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23 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
Bid or no-bid and RFP response plan
Before anyone starts on a response, your bid manager sees every requirement in the request checked against your own evidence, your bid criteria tested and the buyer questions ready. A named person decides whether to bid; then a dated plan says who does what by when.
- Starts it
- Bid manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Deliverable issue completeness check
As a calculation, report or drawing package nears issue, the quality reviewer or document controller gets a checklist: missing review records, revisions that disagree between the index, the register and the title block, and citations of out-of-date calculations. Issue stays with the engineers.
- Starts it
- Quality reviewer
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- People lead
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Estimate basis pack
An estimator pricing a job from drawings, takeoffs and supplier quotes gets one worksheet: every figure with its quantity source, rate source and date beside it, each exclusion listed and every gap already written as a scope question. The estimator verifies; the bid lead decides the figure.
- Starts it
- Estimator
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Executive assistant
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Executive assistant
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Incident investigation and corrective actions
After an injury, near miss or property damage, the site, operations or safety manager gets the investigation written up from the evidence: a timeline, the immediate and underlying causes, actions with owners and dates, and a register that follows each action until a check shows it worked.
- Starts it
- Site manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 8 outputs
Leadership meeting rhythm
Your chief executive gets a proposed calendar of leadership forums and written reports, built from today's meetings and the decisions left waiting: each forum with its purpose, inputs, attendees, frequency and one decision owner, and the hours it gives back. The chief executive chooses; no calendar is changed.
- Starts it
- Chief executive
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Nonconformity record draft
A quality lead or supervisor who has spotted something wrong gets a draft record: the observation set against the stated requirement, the affected work counted from the register, and the containment options. The quality owner decides every call.
- Starts it
- Quality lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 1 output
Obsolete copy check
The quality lead gets the master document list set against the copies found at each point of use: which copies are out of date, which withdrawn documents are still held, and what proof of withdrawal exists. The document owner withdraws and replaces copies; nothing is changed.
- Starts it
- Document controller
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Presenter
- Brings
- notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Process map and bottleneck review
Map one process step by step: who does each step, how long work waits and how long it takes, where it is handed over and where it gets sent back. Then find the one step that caps how much gets finished, and what to try there first. The owner decides what changes.
- Starts it
- Operations lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Project experience sheet
For one finished project and one proposal, turn the firm's approved project records into a one-page experience sheet: the firm's role, the scope it performed, partners' work kept apart, and the record behind each line. Names, images and permissions still to confirm are listed for sign-off.
- Starts it
- Proposal lead
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Punch list consolidation
The site manager gets the punch list for the next closeout walk as one list grouped by location and trade, with repeated entries merged, photographs attached and a proposed follow-up date for each open item. Nothing is assigned, closed or accepted.
- Starts it
- Site manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Repeat incident pattern review
A safety lead with a year of incident records and earlier actions gets them compared in groups: confirmed causes, what was done before, and where incidents recur, with questions for the team. A competent person judges what the pattern means.
- Starts it
- Investigation lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Analyst
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 7 outputs
RFI review package
The project engineer gets one packet for each request for information: the register entry, the question word for word, the drawing revisions and specification extracts it touches, earlier responses, and a numbered list of what is unresolved. No answer is proposed.
- Starts it
- Project engineer
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 8 outputs
Site observation follow-up
After a site visit, the visiting engineer and the project manager get one observation report: each field note beside its location, source photograph, drawing revision and any earlier register entry, a proposed follow-up owner, and the questions still open. It assesses no condition.
- Starts it
- Visiting engineer
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 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
Submittal register review
The project engineer gets one register of every required submittal: what has arrived, the review status as recorded, the documents still missing and the long-lead items at risk against the date each order must be placed. Nothing is routed, accepted or ordered.
- Starts it
- Project engineer
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Weekly owner business brief
Each Monday the owner gets about one page built from the exports they supply: cash, last week's sales against the week before, pipeline movement, the week's commitments and a watch list, with one item to look at first. Every figure names its source, and every missing export is named.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 8 outputs