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122 workflow templates, showing 49 to 72
Internal change announcement
One decided change, announced well: managers briefed first, a message for each group in the right order, talking points, and the questions people will ask, answered only from the decision or marked open. Every message is a draft that a person approves and sends.
- Starts it
- Internal communications lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
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.
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.
Job description
A hiring manager’s rough notes become a job description the right people want to answer: why the role exists, the work itself, and only the must-haves that are real. Your approved pay and employer wording go in untouched, and nothing is posted until the hiring manager and the people lead approve it.
- Starts it
- Hiring manager
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 2 outputs
Job posting and sourcing plan
For one approved role, the hiring manager gets a plan for where to post and where to look: every channel on the company's own list ordered by the signal it should give for that kind of role, a week-by-week schedule inside the budget, and what to count on each channel. Nothing is posted or paid until a person approves.
- Starts it
- Hiring manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Job readiness packet
Before an order goes to the floor, the production or quality lead gets one packet: each requirement matched to its approved drawing, specification or inspection plan, with conflicting revisions, gaps and material shortfalls listed. The owners decide; nothing is approved or released.
- Starts it
- Production planner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 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
Lapsed-customer win-back
Once a month, the owner or account manager sees which regular customers have gone far longer than usual without ordering, ranked by what each bought in their last active year, with open complaints set aside for a call and a short note drafted for the rest, using only approved offers. A person approves every note.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 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
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.
Missed dock window recovery brief
The dispatch supervisor gets one brief when a truck misses its dock appointment and the reports disagree: each stated arrival time, the receiving cutoff, the appointment record and the questions that need a decision. It contacts no one and books nothing.
- Starts it
- Dispatch supervisor
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 8 outputs
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.
Newsletter roundup draft
The newsletter editor hands over the stories picked for this send and gets a draft digest grouped by beat, with a short summary, source line and link for each approved story. Duplicates, corrected stories and incomplete sources are flagged for the editor, who approves any send.
- Starts it
- Newsletter editor
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 2 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
Objection answers and sales one-pager
Walk into the call with an answer for every objection you expect, each with its honest limit and the proof behind it, and one page to leave behind. Everything is built from the facts you supply, so nothing on the page is a claim you cannot stand behind.
- Starts it
- Salesperson
- Brings
- notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 5 outputs
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
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.
Operations KPI scorecard
Once a month the operations manager gets one red-amber-green page for the ten or fewer measures that run the operation: each value worked out from your own exports, its trend, what moved and why in the owner's words, and the action agreed for every red. You set the measures and decide the actions.
- Starts it
- Operations manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Order size comparison
When a supplier offers a bigger discounted order, the inventory planner gets each quantity costed the same way: yearly cost, cash tied up, months of cover and storage fit. The planner chooses the quantity; nothing is ordered.
- Starts it
- Inventory planner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Packaging artwork handoff check
Before packaging artwork goes to print, the packaging owner gets a checklist that matches each file to the approved product facts, pack sizes, variants and printer specifications, with version conflicts, missing files and missing approvals listed. It writes and judges no label claim.
- Starts it
- Packaging owner
- Brings
- export
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Payroll preparation and timesheet review
Before each payroll run, the owner gets one sheet built from the timesheet and roster exports: hours by person and type, every missing punch and odd entry raised as a question, and an estimated total. Nothing is keyed in, submitted or paid until a person approves.
- Starts it
- Payroll clerk
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Pilot build readiness brief
Before a prototype or pilot build, the build lead gets one brief: part shortages, revision conflicts and open actions set against the team’s own build checklist, with allocated parts kept apart from received ones. People confirm; nothing is released.
- Starts it
- Build lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Policy answers from the handbook
Staff questions about leave, hours, expenses and conduct get answers that quote your own handbook, name the section, and say plainly where the handbook is silent. Anything about one person's own entitlement goes to HR, and no reply leaves until a person has read it.
- Starts it
- Office manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Premortem before a decision
Before your team commits to a plan that is hard to undo, such as a move, a launch or a new system, a short workshop pictures it a few months on, already failed. The record ranks the reasons, turns each top risk into a check, a warning sign and an owner, and leaves the go decision with the owner.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs