OctoMonic 16 Aug 2026
Coaching session · Arnon Yaffe

The operating structure we landed on

Twelve decisions from the 16 August session, grouped by how to think, how to look, and how to act. Timestamps point back into the recording.

39 minutes Recorded 10:45 IDT Hebrew, transcribed locally Sunday weekly

The short version

  1. Monesys comes out from under OctoMonic. Two entities at the top of every view, then everything else hangs off them.
  2. OctoMonic is four channels at four maturities, not four equal products. One earns today, three do not yet, and that dictates the time split.
  3. Three tiers replace the flat list. Level 1 is roughly six items pulled from across all entities, worked at once. You drop a level only when Level 1 is running or blocked.
  4. Personal goes in first, not last. It is the reason for the money, so it is scheduled like a Level 1 item.

What you brought in: you had blocks running in the background, you knew you were meant to look at them differently rather than as one mass, because looking at the whole means things fall between the chairs. What you wanted was to know where to stop breaking them down. The answer that emerged was not a finer breakdown, it was a different set of axes.

How to think

Four corrections to the mental model. These change what counts as a good decision.

1 Two businesses, not one. Monesys does not sit under OctoMonic.
Arnon · 24:26 Monesys is a company in its own right. You are one of its partners. מונסיס זה חברה בפני עצמה בעצם. אתה אחד השותפים שלו.

You had Monesys nested inside OctoMonic. It is not inside it. OctoMonic is your sole business with four product lines. Monesys is a separate venture with partners, and Tripwise sits under Monesys rather than under OctoMonic.

Tom · 35:20 I go home and reframe my infrastructure, first to these two planes, because right now Monesys sits under OctoMonic and that is probably not the right way to look at it.
What follows from it: every list, priority stack, dashboard and financial view splits at the top into OctoMonic and Monesys, before it splits into anything else. The AIOS currently does not do this. See the open item at the bottom of this page.
2 The compass is the medium term, not whoever shouted last
Arnon · 11:06 What matters is holding that clear picture of where you want to take this in the medium and long term, and investing accordingly. Of everything in the here and now: what advances me toward where I want to get to, and what less. להחזיק את התמונה הברורה הזאת של לאן אני רוצה לקחת את זה בטווח הבינוני והרחוק, ובהתאם לזה איפה כדאי להשקיע. בכל מה שיש בכאן ועכשיו, מה מקדם אותי לאן שאני רוצה להגיע ומה פחות.

This is the filter, and it exists because of what the week looked like: GoMobile went from one project to four inside a day and a half, and JobHub reappeared in the same window. Without a stated destination, urgency does the ranking for you.

3 Selling hours has a ceiling. The asset does not.
Arnon · 08:24 09:55 Something that brings in money without depending on your availability puts you somewhere else entirely. When you sell your time there is a final cap. If you have made something with enough genericness that it fits others with light adaptation, you have won.

You already hold the raw material: eleven systems built, seven or eight of them interesting to most businesses. The missing piece is not building more, it is that none of them yet has enough meat to sell on its own.

Which makes Glassix the flagship, in your words at 34:43. A site agent that genuinely works is a product you can sell to anyone running WordPress. It is the one item on the board that is revenue today and product tomorrow at the same time, which is exactly why it outranks work that is only one of the two.

4 Handing over the spec is a product, not a discount

Arnon pushed on whether letting clients take your spec to other shops devalues you. Your answer held, and he then named it back cleanly: you are selling architecture and specification as a standalone product, and separately you also execute.

Arnon · 19:50 You are giving them, call it architecture services, specification. That is the feasibility check in itself. And separately you also have execution.

The posture that goes with it, which he was explicit about: it is obvious that cheaper people exist, and the client is not coming to you because you are cheap. Your own line was the right one, that you price honestly and are not slaughtering anyone, so the price can be stated without hedging.

How to look

Four viewing structures. These change what you see when you open the board.

5 Look at people, not project names

Your own diagnosis, and it was the first thing you said:

Tom · 01:06 Looking at Monesys on its own is very blurry for me, compared to looking at Gal, Jared and the third one, the three people we work with. Then I know: with Gal we have three products, with one of them we have Tripwise, with Jared we have his product.

