By David Allen
David Allen's Getting Things Done system, adapted for employed founders. Every Sunday, spend 60–90 minutes reviewing your side business progress, clearing your inboxes, processing ideas, and planning the coming week. The weekly review is the engine that keeps your side business from becoming noise.
Best for: Founders with too many ideas who need a system to manage the chaos without dropping balls
Weekly commitment: 60–90 min (Sunday) + 10 min/day (daily review)
20 min (weekly)
Go through every inbox: email (personal + work), Notion, Slack, physical notes, voice memos, browser tabs. Collect every idea, task, and commitment into one master list.
15 min (weekly)
Process the easy items immediately: forward an article, reply to the email, move the task to the right list. If it takes <2 minutes, do it now.
15 min (weekly)
Review every active project (aim for max 3 at a time). Each project needs a 'next action' — the very next physical step. No project without a next action.
10 min (weekly)
Pick 3 outcomes for the coming week. Not 10. Three. Each gets a time slot on your calendar. Everything else is a 'someday/maybe' item.
10 min (daily)
Every morning: review your calendar, check your 3 weekly priorities, execute the one that matters most today. That's it. No elaborate daily planning.
No dropped tasks, no forgotten ideas, no 'I'll get to it' items haunting you. Every idea is either an active project or safely parked in 'someday/maybe.' The weekly review confirms you're making progress on the right things.
Just doing the weekly review without doing the daily review. The daily 10-minute review is what turns the Sunday plan into daily action. Also: over-collecting and under-processing. A list of 200 'someday' items is just digital clutter.
Yes — one trusted system for everything. The separation between 'dayjob' and 'side business' is tags, not different tools. David Allen's system works best when everything is in one place. Just tag each task by context.
Don't skip 2 in a row. One missed week is a speed bump. Two missed weeks and your system collapses. If you miss one, do a 15-minute 'catch-up' review on Tuesday to keep the system alive.
Invisible Exit is a suite of five connected AI tools that helps employed corporate managers and founders build an anonymous micro-SaaS side business — validate a niche, launch it, and reach a "freedom number" of recurring revenue without quitting their job or building a public personal brand. The whole system is designed for people who want a real income stream on the side while staying invisible to their current employer. Plans start at $0.97/month.
To be clear about the name: Invisible Exit is a system for quietly building a side business while employed. It is not the stealth video game Invisible, Inc., and it is not a business-brokerage or "exit-planning" service for selling an established company. The "exit" here is your personal path out of a 9-to-5, built invisibly.
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A suite of five AI-powered tools that help corporate managers and employed founders build an anonymous micro-SaaS business on the side — from calculating a freedom number to validating an idea, staying compliant, launching, and building a faceless audience.
Yes. Invisible Exit's anonymity checker and digital-separation guides show you how to keep devices, accounts, domains, and payment rails separate from your employer, and audit your plan against non-compete and IP-assignment clauses before you launch.
Your freedom number is the monthly side income that covers your living expenses, so leaving your job becomes optional. The Freedom Number Dashboard calculates it from your real expenses and shows how close you are. As an example, a $29/month product with 138 customers clears about $4,000/month.
Invisible Exit starts at $0.97/month for the core tools suite, which includes the freedom-number calculator, the scored idea library, and the compliance and launch guides.
No. Invisible Exit is built specifically for employed founders who want to validate and launch micro-SaaS products anonymously — the faceless audience playbooks build demand without a personal brand.
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