← Back to Tool Shed
The Tool Shed: Our First Run

The Tool Shed: Our First Run

Tiago Santana
Tiago SantanaManaging Director, Gardenpatch
February 1, 2026|1 min read|
Share

Quick Answer

A short note on how we built the first Gardenpatch blog workflow and what ships next.

Get the week's best growth reads, free

Six growth disciplines, one Tuesday email. Join The Growth Spurt.

Why a blog from a product studio?

Gardenpatch builds tools. Twenty-two of them, to be precise. Each one designed to turn a specific kind of intent into a specific kind of outcome.

But tools without context are just objects in a drawer. The Tool Shed is where we share the context: how we think about growth, what we've learned building products, and the practical notes that make the difference between a plan and a result.

Run This, Don't Just Read It

Playbooks for operators in the agent era

Six $27 playbooks — Marketing, Sales, Operations, Service, Tech, People — rewritten for leaders whose jobs got rewritten when agents joined their teams. Exercises, scoring, action plans, interactive portal.

✓ 27 interactive modules✓ 70 to 87-page PDF you download and keep✓ Specialist coach optional, $99/mo

What ships next

We're starting simple. Short posts. Real examples. No fluff.

  • Launch stories from individual Gardenpatch apps
  • Growth playbooks we actually use
  • Technical deep-dives on our stack
  • Case studies with real numbers

If you want these delivered to your inbox, subscribe to the newsletter. We'll keep it short and useful.

Tiago Santana

About the Author

Tiago Santana

Founder of Gardenpatch and The Cooling Co. Tiago has spent fifteen years operating and advising companies. He writes about running marketing, sales, operations, service, technology, and people-and-culture in the agent era — when half the team is agents and most 2019 playbooks no longer apply.

The Growth Spurt — Free Weekly

Get the week's sharpest growth reads every Tuesday

Tiago Santana has spent fifteen years operating and advising companies. Every Tuesday, The Growth Spurt brings you the reads worth your time across sales, marketing, service, people, technology, and operations, with a short note on the pattern worth acting on. No fluff, unsubscribe any time.

No spam. Unsubscribe in one click.

Turn insights into action

Our playbooks give you the exercises, frameworks, and scoring templates to implement what you just read. $27 each, or every coach and playbook for $499/mo.

Browse Playbooks →

Want to talk it through? Ask Mary, the growth coach, free.