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Playbook · Beginner · 2h 30m
Launch email and social plan: playbook
Announce a store or a product line with a sequence that builds interest, launches, and follows through without discount pressure.
- Launch week orders from an audience that was told what to expect.
- Step 1: Tease with the problem
- Step 2: Launch with the products
Steps 5Deliverables 3
Playbook · Beginner · 3h
Catalogue setup that scales: playbook
Set up product data, categories and images so adding the hundredth product is as clean as the first.
- A catalogue structure that needs no rework at a hundred products.
- Step 1: Design the category tree from buyer questions
- Step 2: Write the product data template
Steps 5Deliverables 3
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Assistant integration patterns cheat sheet
The recurring patterns for putting a model into a workflow, and when each fits. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Patterns
- Guardrails
- Metrics
Entries 16Any assistant
Checklist · Beginner · 10 min
AI automation go-live checklist
What must be true before an assistant-driven automation runs on real work.
- Assistant automations fail quietly and confidently. This list makes the failure visible before it costs anything.
- ☐ The step the assistant performs is a transformation, not a decision or side effect
- ☐ Inputs are redacted of personal data
Items 10Any assistant
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Prompt maintenance
How to keep a library of production prompts working as models, inputs and policies change.
- A prompt that worked in March drifts by June: the model updated, the inputs changed shape, a policy sentence was reworded. This guide is the maintenance routine that keeps a prompt library trustworthy.
- Version prompts like code
- Keep a fixed test set
Any assistant
Guide · Beginner · 10 min
Where assistants belong in a business process
A way to decide which steps of a process an assistant should draft, which it should decide, and which it should never touch.
- Assistants are good at drafting and sorting and poor at deciding and promising. This guide gives a rule for placing them in a process so the speed is real and the risk is contained.
- Three kinds of steps
- The review that makes it safe
Any assistant
Playbook · Beginner · 2h
Sales research assistant rollout: playbook
Give a sales team an assistant workflow for prospect research and first emails, with the guardrails that keep it honest.
- Every first email built on a sourced observation, with research time halved.
- Step 1: Write the research prompt
- Step 2: Set the source rule
Steps 5Deliverables 3Any assistant
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
SaaS metrics cheat sheet
The definitions of the metrics every SaaS reports, so two people compute the same number. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Revenue
- Retention
- Acquisition
Entries 16
Checklist · Beginner · 10 min
SaaS launch checklist
The items that must be true before the first paying customer is invited.
- A launch checklist is the difference between a first customer and a first refund. These items are the minimum.
- ☐ Sign-in, reset and verification tested from a real inbox
- ☐ Billing tested with a real card in test mode and one real charge
Items 10
Guide · Beginner · 12 min
Pricing a small SaaS
A method for setting a first price and a plan structure without guessing.
- Pricing is a decision you can revise, but a first price set by guessing anchors everything after it. This guide gives a method: value from the customer's alternative, a simple structure, and a rule for when to change.
- Start from the alternative
- Two plans, one difference
Guide · Beginner · 15 min
Choosing a SaaS stack you can maintain alone
How to choose the framework, database and hosting for a small SaaS on the basis of maintenance, not novelty.
- The stack that ships a SaaS is the one you can debug at midnight. This guide sets out the questions that matter for a small team choosing a framework, a database and hosting, and the answers that hold up two years in.
- Framework: the one you already know
- Database: Postgres unless you can say why not

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