Nobody told me the real job was moving data between tabs

Two years ago I was running growth for a small team. Four people, six tools, one shared Notion doc that nobody trusted anymore.

The actual problem wasn't any single tool. Each one worked fine on its own. The CRM knew the deals. Analytics knew the traffic. The content scheduler knew what was queued. But none of them knew what the others knew, and the person connecting all of them was me, every single week.

Monday morning looked like this: pull last week's numbers from Analytics, re-enter them into a Sheet for the report, check the CRM to see which leads came from which campaign, copy that into the same Sheet, then open the content tool to see what actually went out versus what I thought went out.

By the time I finished the report it was almost noon. I hadn't done anything yet.

The AI tools made it worse before they made it better. They were good at writing a draft. Then I'd take the draft, paste it somewhere else, schedule it manually, go back and check if it posted, screenshot the post for the report. The AI saved me 20 minutes on the writing and added 45 minutes of coordination on either side.

What I wanted was something that could hold the whole picture at once. Not just draft the post, but schedule it, publish it, update the CRM when a lead came through, and tell me what the platform actually confirmed, not just what I thought happened.

And crucially: ask me before anything went out to a customer. That part wasn't negotiable.

We built dolv around that idea. One workspace, connected to the tools you already use. It does the work, pauses at the right boundary, and reports what shipped.

If you've felt the same coordination tax, worth a look: dolv

Happy to answer questions about how we handle the approval layer specifically, that's the part people ask about most.