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18 capabilities
Annual operating budget
For an owner or finance lead preparing next year: revenue and costs by month and by team, built from this year's figures and each budget owner's drivers, every assumption written down, capital purchases listed apart, the whole checked against cash, and the questions leadership has to settle.
Board meeting pack
Before each board meeting, the CEO gets a pre-read built on the one decision the board is asked to make, with every figure from the company's own reports, an agenda kept mostly for discussion and the questions directors are likely to ask. Afterwards, a record of what was decided. The CEO sends it all.
Brand strategy workshop
Give your company one answer to why it exists, who it is for and how it sounds. Over about three hours (a planning figure, not yet timed), the owner makes the six choices that define the brand from options an AI assistant drafts, signs off the rest, and leaves with the tests that check it with real buyers.
Business line investment review
For leadership with several business lines: each line set side by side on one basis (fit with strategy, finance-reviewed results, shared resources, open questions) and placed as invest, investigate or reduce commitment, for the leadership team to discuss and decide.
Business model assumptions review
Before you commit money to a new or revised business model, see it block by block with every claim marked evidenced or assumed, the riskiest assumptions ranked, and the cheapest test for each. You choose what to test; no projection or valuation is made.
Culture health check
A founder or people lead sees whether the company's stated values show up in daily work: each value written as behaviours you could watch for, read against the team's own evidence, with where practice matches, where it drifts, and two or three rituals to try. Reported by team and theme, never about a person.
Decision log
Your chief of staff keeps one register of what the leadership actually approved, across every meeting and message: each decision with who approved it, each action with one owner and a date, what is overdue, and a flag wherever a new decision clashes with an earlier one or revives a rejected idea.
Delegation brief and follow-up
Every task a manager hands over goes with a clear brief: what to deliver, in what form, by what date and time, why it matters, who will use it, what the person may decide alone and when the manager will check in. Each week, one list shows what is open, what is late and the next note to send.
Executive situation brief
Before a conversation that matters, with a key partner, a major customer or a co-founder, the executive gets one brief from the records they approve: the short version in a sentence, what is already decided and promised, what each side has said, the question to settle and the choices open. The executive decides.
Executive week-ahead calendar review
Before the week starts, the executive assistant hands the executive one brief: every clash, every journey or run of meetings with too little time, every meeting with no stated purpose or no preparation time, and proposed time for the week's priorities. Nothing is accepted, declined, moved or sent.
Investor update
Each month or quarter, the founder gets a drafted update for investors: the headline, key figures against plan and last period, cash and runway, wins, problems told plainly with what is being done, and specific asks. Every figure comes from the company's own reports. The founder approves and sends it.
Outgoing work sign-off log
Every item that needs a responsible attorney's sign-off before it leaves the firm sits in one log, in the order it has to go out: waiting, approved or returned, with the attorney's own note. Anything close to its date with no decision is flagged first. The log tracks status and never touches the legal substance.
Presentation outline and talk track
Anyone presenting to a board, a client or a conference gets a storyboard built on one message, then a spoken script for every slide, timed to the slot and true to their own speaker notes. Every fact comes from what the presenter supplied, and the presenter approves the message and the words.
Product recall customer contact plan
Once your business has issued a recall, the customer care lead gets the contact plan: affected customers from the order export, the approved notice word for word, drafts that offer only the remedies you run, and a tracker that counts a customer done only when the item is back or repaired.
Research summary brief
An executive handed a pile of reports, articles or papers gets one brief: what each source found, where the sources agree and disagree, the limits of each, and exact quotations cited to the page. Built only from the documents supplied. What it means for the business stays the reader's call.
SOP exception capture
Turn what your most experienced person does with the awkward cases into an exception register for one procedure. Once the owner approves it, every colleague handles those cases the way your best person does.
Spreadsheet check before sharing
Before a model or schedule goes to a client, a lender or a board, the sender gets one report on it: every error value, short total, buried assumption and hidden row pinned to its cell, each with a fix or a question, and a plain list of what was not checked. Nothing in the workbook is changed.
Supplier quality response check
A quality or purchasing person who has raised a defect with a supplier gets the supplier's reply set against the finding: what is answered, what is not, the evidence still to ask for, the actions proposed and what has yet to be verified. The person decides whether the answer is accepted.