The abstract container hides the work. The person surfaces it immediately. This generalises: anywhere a name on the board feels blurry, name the people instead and the deliverables appear by themselves.

Two of the three names came through the audio clearly, Gal and Jared. The third was garbled and I have not guessed it.

6 OctoMonic is four channels at four different maturities
Arnon · 27:44 I suggest you look at them as channels, at their level of maturity. אני מציע להסתכל עליהם כצ'אנלס, על רמת הבשלות שלהם.

You had them as four products. Treating them as four equal things is the error, because they are nowhere near equal.

ChannelMaturityWhat the evidence actually is
Software development Earning Paying clients, repeat clients, a real pipeline, a sales and close motion that works, and a waiting list of requests you have to prioritise inside
Consulting and accompaniment Part validated You already supply it and people already take it. Arnon called that the signal. The paid gate is partly there to test whether they will pay for it
Workshops and training Idea Not yet validated as demand anyone will pay for at a price that suits you. Open questions: which audience, which content, where your added value sits, whether the economics work. JobHub is the live test
Workspace setup Idea A defined product at ₪2,500 for a day or a day and a half on site. Not yet sold to anyone
Why the label matters: one channel funds the month and three do not. That is not a scoreboard, it is the input to the time split in decision 10. You do not give an idea-stage channel the same weekly hours as the one paying rent, and you do not starve it either.
7 The funnel is a product ladder, and it has a number on it
Step 0Intro call5 to 10 minutes, CTA on the site, target 100 a monthFree
Step 1Deep call30 minutes, 15 to 20 percent of step 0 converts₪250
Step 2Feasibility check and full specA document they can take to market, plus your own quote to build it₪1,500 to 2,500
Step 3Build, then maintenanceThe outcome you actually want₪30k to 50k + ₪1k to 3k/mo

Three branches come off the ₪250 rung rather than continuing up it: a workshop at ₪750 per employee across three two-hour sessions, a workspace setup at ₪2,500, or consulting and accompaniment.

Your own volume math from the session:

  • 100 intro calls a month needs roughly 400 approaches, through LinkedIn rather than Instagram, supported by content that builds authority in the space.
  • 100 calls at 10 minutes is about 17 hours.
  • 20 of them convert to the paid call, which is ₪5,000 and another 10 hours.
  • So about 20 hours a month buys ₪5,000 and fills the top of the development pipeline.
The point you made that reframes it: you are not clearing ₪500 an hour on project work however you slice it. Two paid calls a day beats your actual project hourly rate, and until now you were giving those calls away.
8 The steady state, named out loud

Seven or eight development projects at ₪30k to ₪50k each, each carrying ₪1,000 to ₪3,000 a month in maintenance. That covers the monthly nut and leaves ₪300k to ₪400k a year in recurring revenue.

Worth keeping visible because it converts a vague ambition into a countable one. You are not trying to earn more, you are trying to get to eight of a specific thing.

How to act

Four operating rules for the day and the week. These are the ones that change behaviour tomorrow morning.

9 Three tiers, each a mixed basket. This is the daily rule.

Your construction at 36:07 to 36:54, and the most directly actionable thing in the session.

Level 1 · about six items, worked at once

Two or three from GoMobile, two or three from Monesys, and so on across entities. Every working day starts here and stays here.

Level 2 · only when Level 1 is running or blocked

Everything dispatched, or three or four finished and the rest sitting on a long task. One from GoMobile, one from Monesys, two from OctoMonic.

Level 3 · below that

Real, ranked, and deliberately not looked at until the two levels above are genuinely idle.

Why this shape fits you and a flat list does not: you work ten windows across two screens, dispatching and moving on. A flat list starves you the second everything is running, and you fill the wait with whatever is loudest. A tier stack always has a defined next thing, so the gap gets filled by the plan rather than by the interruption.

The tier is the unit of prioritisation, not the project. GoMobile's four projects get ranked against each other and against Monesys work inside the same tier. That is the mechanism that stops one loud client owning your week.

10 Fund today first, then build tomorrow, with a named split
Arnon · 32:30 Decide first, for the development product, how much time to give it and how to spread it so it gives you the income it can and that you need right now. Then, in the remaining time, how do you develop the other products, how much and in what priority.

