Creative Sessions.
There's a kind of person I've never been able to stay away from.
They have an idea. Usually they've had it for a while. It lives in their head, in voice notes, in a notebook, in dinner conversations that end with "one day." Nothing is missing from the idea itself. What's missing is its form — a name, a shape, a first version someone else can actually hold. And the longer it stays in their head, the heavier it gets.
I've been sitting next to people like that for thirty years. Founders, mostly, and friends. A friend who had spent forty years building a way to help people find their vocation, and had never seen it outside of himself — in one afternoon it became an app, with a name, an onboarding and its own logic. Another who could do almost anything, and still couldn't say what she sold. Another who had the company but not its face. Each time the idea was already there. It just needed someone to sit down and make it with them.
That's what a session is. We talk first, because the good questions come before the good answers. Then we make: the name, the story, the offer, the first real version you can show someone the next morning. Not a deck about what you should do someday. The thing itself.
Yes, AI is in the room. It's why a thought that used to take a year now takes an afternoon, and why I can keep up with how fast a good conversation moves. But it's a tool on the table, not the point. The point is that you walk out with something that exists.
There's no fixed format. Some ideas need an afternoon. Some need a few days. It ends when the thing feels real, not when a contract says so. And everything we make is yours, entirely.
I don't do many of these. They happen when the person, the idea and the moment line up. If you've been carrying one of those ideas around, you probably already know which one.
— Bob