What if this is the hourwhen the business stopsliving entirely in your head?

I am building Orabuena for the solopreneur who wants the help, but refuses to give away the decision.

Néstor Pabón, founder of Orabuena

Here is the thing: the problem is not simply that you have too many tasks.

You are serving clients, making decisions, keeping promises, following up, and trying to remember what still needs your attention. The client promise is in one email. The decision is buried in a meeting. The follow-up is competing with the work you need to deliver today.

The problem is that you have to stop and reconstruct the business before you can continue running it. What did I promise? What did I approve? Who owns the next step? Did the result I was waiting for actually happen?

Promise note

What did I promise?

Approval question

What did I approve?

Next action

What should happen next?

Verified result

Did it actually happen?

What Orabuena is meant to help you do.

Orabuena gives consequential work one dependable place to land.

That means helping you:

  • See the commitments and decisions that need your attention.
  • Keep the reason, next step, and expected result together.
  • Prepare useful work without pretending that preparation is approval.
  • Know exactly what was authorized—and what was not.
  • Receive enough evidence to verify that the intended result actually happened.
Human authority

I want the help. I do not want to give away the decision.

That distinction is central to Orabuena. Work may be prepared before you approve it. An action may be completed without producing the result you intended. A checked box is not evidence. Orabuena should help you remain in control and show you what actually happened.

The office, made visible.

This is what Orabuena is being built to do.

You should not have to open six systems and reconstruct yesterday before you can decide what today requires. Orabuena gathers the work that carries a consequence, explains why it needs you, and keeps preparation separate from permission.

The interface below is an illustrative product vision. Founding customers will help us test and improve it through real work.

Monday morning

Good morning, Néstor.

Everything else can wait

Your attention brief

Three things need you. Here is why.

Orabuena has separated decisions from updates, and updates from noise.

Promise due today

Send Marisol the revised scope

You committed to send it after Friday’s call. The exact revision is prepared from the meeting notes and her follow-up email.

Source: Friday client call · expected outcome: accepted scope
Decision required

Approve the contractor’s next step

The revised page is ready. The contractor is waiting for your decision before publishing anything.

Prepared is not approved · no public action has occurred
Outcome returned

The renewal notice reached the client

Sent Saturday, delivered at 9:14 a.m., opened at 9:42 a.m. Acceptance is still waiting.

Evidence attached · delivery is not acceptance

Exact approval

Revision 4 · Marisol scope · send by email

One promise. No missing middle.

Follow consequential work all the way home.

A task list can tell you that something was checked. Orabuena is designed to remember what was actually promised, preserve the decision, and bring the result back with evidence.

  1. 1
    Notice

    A promise, risk, or waiting decision rises from the systems where the work already happens.

  2. 2
    Clarify

    The source, owner, reason, expected result, and next review point stay together.

  3. 3
    Decide

    You see what requires judgment and what can safely remain in preparation.

  4. 4
    Authorize

    Your approval applies to an exact action, version, destination, and scope.

  5. 5
    Reconcile

    The result returns as evidence: sent, delivered, accepted, completed, or still unresolved.

A calmer operating day.

Less reconstruction. Better decisions.

Orabuena does not promise to remove the work only you can do. It is meant to protect that work from everything you should not have to remember, chase, or rebuild first.

Begin with attention

Your brief explains what changed, what is waiting, and which three items deserve you.

Approve without ambiguity

Prepared work arrives with its source, exact version, destination, and consequence.

Let follow-up stay visible

Client and contractor commitments remain present without becoming another mental checklist.

Close on evidence

You leave knowing what happened, what did not, and what tomorrow still needs.

One executive office. Three operating realities.

Choose the office your business needs.

These are proposed prices for Founding conversations. If you are selected, you will see the current plan details, prices, and terms before deciding whether to subscribe.

Orabuena Solo

One principal business that needs clarity and dependable follow-through.

$39/ month
or $390 yearly
Founding 20$19.50/month
  • Morning attention brief
  • Commitments and decision history
  • Preparation and approval queue
  • Follow-up and outcome receipts
  • One principal business context
Apply for Solo

Orabuena Portfolio

One owner operating several businesses, brands, or entities.

$129/ month
or $1,290 yearly
Founding 20$64.50/month
  • Everything in Office
  • Up to five separated business contexts
  • Distinct rules, memory, and integrations
  • One cross-venture attention brief
  • Portfolio-level conflicts and reconciliation
Apply for Portfolio

Every plan keeps consequential action under human authority and returns evidence of what happened. The Founding price is 50% of the applicable Standard price while the qualifying subscription remains continuously active. One shared pool of twenty Founding customers applies across all eligible plans.

The Founding 20

Help refine a real vision—not invent one for us.

We have a clear view of the private executive office we intend to build. Founding customers will bring consequential work from their own businesses, show us where the model holds or breaks, and influence what becomes dependable first.

Use it in real work.
Bring the promises, approvals, and follow-up that already carry consequences.

Tell us the truth.
Favorable feedback is never required. What fails is as important as what helps.

Keep the decision.
Your authority remains central while we learn how much work can be safely prepared around it.

Not ready to apply?

Bring us one piece of work that keeps returning to your head.

A research conversation begins with your actual operating burden—not a sales presentation. We will examine where context disappears, which decisions must remain yours, and what evidence would let you trust the result.

Book a research conversation

Building in public. For the long run.

I keep a public journal of what I am learning, what I am building, and why certain decisions get made. You are welcome to read along, challenge my thinking, and help keep this work honest.

Sunrise over a quiet landscape
A new hour beginning

Your good hour has arrived.

If you are ready for the business to feel calmer, more deliberate, and more yours again, I would be honored to learn from you.