Studio · by Assistant Management

For everything you're the only one who knows how to manage.

A structured working document for solo founders, dealmakers, creators, caregivers, and anyone responsible for a complex thing that needs to be legible to someone else.

Built forThe work you're carrying alone
OutputOne legible document
Statusv1 · shipping now
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 completely useless when you hire your first employee, brief a virtual assistant, train an AI agent, hand a deal to a co-broker, or pass a client to a teammate who's never seen the file.

What's missing is the document that lives in the middle. The one that says: here's how this works. Here's who does what. Here's the playbook when things break. Here's what someone covering for you would need to know.

— The face

What it looks like

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

+ The spine

How it actually runs

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

You don't need a prettier face. You need a spine that holds the work up when you're not in the room.

02 · For whom

If you're the only person who knows how this works, this is for you.

The unifying trait isn't industry or size. It's a moment:

Solo founder
Building toward the first hire. The doc is what makes the first hire possible.
Operations manager
Documenting how things actually work versus how the org chart says they work.
Fractional operator
Delivering systems to clients. One file per client. Replaces the consultancy deck nobody reads.
Real estate agent
Managing a deal from LOI to close. The file every party needs but nobody assembles.
Event producer
Wedding planner, contractor, production lead. The minute-by-minute run of show plus the vendors, the crisis playbook, the handoff.
Brand & ad strategist
The brand thesis, the audience, the pillars, the channel mix. The single source of truth the creative team can build against.
Content creator
YouTuber, podcaster, newsletter writer. The show thesis, the formats, the production SOPs, the sponsor list — so the work compounds.
Teacher · coach · therapist
The classroom or practice file that holds the year together and the substitute folder that makes you replaceable for a week.
Family caregiver · EA · fiduciary
The care file for a person whose well-being and logistics you carry. The handoff document you wish you'd had on day one.
Owner preparing to sell
Buyers always ask "where's the operations manual?" Most sellers don't have one. This is one.
Anyone stepping away
Sabbatical, parental leave, illness. The doc keeps the work moving while you're not in the room.
03 · The templates

Twelve starting points. Pick the one that fits your work.

Every template is a pre-composed structure with the right sections in the right order for that kind of managed thing. Replace the bracketed placeholders with your real content and you have a working document.

01
Solo Founder
Full operations manual for a single operator.
02
Side Hustle
Lean manual for a part-time business.
03
Service Business
For tradespeople, freelancers, services.
04
E-commerce
Order-to-doorstep operations.
05
SaaS
Releases, incidents, customer support.
06
Agency / Client
For consultants delivering manuals to clients.
07
Real Estate Deal
A single transaction, documented LOI to close.
08
Event Production
Weddings, contracts, productions, large events.
09
Care File
For caregivers, EAs, fiduciaries.
10
Classroom · Practice
Teachers, coaches, therapists.
11
Brand & Creative
Marketers, ad strategists, brand leads.
12
Creator Channel
YouTubers, podcasters, newsletter writers.
04 · The section library

Or compose your own from the section library.

Don't see your work in the templates? Build your own from the section library. Every template above is just a curated combination of these.

Cover
Headline and lead that frames the doc.
Director's Cut
The "why this exists" pull-quote.
Thesis
The core argument the doc proves.
Roles
Who does what — human, virtual, agent, contract.
SOPs
Step-by-step playbooks for recurring tasks.
Stack & Tools
Software and who has access.
Access
Where keys live and who can reach them.
Design Theme
Brand identity panel.
Preflight
What must be true before shipping.
Flows
Diagnosis matrix — issue, fix, verdict.
Milestones
Timeline of done, pending, cut.
Metrics
KPI grid with deltas.
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Business Model
Revenue, pricing, unit economics.
Vendors
Who you pay and on what terms.
Audience
Who you serve, who you don't.
Cadence
Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly.
Crisis Playbook
What to do when X breaks.
Integrity
Risks, IP, unknowns.
Decisions
Decisions and why they were made.
Handoff
What someone covering for you needs.
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Fineprint
Footer meta — dates, version, owners.
05 · How it works

Four steps. An afternoon, not a quarter.

01 · Start
Pick a template from the twelve above, or start from blank. Templates are pre-composed structures, not filled-in content. Yours stays yours.
02 · Compose
Keep, remove, or reorder sections until the structure fits your work. Most docs end up with eight to twelve sections.
03 · Fill
Pour your content into each section. Write it directly, paste from existing notes, or hand it to an AI to draft from your rough material. The styling is handled.
04 · Hand off
Publish to a private link. Or download HTML and host anywhere. Or export to PDF. Send to a hire, a VA, an agent, a client, a buyer, future-you.
06 · Pricing

Three ways in.

Personal for one operator with one work-thing to document. Studio for anyone with more than one to maintain. Operator for consultants delivering files to clients. No public directory — your documents are private by default.

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

The honest answers.

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 the content, not the format. The output is also a single legible document, not a tree of pages nobody reads.

Will my document be public?

Never by default. Studio and Operator plans publish to private links you control. Personal plans don't publish at all — you download HTML or PDF and host wherever you want.

Can I use this with AI?

Yes, and most users will. The section structure is designed so you can hand any AI your rough notes plus a section name and get drafted content back. The styling is already handled, so the AI doesn't have to make design decisions and you don't have to fix them.

My work doesn't fit any of the twelve templates.

Then start from blank and compose from the section library. The library has every section type used in any of the twelve templates. Most uncommon use cases turn out to be combinations of the same primitives.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. Monthly plans cancel at the end of the billing cycle. Your hosted docs export to standalone HTML on the way out, so nothing is held hostage.

08 · The ask

Stop being the only person 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.

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