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  <title><![CDATA[Amber Rocket]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Amber Rocket is a London consultancy that helps founders and small teams take their business apart, understand what's not working, and rebuild with clarity.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Decision fatigue in founders: what it looks like and what helps]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Decision fatigue in founders doesn't usually look like exhaustion. It looks like a calendar full of meetings that feel necessary, a growing list of things that are almost decided, and a creeping sense that the business is running you rather than the other way around. It's common, it's specific to the founder role, and the usual advice about delegation and time-blocking only goes so far.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:14:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[When did you last actually look at your pricing?]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Pricing is one of those things that most small business owners think about constantly and review almost never. The number gets set, usually in the first year, usually by a combination of what competitors charge and what feels defensible in a sales conversation. And then it stays there, while the business around it changes.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:28:34 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[When your business logic stops fitting its own size]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There's a particular kind of stuck that doesn't announce itself loudly. The business is still running. Revenue is coming in. But decisions that used to feel obvious now feel murky, and the team keeps having the same conversations without resolving them. This is usually the moment when the original business logic has stopped fitting the business's current size.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:10:30 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What is a business diagnostic and do you need one?]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The term 'business diagnostic' gets used in a lot of different ways by a lot of different consultants. At Amber Rocket, it means something specific: a structured two-week process that maps how your business actually operates, surfaces the friction points, and produces a clear written picture of what's going on and why. It's not a strategy document and it's not a list of recommendations. It's a map.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:03:52 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to run a strategy day that actually produces something]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The strategy away-day has a bad reputation, and mostly for good reason. A room full of people, a facilitator with a lot of coloured markers, and by four o'clock a wall covered in ideas that nobody is quite sure how to act on. The problem isn't the format. It's the preparation, and specifically the failure to agree on what question the day is actually trying to answer.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 19:31:35 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Positioning versus branding: what small businesses get confused]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Branding and positioning get used interchangeably in a lot of small business conversations, and the confusion is understandable. They're related. But they're not the same thing, and investing in the wrong one at the wrong time is one of the more expensive mistakes a small business can make.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:53:26 GMT</pubDate>
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