Steve Harlow

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    Steve Harlow is Vice President of Engineering at Opus Inspection, where he leads a 125-person engineering organization delivering vehicle emissions and safety testing programs. His career spans over 30 years of software, project management, and IT leadership, including roles at Amazon's Kindle Store, Universal Avionics, Misys Healthcare, and Mister Carwash. At Opus, he has led large-scale AWS modernization efforts, an enterprise-wide AI adoption program, and post-merger technology integration in a heavily regulated industry. He is the author of The Foreign Mind, which examines AI leadership through the lens of Orson Scott Card's Enderverse. Based in Tucson, Steve writes and speaks about how engineering teams move from individual heroics to repeatable, AI-assisted delivery. He has held his PMP certification since 2004.

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    Joined Oct 2026

    Skills by Steve Harlow (17)

    Incident Postmortem with Evidence Trail

    by Steve Harlow

    $5

    A blameless draft postmortem where every timeline entry cites its log, alert, or message, and every action item traces to a cause.

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    Annual Operating Plan Builder

    by Steve Harlow

    $9

    Turn strategic priorities, prior-year results, and board guidance into a reconciled annual operating plan with owners, scorecards, and contingencies.

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    Succession Plan Builder

    by Steve Harlow

    $9

    Turn org charts and talent assessments into scored critical roles, readiness-tiered successor pipelines, and emergency succession protocols.

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    Corporate Strategy Narrative

    by Steve Harlow

    $9

    Turn an approved strategic plan into one core narrative and consistent versions for employees, investors, customers, and partners.

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    Board Governance Pack

    by Steve Harlow

    $9

    Draft board and committee charters, board packages, minutes, and a governance calendar from your own governance facts, ready for counsel review.

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    Crisis Communication Plan Builder

    by Steve Harlow

    $9

    Build a crisis playbook from your real risks and people: severity levels, decision rights, holding statements, and stakeholder templates.

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    Organizational Design Analysis

    by Steve Harlow

    $9

    Turn an org chart, a problem list, and a strategy into structural options, a recommended design, and a 90-day transition plan.

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    Strategic Planning Facilitator

    by Steve Harlow

    $9

    Turn company context and open strategic questions into explicit choices, trade-offs, 3-5 owned priorities, and an offsite plan.

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    Executive Compensation Analysis

    by Steve Harlow

    $9

    Turn your executive pay data and benchmark sources into a comp philosophy, salary bands, equity guidelines, and an internal equity review.

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    M&A Due Diligence Synthesis

    by Steve Harlow

    $9

    Combine financial, legal, commercial, technical, and HR diligence findings into one investment committee decision package.

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    Executive Decision Record

    by Steve Harlow

    $9

    Turn meeting notes or an email thread into a tiered, audit-ready record of what was decided, by whom, why, and what was rejected.

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    Document Summarizer (Role Aware)

    by Steve Harlow

    Free

    Long report, policy, or contract in; an executive summary, key points, and implications for your role out, with section references.

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    Research Synthesis Brief

    by Steve Harlow

    Free

    Many sources in; one brief showing themes, where sources agree, where they conflict, and what none of them answer.

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    Quality Control Checklist Builder

    by Steve Harlow

    Free

    Describe a process and what has gone wrong; get a pass/fail QC checklist where every check traces to a real failure.

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    Data Cleanup with Change Log

    by Steve Harlow

    Free

    Messy CSV or spreadsheet paste in; an analysis-ready table plus a log of every transformation made.

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    Weekly Status Report

    by Steve Harlow

    Free

    Turn a week of scattered notes, emails, and task exports into a one-page report with severity-rated blockers.

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    Meeting Notes to Owned Actions

    by Steve Harlow

    Free

    Messy meeting notes in; a forwardable summary, an owner/deadline table, and per-owner follow-up drafts out.

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