You have one channel that earns and three you want to build. The instruction is a sequence, not a preference: the earning channel gets its hours allocated first, then the rest of the week is consciously divided among the other three.

The word that matters is "named". Not "when I have time". A decided split, written down in advance, otherwise the earning channel silently takes all of it and the other three never leave idea stage.
11 Charge for the pre-sale conversation. It is already Step 1.

You diagnosed this yourself before Arnon touched it:

Tom · 11:34 I realised that in the sales process I invest a huge amount of time that nobody pays me for. People consult me and talk to me and call me, whether they are clients or not. So I said, at minimum let us put in a mechanism so that if I am spending that time anyway, at least I get paid for it.

₪250 is deliberately small. Cheap enough to be a non-decision for the buyer, enough to close the loop in their head, and it filters out the people who were never going to move. Everything above it stays free of pressure: the most anyone spends to fully understand what they want is ₪250.

12 The personal block is built in first, not left over
Tom · 37:05 Then I need to think about how, around all of this, I build the personal, the leisure, the body. That is what happens a lot of the time, that this personal bit gets squeezed. I do not want to give it up, because I enjoy it and it is part of what keeps me going.
Tom · 37:26 The only reason I want to earn a lot of money fast is that I want to enjoy it and do all these things.
So it is not competing with the work, it is the purpose of the work. Which settles how it gets scheduled: volunteering, the motorcycle, Arabic, singing, workouts, runs, basketball and acroyoga go into Level 1 as fixed blocks, and the work fills in around them. Any structure where they are the remainder contradicts the reason for the structure.

Horizon

Targets and commitments you named in the session.

By end of September
₪25k to 30k
From projects already in motion
By end of December
₪25k to 30k
Contingent on Glassix and things landing
Two to three month total
₪60k
The number you are actually trying to raise
Also around September
Business sale
The venture alongside Beertza that you want out of

What the money is for, stated in the session: Thailand in December, a ski trip in January. Your line was that you do not have the money for it yet, but you do have the projects for it.

Live items

Things the session surfaced that are moving right now.

GoMobile went from one project to four in a day and a half
  • Project two, already underway.
  • Extending project one across the whole product catalogue, a mini project in its own right.
  • A queue management system for the Eilat branch. Framed as a pilot, and on your own read they will want it in other branches.
  • Glassix on top, still pending their answer, and bigger than the rest.
  • Plus the lab item and the logistics project already sent and never picked up.

You told them three at once is a month and a half rather than two or three weeks, and that you need to know whether Glassix or these three come first.

That answer is still outstanding, and it gates Level 1. Worth chasing before you fix the week, because the tier assignment changes depending on it.
JobHub meeting Thursday

You rated it a bird on the tree rather than in the hand, and then made the case against your own caution: the numbers are the most interesting on the board. Roughly 25 hours a month covering almost the entire monthly nut, with two people you read as serious and moving.

It is also the live test of the workshops channel, and you have already built a large part of the workshop itself. The scale idea you raised: connect it to the employment ministry so people arrive through that route, then teach others to deliver it, with your brother running five to ten workshops a week. That is the version where workshops stop being time for money.

Beertza signed, waiting on the advance

They signed and you now owe them a website, held until the advance arrives. Clarified in the session for the record: you are not a partner in Beertza itself. You are a partner with them in a separate adjacent business, and that is the one you want to exit and sell.

Open

The AIOS still has Monesys under OctoMonic

Decision 1 says the top-level split is OctoMonic and Monesys as peers. Right now Monesys is a project folder inside the OctoMonic AIOS, alongside GPI and the dashboard, which is precisely the nesting you said was wrong.

Restructuring that touches the project index, the status files, the agent personas and the financial views, so it is not something to do quietly in the background. Say the word and it becomes the next piece of work.

The task list needs re-cutting against this

The 118 item inventory built before this session is organised by life area. The structure agreed here is entity, then channel by maturity, then tier. Those are different axes, so the list is still correct in content and wrong in shape.

Re-cutting it into the tier model is the obvious next move, and it is what turns this session into a week you can actually run.