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25 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
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
Implementation blocker brief
When a customer's setup milestone slips, the implementation lead gets one brief: the missing inputs, the unresolved access and data questions and the dependencies behind the delay, each with its source and an owner, plus points to raise with the customer.
- Starts it
- Implementation lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 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
Launch checklist
Whoever owns a launch date gets one dated checklist for the weeks before, the day itself and the weeks after, with an owner on every line. Each announcement is written out so the approver sees exactly what goes out, to whom and from where before saying go. Nothing is announced by the assistant.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Meeting agenda, notes and follow-ups
Whoever runs the meeting walks in with an agenda where every topic has an outcome and a time, and walks out with a one-page record: what was decided, who owns each action and by when, and what is still open. Nothing reaches anyone until that person has read it and sends it.
- Starts it
- Team lead
- Brings
- notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Missed milestone client reply
When a client challenges a delay, a deliverable or an earlier commitment, the account director gets a draft reply and an internal action note that keep confirmed facts apart from proposed recovery steps and the decisions still needed. Nothing is sent.
- Starts it
- Account director
- Brings
- export, notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 2 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
Program outcome map
Before an evaluation, the program and evaluation leads get one map linking each activity to the outcome it is meant to serve, with proposed measures, data sources, assumptions and the questions the evidence cannot yet answer. It claims no impact.
- Starts it
- Program lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 8 outputs
Project handover readiness check
When a finished deliverable is ready for the team that will run it, the project manager brings one checklist against that team's own requirements: acceptance evidence, instructions, access, training, support owners and open items. The receiving owner accepts or names the conditions still to meet.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Project intake and capacity review
When a new initiative is proposed, the portfolio owner sees it scored on the business's own criteria beside the projects already committed, the delivery days it would use month by month, and what it would crowd out or push later. The owner accepts, defers or rejects it.
- Starts it
- Portfolio owner
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Project lessons review
When a phase or a project ends, the project manager gets one blameless review: whether it achieved what it was for, how scope, schedule and budget moved and why, whether the success measures were the right ones, and practice changes for the team to choose, each with an owner and a follow-up date.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 8 outputs
Project scope baseline
A project manager turns an approved brief into a draft scope baseline: the deliverables, what is excluded, the acceptance criteria for each deliverable, the constraints and the open questions for the sponsor. Nothing implied counts as scope until the sponsor says so.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 7 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
Reviewer comments into one resolution list
The owner of a document that came back from several reviewers gets one checklist: every proposed edit and comment, grouped by section, with clashes between reviewers set side by side. Every item stays open until the owner decides it, and the document itself is never touched.
- Starts it
- Document owner
- Brings
- export, notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 7 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