivery team.

2026
Team Management

Building Success Metrics

Defining the metrics that show whether the team is winning.

2026
Operations & Process

Project Lifecycle Implementation

End-to-end lifecycle tooling at Askable, brief to handover.

2026
Operations & Process

Notion Knowledgebase Structure

Knowledge bases built for Askable and Neuron Mobility, used daily.

2026
Operations & Process

Project Handover Process

Handover process that lifted delivery quality and cut scope creep.

2026

Contact.

My digital business card. Click the card to flip it over.

Lorenz Villalba
◈ BUSINESS ENABLEMENT BNE / AU

LORENZ VILLALBA

CONSULTANT · SYSTEMS & OPS

Builds the systems beneath the work — scaled ops across 8 Australian city launches, led 300+ staff, now shipping automation that runs on autopilot.

$40M+GMV SCALED 300+STAFF LED
⌖ CONTACT LV / 2026
EMAIL lorenzvillalba@gmail.com
LOCATION Brisbane, Australia
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01 /Front — the work at a glance.
02 /Back — email, location, and LinkedIn. Click the card to turn it over.

Send a short note about what you're working on, what you're looking for, and any timing that matters.

I read every message and reply within a few days.

Play.

Three shots. Pull, aim, release. Played basketball growing up, this is the human bit between the consulting copy.

Three misses

Pull back, aim, release. Keep shooting until you've missed three. Score as many as you can before then.

Projects / Taskie

Taskie.

A Notion agent that reads meeting transcripts, pulls out the action items, assigns owners, and pushes them straight into my project management tool.

RoleSolo — designer, builder, user Year2026 StatusRunning daily StackNotion Agent → ClickUp

Follow a meeting through

The system end to end. Click any step, or let it run.

What happens

The transcript lands in the meeting note in Notion — exactly where it always did. Nothing new to capture, no new habit to build.

Why it's built this way

Trigger off where the data already lives. The system starts from the notes I was already taking, so the adoption cost is zero.

What happens

The new transcript trips the Notion agent automatically. It runs whether or not I remember it exists — there is no button.

Why it's built this way

Run on autopilot. A manual kick-off is exactly the activation cost that made the old way fail.

What happens

The agent reads the back-and-forth and pulls out every action item — the part I used to do by hand, meeting after meeting.

Why it's built this way

This is where the time went. The items were always in the notes; they just needed extracting reliably.

What happens

Each task gets an owner. Mine drop into a priority bucket that puts work I can action myself at the front of the list.

Why it's built this way

Added after the first hundred tasks. A raw capture list stops being workable; the bucket keeps it honest.

What happens

Tasks land in ClickUp alongside the rest of my work, and the processed meeting note is auto-archived.

Why it's built this way

Push results to where the work happens. Action items don't get done in note form.

01The problem

I sit in a lot of meetings each week with different people and stakeholders. Keeping track of what I'm actually meant to action out of each one is the part that quietly eats time. The notes are there in Notion, but the action items live inside them, buried in the back-and-forth.

Before Taskie, tasks would slip. Not all of them, but enough to be a problem. The activation cost of opening every meeting note, pulling out my action items by hand, and dropping them into my project management tool was just high enough that I'd defer it, then forget it.

PHASE 01Notice the leak

Tasks were slipping — not all of them, but enough to be a problem. The action items were always in the Notion notes, buried in the back-and-forth, and the manual step of pulling them out was just costly enough that I'd defer it, then forget it.

Meeting notes in NotionManual task entryDeferred → dropped

PHASE 02Set the rules

Three principles before any building, so every wiring decision had a test to pass: trigger off where the data already lives — no new capture surface, no new habit. Push results to where the work happens — tasks land in the project management tool, not back in Notion. Run on autopilot — if it's not automatic, the activation cost doesn't drop.

P/01 Trigger at the dataP/02 Push to the workP/03 No manual step

PHASE 03Build the agent

Sole designer and builder. Built partly to test the new Notion agent functionality and find where it actually fits real work: the agent watches for new transcripts, extracts action items with owners, and pushes them straight into ClickUp.

Key decisionNo review queue. A human checkpoint would have quietly become the new activation cost — the exact failure being designed out.
Notion AgentClickUpAuto-archive

PHASE 04Ship on autopilot

Switched on against live meetings, not a test set. From day one it ran on every new transcript with no manual kick-off — and no dropped tasks from any meeting that went through it.

Live from day oneZero manual entry

PHASE 05Iterate in production

After the first hundred tasks the raw list stopped being workable, so I added a priority bucket that puts work I can action myself at the front. Usage is the roadmap — the system keeps showing me where the next fix is.

Priority bucket100+ tasks in
03Before / after
01Open every meeting note from the weekManual
02Re-read the back-and-forth for my action itemsManual
03Copy each one into the project management toolManual
04Defer the whole ritual to "later"Deferred
05The ones I never got back toDropped
01Meeting ends, transcript lands in NotionAutomatic
02Tasks appear in ClickUp — owner-tagged and prioritisedAutomatic
03Nothing slips. I just work the list.Done
04The outcome
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Tasks captured
AUTO
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Zero
Dropped tasks since

100+ tasks captured across 50+ meetings since launch. No manual entry of action items, no dropped tasks from the meetings that go through it.

Notion/Notion Agent/ClickUp/Auto-archive
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