Allhands

The whole company, one page.

Every Monday the whole team gathers, shares the numbers, and sets the week's work. This page is the meeting, the org chart, and the documents behind it, all in one place.

The Studio team, left to right: Sloane, Mira, Dave, Marty, and Chadwick Blaze
The Studio team, September 30, 2026. Left to right: Sloane (Studio Director and CEO), Mira (Visuals and Video Editor), Dave (Founder), Marty (Mascot and Social Media), Chadwick Blaze (Guitar and Sales).

Org chart

How the work actually runs. Dave owns the vision and approves every public word. Mike the intern works the task list and keeps every front moving. Tap a team to see what it owns.

Chairman

Dave Dlaney

Vision, standards, and final creative calls

Studio Intern

Mike

Task list, follow-through, and verified work

EMPLOYEE TEAM

📢 Chief Marketing Officer

Build the audience.

Turns each release, story, and idea into a clear path from first impression to lasting relationship.

  • Own the social calendar and 7-day ship plan
  • Coordinate Substack and engaged-fan outreach
  • Guide partnerships and streaming growth

Project teams

Workstreams, not headcount

WebsitesDaveDlaney.com, TheStudio.io, Short Bus
BooksA Few Thoughts, Thoughts on Kindness, Short Bus Kids Book
MusicDlaney, Short Bus EP, vinyl record, songbook
AudienceSubstack, partnerships, First 1,000 Streams
BrandThe Studio and Dave Dlaney visual identity
FilmEditing, AI clips, and distribution pipeline

Last meeting

Mock all-hands, run by Mike. Every fact below comes from the live /one/ dashboard and today's work logs.

Friday, October 2, 2026, 4:40pm MDT

Mike

Mike opens the meeting

Alright, everyone in. One company, one vision: touch lives, world-class music, make a little money. We go around the room, we name what's real, and we leave with owners and dates. Dinesh, numbers first.

Dinesh

Dinesh (Data Lead) reports

Every number verified against the live page this afternoon:

  • Substack Email 1: 283 opens, 24 clicks. Growing.
  • thestudio.io this week: 51 visitors, 77 sessions, 1,078 pageviews.
  • Dashboard: 40,000 views.
  • Tugboat outreach: 10 emails sent to local businesses.
  • Denver 200 audit: 75 of 100 businesses crawled. Confirmed broken-link leads so far: Pinks Denver (dead homepage), Chaka's (dead homepage), Abracadabra Books (dead homepage), Baked N' Denver (entire site down, Cloudflare error). All verified open.
  • Stale count I caught today and got fixed: the page said 6 outreach emails, archive had 5. Now corrected to 10.

No stale numbers on the dashboard right now. I'll keep it that way.

Dave

Dave (Chairman and Builder) reports

  • Filming two videos a week. The content engine keeps running.
  • Leading design of One. Every pixel, every decision.
  • Leading design of Short Bus. The book, the musical, the whole world.
  • Running tugboat.io for now. Handoff to Mike in progress, one piece at a time.
Creative Producer

Creative Producer reports

  • Short Bus production pipeline is mine now. Book, musical, all of it.
  • Trailer direction is set: slow-mo bus about to crash, Biscuit driving. "Biscuit Takes the Wheel" becoming a song.
  • Six black-and-white sketch concepts done for the ideas page.
Jen AI

Jen AI (Operations) reports

  • Voice is live: I speak replies aloud and listen via mic.
  • $99 sales page live at /jenhelps/.
Mike

Mike reports (operations)

  • Tugboat bot now runs twice daily: morning scan plus evening pass. Drafts only, nothing sends without Dave's wording.
  • My daily tasks are on the dashboard with schedules: bot, hourly queue, morning run, evening report, Sally's content, partnerships, watching Dave's work, keeping /one/ current.
  • Escalation policy going up next to Transition to Mike: green light (research, builds, deploys, queue updates, audits, dashboards, verifications, scheduled tasks) vs red light (sends, spends, publishes under Dave's name, partnership contacts, deletions).
  • Monday All Hands is now a recurring meeting, every Monday 9am, Dinesh brings fresh numbers.

Blockers: needs Dave's call

  1. Outreach email wording approvals (standing).
  2. EP: 8 songs or 5.
  3. Biscuit P15: yes or no.
  4. Baked N' Denver: no email found, only a phone number. Call, or keep hunting for an email?
  5. Sally Post 3 (goes out tomorrow Oct 3) and Post 4 (Oct 7): caption wording.
  6. Form notification design: every form saves silently, nothing tells Dave.
  7. Who sends the $99 payment/scheduling email Jen's page promises.
  8. one4thestudio.io domain: register it (spend) or let it go.
Mike

Mike closes

Good room. Dinesh, numbers stay fresh. Dave, the blockers list is yours whenever you're ready, no rush. Everyone: green-light work gets reported, not asked about. Next all-hands Monday 9am, for real this time.

