The Archive · 24 essays · Updated weekly

Field notes,
not theories.

Operating receipts from building Treamer in a country of 1.3 million. Nordic SMBs, born-global motion, and the unglamorous middle. No courses. No coaching. Just what worked — and what didn't.

The 1.3 million advantage

Why small countries ship global software faster than the unicorn factories.

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The cold email that closed a €240K deal

Three sentences. No deck. Sent on a Tuesday at 7:14 in the morning. Here's the file.

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Treamer · Week 12 in public

MRR, churn, the broken onboarding flow, and the one customer call that changed the roadmap.

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The sauna as a meeting room

Nordic deal-making is high-context. Here's the unwritten rulebook nobody hands you.

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The unglamorous middle

Year two is when most founders quit. Not because it's hard — because it's boring.

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I fired my biggest customer

They paid €18K/month. They cost €40K/month in opportunity. The maths nobody publishes.

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Born global by default

If your home market is 1.3M people, "expansion" isn't a phase — it's the first slide.

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The no-courses rule

Why I'll never sell a course, a cohort, or a coaching call. And what I do instead.

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Hiring without recruiters

Six hires, zero agency fees. The exact intake template, scorecard and reference loop.

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