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In today's newsletter:
Latest Podcasts: What You Missed
Leverage-First Organizations: Antidote to Unicorn Dreams and Small Business Limits - The rise of the Leverage-First Organizations, and "Scalemaxxing" approaches to growth.
Hear how one company has grown consistently and scalably to over $6.5M in ARR with just a dozen people
Ambitious… But Lazy - What if the real goal of building a business isn’t doing more… but getting things to work without you?
10,000+ Customers With 15 People – How SweepBright scaled to over 10,000 customers with a team of just 15. A practical conversation with Raphael Bochner on leverage, focus, and designing a business that grows without growing headcount.
Hiring without Hiring – How to scale without adding payroll or burning out.
The Minimal Scalemaxxing Tech Stack: 30 Essential Tools
You have dozens SaaS subscriptions.
You use 11 of them.
You forgot the login for 22 of them. You're paying for 14 tools that do the exact same thing. Half your team doesn't know the other half of the tools exist.
Every founder starts with "let's keep the tech stack lean." Six months later, you're drowning in apps. Slack, Notion, Asana, Monday, ClickUp, Linear. HubSpot, Pipedrive, Close, Salesforce. Zapier connecting things that probably shouldn't be connected.
Tool bloat isn't just expensive. It's cognitive overhead. Every new tool is a decision to make, a login to remember, an integration to maintain, and a place where work can get lost.
Microteams can't afford tool sprawl.
The best tech stacks aren't the ones with the most tools. They're the ones with the fewest tools that cover the most ground. You need a stack that's minimal but mighty.
This list is 30 tools that microteams actually use to run entire businesses—not 30 categories with 5 options each. One tool per function. No overlap. No bloat.
Let's build your stack.
What Success Looks Like for Microteams
For a successful scalemaxxing team, a good tech stack means:
One tool per job. You don't have three project management tools competing for attention.
Deep integration, not duct tape. Your tools talk to each other natively or through one automation layer (Zapier/Make).
Everyone uses everything. No orphaned tools that only one person touches.
Common failure modes:
Tool tourism: Trying every new app that launches on Product Hunt
Feature chasing: Switching tools for one feature you'll use once
Tribal knowledge: Critical workflows buried in tools only one person knows how to use
Success for a microteam is running a 7-figure business on 10-15 tools, max.
The Resources
This is THE stack. One tool per category. Use these and nothing else for 90 days before adding anything new.