From Tuesday's meeting to Friday's review.
Six steps, one loop. This page walks the week the way a firm actually lives it: a meeting ends, work gets committed, priorities get protected, relationships stay warm, open files move, and Friday closes the loop. Then it starts again.
Top 2 locked. Candidates from last week's meetings reviewed.
Discovery call ends. Four candidates drafted, three committed.
Beacon Law hits 45 days. The next touch lands in the queue.
Northwind pursuit flagged stalled. New next step, new date.
Weekly review assembled. What moved, what stalled, what's next.
One operating loop, run on the calendar the firm already keeps. Each step below is a moment in the week where firms lose momentum, and what Ventura does there instead.
Signal → review · every weekThe meeting ends. The work begins on time.
Most of the work that needs to happen this week was decided in a meeting that happened last week. The notes get written, sometimes; the next steps get half-remembered, mostly. Ventura reads the meeting and drafts the candidates: each with a suggested owner and a suggested date, none of them real until a person says so.
You decide what gets kept.
Nothing enters the firm's work on its own. A person reviews each candidate, confirms the owner, sets the date, and commits it. Or declines it, and it's gone. Ventura never auto-creates a task. That single rule is why the task list stays believable.
Two priorities, locked before the day starts.
Each morning opens with the two actions that protect the firm, held at the top of the day. Exactly two, enforced by the product, no exceptions. Everything else queues honestly underneath, where it waits its turn instead of pretending to be urgent.
The cadence runs even when the week is loud.
Every referrer carries a cadence. We build it around 45 days because that is where most firms feel the cold shoulder kick in. When a relationship drifts past its mark, the next touch lands in the queue as a candidate: a coffee, an intro, an assist from the give-first ledger.
Pursuits and files move on the same surface.
Open pursuits carry a next step with an owner and a date; client files carry health and WIP. When either stalls, the flag lands in the same queue as the rest of the week's work. One list of what needs a decision, not five tools to check.
The partner meeting starts with the answer sheet open.
Ventura assembles the weekly review from the week itself: what moved, what stalled, which priorities held, and what next week's Top 2 candidates look like. The partners spend Friday deciding, not reconstructing. Monday's loop is loaded before anyone leaves.
Rhythm is the product.
Not the tasks, not the dashboards. A week that opens with two protected priorities and closes with an honest review, every week, for years. That compounding is what Ventura is for.