Glossary
The vocabulary captains use. Each entry has its own page with the long definition, origin, and where the term shows up across MaxShip content. Hover any term inline anywhere on the site for a quick definition popover.
14 terms · grows as we publish.
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- Blueprint A paid, multi-stack, multi-mental-system buildout with a specific outcome. The deep playbook for shipping a specific kind of business or system.
- Business Eco Stack The Captain's Flywheel taken as a whole — Command + Compute + Cadence — packaged as a stack you buy from MaxShip to run a business end-to-end.
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- Cadence The rhythm layer of the Captain's Flywheel. Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly loops where work compounds and feedback closes.
- Captain The person at the helm of their MaxShip — the operator who stays in command of strategy, decisions, and direction even as AI does the labor.
- Captain's Flywheel The operating model behind every MaxShip business. Three layers — Command, Compute, Cadence — spinning together as one motion.
- Command The brain layer of the Captain's Flywheel. The shared thinking — strategy, decisions, intent — that you and your AI both read.
- Command Kit MaxShip's open-source folder template. Markdown files that personalize to your business — the canonical artifact of the Command layer.
- Compute The engine layer of the Captain's Flywheel. AI models, agents, MCPs, deployed services — the crew that moves work under the captain's command.
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- Stack A technology bundle organized for a specific class of problem. The unit of Compute that captains pull on — Cloudflare Stack, Content Stack, MCP Stack.
- Strategic planning The captain's slow-cadence job. Setting direction at quarterly + yearly cadence and validating that direction against real data via the Strategic cadence.