Small Company Almanac · Est. MMXXVI

Field notes on small, high-leverage companies and the financial infrastructure they need but don't yet have.

Edited by Clayton Bryan.

$2.5M Avg. revenue per employee Top of the AI-native distribution

74% Already profitable on the Lean AI Leaderboard

$106B VC secondary volume trailing twelve months

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