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Reference: the 5 Outcomes cheat card and career ladder

Print, pin, use forever

This lesson is different — it's not for reading once, it's for using daily. Everything below is a reference card: the 5 Outcomes, the career ladder, the 7 Laws, and the two habits (daily audit, weekly review) that turn the Operating System from theory into muscle. Pin the outcomes card above your monitor. Reread the Laws on Monday mornings. Run the audits on schedule, forever.

Key idea: Before any task, one question: which outcome? If there's no answer, kill the task. That single habit is the entire Operating System compressed to five words.

Card 1 — the 5 Outcomes

Outcome	Definition	Measure	You contribute
O1 Listing Won	Seller signs a Listing Agreement	Listings signed/quarter, conversion rate	Prep, CMA, follow-up
O2 Listing Sold	Signed listing closes — deed records	Sell-through, DOM, on-time close rate	Launch, marketing, contingency tracking
O3 Buyer Represented	Buyer the team represents closes	Buyers under contract, fall-out rate	Lead response, BRA, showings, lender
O4 Trust Earned	Past client returns or refers another	Repeat rate, referral revenue, NPS	Anniversaries, content, outreach
O5 Operations Clean	Zero compliance fails, missed deadlines, wire fraud — ever	Audits, late closings, incidents (target = 0)	File audits, BRA, wire verification

Card 2 — the career ladder

Level · window	Pay	Bar to clear
L1 Task Operator · 0–6 mo	$5–8/hr (~₱46k–74k/mo)	30+ error-free CRM updates/wk · 20+ emails triaged · daily brief + EOD wrap · zero compliance failures
L2 Outcome Owner · 6–24 mo	$8–14/hr (~₱74k–130k/mo)	One outcome, no supervision: O1 >40% conversion · O2 100% on-time launches · O3 <5-min response, set-to-show >70% · O4 referral revenue +15% YoY · O5 zero incidents
L3 Pipeline Architect · 24–48 mo	$14–22/hr (~₱130k–204k/mo)	Ships 1–2 measurable improvements/quarter · hires + trains an L1 · cross-trained on 3+ outcomes · inheritable documentation
L4 Operating Partner · 48+ mo	$22+/hr, equity or profit share	Ops P&L · manages REVAs + vendors · negotiates contracts · ships 1+ new revenue line/year

After L4: exit, within 12–24 months — your own business, equity in a real estate operation, or a broader ops role. The program supports the exit; "career REVA" was never the plan.

Card 3 — the 7 Laws

Outcomes over activity — no outcome, no task
Speed over perfection — ship AI-drafted with light editing; done > perfect
Surface mistakes within 1 hour — "Here's what happened, here's the fix, here's what changes"
Wire fraud is zero-tolerance — phone-verify every instruction via a separately-sourced number; one failure = grounds for termination
BRA hygiene before every showing — no signed BRA, no appointment
AI disclosure when client-facing — "Prepared with AI assistance, reviewed by [name]"
Sleep is part of the job — burnout is a fireable failure mode

Habit 1 — the daily outcome audit (60 seconds)

List today's top 3 tasksBefore touching any work.

Tag each oneO1 / O2 / O3 / O4 / O5 — or KILL. If KILL, write why it's on your list at all.

Pick today's biasOne outcome to lean toward, and today's biggest risk in one line.

Habit 2 — the weekly self-review (10 minutes, Fridays)

Log: hours spent per outcome (O1–O5) and on busywork · % of time on outcome work · mistakes surfaced (must equal mistakes made) · Law violations (target 0 — if any, which Law and what changes) · did you sleep on schedule (Law 7) · the L-level you're honestly operating at, with evidence · one thing you'll start next week · one thing you'll kill.

Pro move: Keep every weekly review in one running doc. At raise time, you'll have 26 weeks of receipts — outcome hours, shipped improvements, zero-incident streaks — instead of feelings.

The Outcome Sorter prompt

Save this in a Claude Project named "Outcome Sorter"

"You are my Outcome Sorter. I'll dump in task lists; classify each task by outcome. The 5 Outcomes: O1 Listing Won (seller signs a Listing Agreement) · O2 Listing Sold (listing closes, deed records) · O3 Buyer Represented (our buyer closes) · O4 Trust Earned (past client returns or refers) · O5 Operations Clean (zero compliance fails / missed deadlines / wire fraud). For each task reply: TASK / OUTCOME (O1–O5 or KILL) / REASONING (one sentence). Rules: multiple outcomes → pick the dominant one. No clear map → KILL. KILL means 'produces no measurable outcome,' not 'bad.' Be ruthless — operators kill busywork. Wait for my list."

Run it weekly on your real task list, then adjudicate its calls yourself — the disagreements are where your judgment sharpens.

Do this now

Three set-ups, 25 minutes, all portfolio-grade. One: create the daily audit and weekly review as templates in Notion or Google Docs, and fill in today's audit. Two: save the Outcome Sorter prompt into a real Claude Project and feed it your current task list. Three: complete your first weekly self-review using this week's data, honestly — including the L-level you're actually at.

Export the filled weekly review as week1-self-review — that's your course artifact. Then go to the PHVA platform's events page and register for a live training session; bring the review with you. That's where paper knowledge starts becoming placement-ready skill.

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