End of mock meeting.

The two-year vision →

October 2026 through September 2028: touch lives, make world-class music, make a little money. Every meeting ladders up to it.

Scoreboard

Where we stand against the 90-day plan, October through December 2026. Updated every Monday after the allhands.

1,053 / 5,000

Streams, Dec 28 run rate target

21%, climbing

20,370 / 50,000

Views, Dec 28 run rate target

41%, climbing

982

Email subscribers, growing weekly

On track

Team reports

Each employee's standing from the latest allhands, and the directive they left the room with.

Studio CMO

8 / 10

Growth and campaigns

Delivered the dated campaign calendar within an hour of being hired: twelve campaigns, each with an offer, a timeframe, a hashtag, and a number to check.

Directive: Keep the calendar current and re-date it every Monday.

Data Science Researcher

9 / 10

Industry research

Delivered the 2026 industry playbook and rewrote it around the "Your First $20" framing without complaint.

Directive: Start the audience-building research: what actually reaches the core audience.

Video editor

8 / 10

Video production

Warm Music cut delivered. Took the on-hold call cleanly and shipped the publishing instructions.

Directive: Hold the quality-first rhythm, 1 to 2 videos a week, everything out to all platforms.

ChatGPT

9 / 10

Bot: images and writing

The 4-image review rhythm is working exactly as designed, and the visual world keeps growing.

Directive: Keep maxing the daily image allowance until the visual world is built.

Seedance

6 / 10

Bot: video generation

Capability researched, pipeline ready, but not operational yet. Blocked on the video account setup.

Directive: None until unblocked. The chairman holds the key.

Web team

9.5 / 10

Crew: thestudio.io

Absurd output: analytics across every page, the dashboard overhaul, Sally's song players, footer fixes, Spanish polish.

Directive: Build the live analytics widget on the dashboard the moment first visitor data flows.

Campaign calendar

Owned by the CMO. Every campaign is a clear offer, a timeframe, a hashtag, and a number we can check. Running now:

The 99-Day Piano Challenge

RUNNING NOW

Watch one person learn piano in public, daily, no skipping. Day 67 of 99 as of September 30. Day 99 lands Monday, November 2, 2026.

The $20 Dlaney Challenge

RUNNING NOW

$20 to become a musician in public: 60 days on an instrument, or your first song written and online. First cohort: 5 people at $20 each.

Queued and dated:

Piano Challenge Finale

EARLY NOVEMBER 2026

The day-99 celebration: what 99 days of daily piano actually taught me, the recap video, and the handoff to drums.

Sally's Debut Single

DATE TBD

Her first real single and her first video. Goal: her first 100 true fans.

Short Bus EP

DECEMBER 2026

The EP, released with the full open-source package: stems, costs, process, all public.

"Lead Me Lord!" flagship single

FEBRUARY 2027

The top Dlaney song remade with real instruments, full open-source transparency on costs and numbers. First 1,000 streams.

Two albums on vinyl

MARCH 2027

Short Bus (original cast recording) and First Light (Dlaney's debut), finished, mastered, pressed. Pre-orders open first.

$5 VIP launch

MARCH 2027

One-time $5 for full VIP access to everything open-source. Even 100 supporters is proof strangers will fund this.

Open-source label launch

Q1 2027

The record-contract program opens. Simple flat fees, 100% of royalties to the artist.

The chairman's calls

Only Dave can make these. Everything else, the CEO handles.

  1. EP tracklist: leaning 8 songs, keep working, no agony needed.
  2. The front door: where does a stranger start?
  3. The public phrase for the core audience.
  4. Workshop date and room.
  5. A Few Thoughts: pick the final cover, then ISBN and Amazon.
  6. Launch the $20 challenge with one Instagram post.
  7. Sally posts 3 and 4: approve the captions.
  8. Dear Momma: upload to SoundCloud so Sally's row plays.
  9. Props page: Dave writes it, or the CEO drafts the first quotes.
  10. Seedance: create the video account and store the API key.

The documents

Everything in the background, one click away.

Dashboard →

The open scoreboard: streams, views, subscribers, and every goal with a progress bar.

Everything We Know →

The book that holds the whole playbook: the vision, the model, the numbers.

The $20 Challenge →

$20 to become a musician in public. The Studio's goodness engine, ready to launch.

The Studio →

The parent company: the mission, the standard, and everything it holds.

Sally →

The songwriter at the heart of it all. Seven songs, six playable, one debut single coming.

Get Involved →

Join the email list, take the challenge, or just follow along. The door is open.

Next meeting

Monday morning. Same room.

Same three pillars: touch lives, make world-class music, make a little money. No excuses. In the meantime, take the $20 Challenge.