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Clint Sievers
Clint Sievers

I find the gap between a nonprofit's intentions and its numbers, and I build what closes it.

They asked me to scale our fastest methodology. I scaled the cost table instead.

Aug 17, 2026

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5 min read

They asked me to scale our fastest methodology. I scaled the cost table instead.

The speed everyone wanted to copy wasn't the process. It was a hundred projects with one client.

Clint Sievers
Clint Sievers
We told them everything except how bad it was going to be

Aug 11, 2026

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5 min read

We told them everything except how bad it was going to be

Then I did the same thing to my own council, with numbers I built myself.

Clint Sievers
Clint Sievers
Our budget balanced every year for a decade.

Aug 3, 2026

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5 min read

Our budget balanced every year for a decade.

It was wrong the whole time.

Clint Sievers
Clint Sievers

Unchecked Assumptions

I build, and own, the artifacts that get nonprofits to stop spinning in place: the financial model, the system that makes the work visible, the conversation where people feel part of the answer. It usually starts with an assumption nobody's checked in years.

© 2026 Unchecked Assumptions.
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