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60 capabilities, showing 1 to 24
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.
Business insurance renewal review
Before the business insurance renews, the owner gets one pack: every policy with insurer, limits, deductibles, premium and dates; renewal terms beside expiring ones, every change marked; what changed in the business; claims; and questions for the broker. The broker and the owner decide all cover.
Business trip plan
The assistant hands the traveller one plan for one business trip: dates and nights fixed from the brief, travel and hotel options with prices and the day each was checked, a day-by-day timetable around the meetings, the cost against travel policy and the bookings still to make. Nothing is booked or paid.
Candidate outreach drafting
For each person a recruiter or founder has already chosen to approach about an approved role: a first message and two follow-ups, each personal line traced to a public work source the recruiter supplied, do-not-contact names and opt-outs honoured, and a reply log. The recruiter sends every message.
Client-status update preparation
Every client gets an accurate status update on schedule, drafted from the notes and the task list, with confirmed dates kept apart from estimates and the client’s open decisions in plain view.
Contractor safety prequalification
For a named job, the operations, facilities or site manager gets a safety questionnaire scaled to the risk of the work, then a record of the contractor's answers scored only on the evidence supplied, with every gap, the conditions that close it and a review date. A competent person decides.
Cost of poor quality worksheet
An owner or operations lead who senses that rework, scrap and returns are costly gets one worksheet: the failure costs already on record, sorted by category, with estimates, gaps and unresolved allocations listed. The owner decides what to fix first.
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.
Customer case study
With a customer who has agreed to help, prepare the interview, then turn their words and the figures they supply into a case study in a short and a long version. Every quotation and number is listed for the customer to approve in writing, and nothing is published or named before they do.
Customer feedback themes
Each month your support lead sees what customers keep telling you: tickets, disputes, reviews and survey comments grouped into themes with counts and quotations, the three issues most worth fixing with a proposed fix and owner, and a note for customers once a fix ships. A person decides every fix.
Deal close plan
Your account executive holds one late-stage deal on two pages: the buyer's case for buying now, counted from the buyer's own figures, and a dated plan of every step to signature with its owner on each side. The seller decides what the buyer sees; nothing reaches the sales system without approval.
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.
Emergency drill brief
Before a fire, evacuation or other drill, the site or office manager gets one brief: the scenario the responsible person has approved, who does what, what each observer records, and the questions for the debrief. It writes no emergency plan.
Employee health plan comparison
For an owner or people lead at renewal: the broker's health plan options next to each other, with premiums split between company and employee, deductibles, out-of-pocket limits, network notes, the cost to the company and to a typical employee at low, middle and high use, and questions for the broker.
Ergonomic review inputs
For a supervisor preparing for an ergonomics assessor or a worker's complaint about a task: a task observation record of each step's movements, durations, loads and measurements as supplied, the measurements still missing, and what the people who do the task said.
Event plan
Whoever owns one event, a talk, a dinner, a webinar or a stand, gets one plan: the goal and target, who should be in the room, every step before, on and after the day with a date and an owner, and how each conversation is followed up. Nothing is booked, paid or sent by the assistant.
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.
Hiring pipeline status report
Each week your people lead or founder sees every open role on one page: applications at each stage, days open against the target, roles running late, pass-through between stages, which sources lead to interviews, and every blocker with its owner. It counts; it never assesses a candidate.
Inbox triage
The owner, or the assistant who keeps their inbox, starts the day knowing what needs a reply today, what can wait and until when, and what belongs to someone else, with a draft or a forwarding note for each. Nothing is sent, archived, deleted or moved, and no mailbox login is needed.
Interview plan and scorecard
Before the first interview, the hiring manager and every interviewer share one plan: the criteria the role needs, the same questions in the same order for every candidate, and a blank scorecard each person fills in alone. It rates no one. People make every decision about a candidate.
Interview process review after a hiring round
After a hiring round closes, the recruiting lead gets a review of the interview process: questions that gave no usable evidence, competencies nobody covered, inconsistent rubric use, and revisions to approve before the next search. It reviews the process only; no candidate is assessed.
Interview scheduling and candidate confirmation
For candidates your team has already chosen to interview, the recruiting coordinator gets one scheduling sheet that lines up each candidate's offered times, in their own time zone, with the interviewers' free time, plus a ready confirmation or availability request for each. A person sends every message and invitation.