A studio by Assistant Management

The working document
for everything you manage.

Solo founders, dealmakers, creators, caregivers. Anyone responsible for a complex thing that needs to be legible to someone else.

For founders and operators — the operations manual your business already needs, ready for your first hire on day one.

SOLO FOUNDER · OPERATIONS How the business actually runs. 02 · ROLES Who does what. 03 · SOPs How the day runs. 01 02 03
2847 OAK · DEAL FILE The transaction, on paper. PHASE DD CLOSE JUN 14 EARNEST $85K 03 · MILESTONES The transaction calendar. APR 12 LOI signed APR 19 PSA executed MAY 24 DD period ends JUN 07 Financing removed JUN 14 Close
CHANNEL · CREATOR FILE The channel, the cadence, the work. "The version of me that shows up on camera is the show. Everything serves it." 03 · SEGMENT FORMATS The recurring formats. Deep dive 25 MIN · MONTHLY · LONG-FORM CORE Reaction 8 MIN · WEEKLY · QUICK-TURN FILL Q&A 12 MIN · BIWEEKLY · COMMUNITY CORE CTR 11.2% AVD 5:48 SUBS 42k
01 · Thesis

Most tools give your work a face.
This one gives it a spine.

Brand kits, landing pages, marketing surfaces — they all produce what the outside world sees. Beautiful. Necessary. And almost useless when you hire your first employee, brief a virtual assistant, hand a deal to a co-broker, or pass a client to a teammate who's never seen the file.

— The face
B

What it looks like

Logos, brand kits, landing pages. The output a customer or audience sees. Plenty of good tools for this — the prices keep falling.

+ The spine
02 · ROLES Who does what. 07 · CRISIS PLAYBOOK When things break. 01 02

How it actually runs

The working document. The SOPs. The roles. The decisions. The crisis playbook. The thing every operator wishes existed before they had to write it from memory at 2 a.m.

Same business — structured for handoff instead of marketing.

02 · Anatomy

Built from the same primitives.

Four core section types do most of the work across every template. Same primitives, different content.

Roles
Who does what. Human, virtual, agent, contract — with status chips.
01 02 03
SOPs
Step-by-step playbooks. Numbered, copyable, runnable by anyone covering for you.
DKF CART AXIOS
Diagnosis matrix
Issue → fix → verdict. Shipped, hold, cut, live. Replaces the bug-tracker dump.
01 02 03
Crisis playbook
When this breaks, do this. Pre-decided so panic doesn't make the call.

+ 17 more section types in the library

03 · The templates

Twelve starting points.

Each template is a pre-composed structure with the right sections for that kind of managed thing. Slide to browse.

FOUNDER How this actually runs. 01 02 03
01
Solo Founder
Operations manual for a single operator.
SIDE HUSTLE A lean operation. 01 02 QUIT OR SCALE? $8.4k $24k $60k
02
Side Hustle
Lean manual for a part-time business.
SERVICE Customer to cash, on paper. $X JOB DAY 01 02 03
03
Service Business
For tradespeople, freelancers, services.
E-COMMERCE Order to doorstep. CART PAY PICK SHIP VENDORS
04
E-commerce
Order-to-doorstep operations.
SAAS Releases & incidents. Stripe Billing Postgres Data Sentry Errors MRR $12.4k CHURN 3.1% UPTIME 99.94
05
SaaS
Releases, incidents, customer support.
CLIENT FILE Engagement, documented. SCOPE · BILLING · HANDOFF
06
Agency / Client
For consultants delivering to clients.
DEAL FILE LOI to close. APR 12 LOI signed APR 19 PSA executed MAY 24 DD ends JUN 14 Close
07
Real Estate Deal
A single transaction, documented.
RUN OF SHOW Every minute, accounted. 2:00 3:30 5:00 6:30 9:00 11:0
08
Event Production
Weddings, contracts, large events.
CARE FILE What someone covering needs. EMERGENCY +1·555 MEDICAL
09
Care File
For caregivers, EAs, fiduciaries.
CLASSROOM How the room runs. UNIT 1 UNIT 2 UNIT 3 CAPSTONE HOW CLASS STARTS 01 02 03
10
Classroom · Practice
Teachers, coaches, therapists.
BRAND Three things we say. PILLAR 01 PILLAR 02 PILLAR 03 VOICE · CHANNELS · CADENCE
11
Brand & Creative
Marketers, ad strategists, brand leads.
CREATOR The show, the cadence. CORE FILL CTR 11.2% SUBS 42k REV $3.2k
12
Creator Channel
YouTubers, podcasters, newsletter writers.
04 · For whom

If you're the only one who knows how this works.

Solo founder
Building toward the first hire.
The doc is what makes the first hire possible. It's the thing they'll read on day one.
Real estate agent
A deal from LOI to close.
The file every party needs but nobody assembles. The deal binder, structured.
Event producer
The whole event, on one page.
The run of show, the vendors, the crisis playbook. For when you can't be everywhere at once.
Brand strategist
The thesis, the pillars, the channels.
The single source of truth the creative team can build against. Replaces twelve scattered decks.
Content creator
A show, not just an output stream.
Show thesis, segment formats, production SOPs. So the work compounds instead of restarts.
Caregiver · EA
The file for a person you carry.
The handoff document you wish you'd had on day one. Built for the moment you can't be there.
05 · Pricing

Three ways to start.

Personal
$79 · once
One operator, one body of work.
  • All twelve templates
  • Full section library
  • Unlimited compositions
  • Download HTML, export PDF
  • Lifetime v1 updates
Get personal
Operator
$49 /month
Delivering files to clients.
  • Everything in Studio
  • Client workspaces
  • White-label exports
  • Client-branded files
  • Multi-client dashboard
  • Priority support
Talk to us
06 · Questions

Honest answers.

Answer

Is this just a Notion template?

No. Notion templates are empty pages you have to style and structure yourself. This is a composition framework that handles structure, typography, layout, and rendering — so you spend your time on content, not format. The output is one legible document, not a tree of pages nobody reads.

07 · The ask

Stop being the only one who knows how the work runs.

Build the file once. Hand it off the moment you need to. Update it on the cadence that matches your work.

Built by Assistant Management LLC · Sarasota, FL v1 · 2026