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26 workflow templates, 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.
- 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
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
Contract amendment trace
Before a question about a signed contract goes to counsel, the contracts manager has one dated history of the provision that matters: every signed document in order, each version quoted with its document and section, every gap marked, and a list for the lawyer to confirm. It never says which wording controls.
- Starts it
- Contracts manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Contract intake brief
When another party's agreement arrives, counsel gets a one-page intake brief: what it is, read from its titles, the parties as named, what is missing, the requester's purpose and date, and the reviewer your own routing rules name. It comments on no term; counsel decides.
- Starts it
- Contracts manager
- Brings
- notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Contract issues table for counsel
Before counsel negotiates a vendor or customer agreement, the contracts team hands over one cited issues table: every clause quoted with its section, the playbook position it meets or departs from, the playbook’s fallback wording copied beside each departure, and the approver your matrix names. Counsel decides.
- Starts it
- Contracts manager
- Brings
- notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Contract renewal and notice register
From your signed agreements and amendments, the contracts manager gets a register for counsel to confirm: each term, renewal and notice clause quoted with its section, cancel-by and send-by dates proposed only under counsel's own counting rules, and the windows sorted by proposed send-by date. Nothing is sent.
- Starts it
- Contracts manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
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
Inbound demand or claim intake record
When a demand, claim or subpoena arrives, the company's lawyer gets one intake record the same day: who sent it, what it asks, every date it states, the facts and citations it relies on, related matters, where the records are, and a question on keeping them. It rates nothing and recommends nothing.
- Starts it
- Legal operations coordinator
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 2 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Invention disclosure brief for patent counsel
Before the first call with patent counsel, the founder or engineering lead has one factual brief: the invention in the inventor's words, who contributed what and when, every outside demonstration, sale, talk or publication with its date and audience, and the records still missing. Counsel decides.
- Starts it
- Founder
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
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
IP ownership and licence question table
Before an agreement or statement of work is signed, IP counsel gets one table of the ownership, assignment, licence, background-IP and confidentiality clauses, each quoted with its section, set against the company's own IP positions and led by whether the assignment words counsel expects were found.
- Starts it
- Contracts manager
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
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
Legal hold custodian tracker
Once counsel has issued a legal hold, your legal operations lead keeps one tracker for counsel: every custodian and system in counsel’s scope, who has acknowledged and who is overdue, who has left or changed role, the refresh date counsel set, and reminders copied from counsel’s own text for a person to send.
- Starts it
- Legal operations lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 3 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
NDA check against counsel's approved positions
Before anyone signs a proposed NDA, counsel gets every clause quoted with its section and set beside the positions counsel has approved: matching, departing or not covered. Any obligation beyond confidentiality sends the whole NDA to counsel. The check never says an NDA is ready to sign.
- Starts it
- Salesperson
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Open-source licence inventory for counsel
Before a release ships or an acquirer asks, counsel and the engineering lead get every open-source package listed with its licence as found, the file and line where it was read, and the duties your own policy attaches to it. A missing, custom or conflicting licence is marked needs review, never cleared.
- Starts it
- Engineering lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
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
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