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19 workflow templates
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.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 10 outputs
Audit preparation
Before the external auditors arrive, your controller holds one audit pack: every request with its owner, date, document and status, the control evidence they will test, last year's findings and what was done, and draft answers to the questions they will ask. People approve everything before it goes.
- Starts it
- Controller
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 9 outputs
Budget-versus-actual variance commentary
Before the month's results go to management, the finance lead gets written commentary on every line that moved past the threshold: the figures, the budget owner's explanation marked confirmed or to be confirmed, a bridge from budget to actual, and the questions still open. No cause is invented.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Buyer security questionnaire answers
When a buyer sends a security questionnaire, your sales owner gets a draft answer matrix: each question beside the evidence your security owner supplied, its date, its limits and a named reviewer, with stale, partial and unverifiable answers marked.
- Starts it
- Sales owner
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Cloud spend variance bridge
When cloud or tooling costs move away from budget, the finance lead and the engineering manager get a bridge from budget to actual by service and cost owner, with usage beside each large move, the unallocated and shared costs, and the questions each side must answer.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Discount request review
Before a price below list goes to a customer, whoever approves it gets one page: the discount and what it costs in margin, every clause of your own written policy met or missed, who approves and in what order, and what the customer gives in return. A person decides; nothing is sent.
- Starts it
- Sales lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Funder report draft
Before a funder report is due, the grants manager gets a draft written to the funder's own questions, with every number tied to a record, an index of the evidence behind each statement and a list of what is still unanswered. People verify it, approve it and submit it.
- Starts it
- Grants manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Headcount plan
For a founder, people lead or finance lead preparing next year: every role and its cost by team, the new roles and backfills with their months, the fully loaded cost month by month against the budget, and what changes if revenue lands lower or higher. It plans roles and money, never decisions about named people.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Founder
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 3 outputs
Journal entry preparation
At month end, your bookkeeper hands the controller every proposed journal entry ready to review: balanced lines on accounts from your own chart, the arithmetic and the document behind each amount, whether it reverses, and who approves it. Nothing is posted until a person approves.
- Starts it
- Bookkeeper
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Learning system access review
At term end or after staff change roles, the system owner lays the learning system's user and access exports beside current staff, class assignments and the approved role matrix. Departed users, changed roles and dormant accounts come back as questions for the data owners. Nothing is changed.
- Starts it
- System owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Outside-counsel invoice questions
When a law firm’s invoice arrives, legal operations has one worksheet ready: every line set against the agreed rates, the approved matter budget and the company’s own billing guidelines, each difference written as a neutral question for the firm. Nothing is sent, paid or rejected until people decide.
- Starts it
- Legal operations manager
- Brings
- export, document
- Gets
- 10 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Product pricing options
A product owner weighing how to price or package a product gets one options brief: what each customer group uses, the willingness-to-pay evidence held with stated kept apart from observed, what each option would bill every account, the uncertainties and the tests. It recommends no price.
- Starts it
- Product owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Record sharing access matrix
When an approved access policy has to reach the CRM, the system owner lays the current sharing setup beside the proposed one, by record type and by role, internal and external. Every change is a question for its owner; inherited and platform-fixed settings are marked unknown.
- Starts it
- System owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Restricted gift rollforward
The finance lead gets a working schedule for one named restricted fund: opening balance, recorded gifts, coded expenditure and closing balance, with every unresolved difference listed from the gift agreement summary and the ledger detail. Nothing is posted.
- Starts it
- Bookkeeper
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Software subscription and vendor spend review
From a card statement or ledger export, the finance or operations lead gets every subscription on one register: what each costs a year, who owns it, what renews in the next 90 days, what looks unused, duplicated or orphaned, and the decisions to make. Nothing is cancelled or changed.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 9 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Finance manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Subscription billing exception sheet
Before a subscription billing run, or when a customer disputes a charge, the billing specialist gets a sheet tying each account's plan, quantity and invoice lines to the approved price mapping and the seat or usage records, with doubtful matches kept open.
- Starts it
- Billing specialist
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Teaching tool vendor data questions
Before a school or college adopts a teaching tool that would handle student or staff information, the privacy or procurement lead gets a scoped question pack on data flows, access, retention and subprocessors, with each supplied vendor document mapped to the questions and the gaps listed.
- Starts it
- Privacy lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 5 outputs