@synap-core/workspace-templates 0.2.2 → 0.4.0

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  groupBy: lead-stage
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  description: "Lead pipeline kanban by stage."
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+ onboarding:
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+ goal: >
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+ Capture the real marketing motion — the campaigns running now, the channels
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+ they run on, the segments they target, and how leads flow through the
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+ pipeline — so the workspace mirrors how growth actually operates here.
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+ framing: >
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+ THE GROWTH LEAD: Act as a sharp growth-marketing lead. Anchor everything to
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+ the Foundation (audience + positioning) and the Brand (voice) so campaigns
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+ stay on-strategy and on-brand. Push for the concrete: real channels, real
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+ numbers, real segments — not "we do social." Ask where leads come from and
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+ where they stall. Be warm but relentless about specifics.
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+ expertise:
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+ starters:
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+ - >
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+ One channel to competence before the next. Spraying across email, social,
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+ paid, and events at once means all of them stay mediocre. Propose ONE
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+ primary channel to get working end-to-end (message → creative → conversion)
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+ and treat the others as experiments, not commitments.
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+ - >
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+ Growth is a chain: ICP → message → channel fit. The message that lands is
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+ the one that names the ICP's specific pain in their words, and the channel
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+ that works is where that ICP already is. If a campaign has a channel but no
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+ named segment and no sharp message, propose filling those first.
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+ - >
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+ Anchor every campaign to a pipeline metric, not a vanity one. Impressions,
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+ followers, and open rates feel good and predict nothing. Propose the campaign
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+ target as leads, qualified pipeline, or CAC — the number a founder would
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+ actually defend in a board meeting.
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+ blindSpots:
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+ - >
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+ The "spray across every channel" reflex is the #1 growth failure — it
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+ guarantees no channel reaches the volume needed to learn what works. If they
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+ list four channels for one campaign, push back: which ONE gets real budget
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+ and attention this quarter?
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+ - >
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+ Attribution is where growth stories quietly lie. If they can't say where
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+ their best leads actually come from — not where they THINK, but what the data
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+ shows — the pipeline is being optimized blind. Surface the tracking gap.
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+ - >
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+ A leaking funnel beats a full top. Founders obsess over more leads while
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+ leads pile up and stall at one pipeline stage. If a stage is a graveyard, the
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+ fix is conversion there, not more volume up top — name the stall before
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+ proposing new campaigns.
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+ bar: >
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+ Each live campaign has a named ICP segment, a sharp message that segment would
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+ recognize, one channel it's genuinely committed to, and a pipeline metric it's
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+ judged on — so a growth lead could tell at a glance what's working, what's
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+ leaking, and where the next dollar should go.
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+ collect:
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+ - profileSlug: campaign
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+ what: The campaigns live or planned right now — one per real initiative, with its channel and goal.
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+ cardinality: several
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+ keyFields: [campaign-channel, campaign-goal, campaign-status]
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+ - profileSlug: lead
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+ what: A few representative leads already in motion, placed at their true pipeline stage.
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+ cardinality: several
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+ keyFields: [lead-stage, lead-source, lead-company]
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+ - profileSlug: contact
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+ what: Key marketing contacts — the people already on the list and how they got there.
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+ cardinality: few
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+ keyFields: [contact-email, contact-source, contact-company]
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+ openingQuestions:
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+ - "Which campaigns are live right now, and what channel is each one running on?"
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+ - "Who are you targeting — which Foundation audience segment does the growth motion aim at?"
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+ - "Where do your best leads come from today, and where in the pipeline do they get stuck?"
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+ doneWhen: at least one active campaign with a channel + a few leads placed at their pipeline stage.
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+
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  # App reference — no custom app for marketing
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  app:
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  kind: stored
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  - kind: view
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  viewName: Lead Pipeline
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  pos: { x: 6, y: 0, w: 6, h: 5 }
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-
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- # Seed data
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- seedEntities:
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- - profileSlug: campaign
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- title: Product Launch
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- properties:
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- campaign-status: planning
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- campaign-channel: social
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- campaign-goal: "Generate 500 signups in the first week"
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- - profileSlug: campaign
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- title: Developer Outreach
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- properties:
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- campaign-status: planning
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- campaign-channel: email
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- campaign-goal: "Reach 1000 developers via newsletter"
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+ # Operations workspace template — the company's OPERATING SYSTEM.
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+ # The head-of-ops / chief-of-staff layer: how the business actually runs day to
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+ # day — the documented procedures (SOPs), the recurring processes (workflows),
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+ # the tool stack and vendors behind them, the metrics/SLAs that keep them
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+ # honest, and the rituals/cadences that keep everyone aligned.
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+ # Provider of the `operations` domain. Validated against types.ts at build time.
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+
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+ meta:
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+ slug: operations
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+ name: Operations
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+ description: The company's operating system — SOPs, workflows, vendors, tools, metrics, and rituals that keep the business running.
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+ icon: settings-2
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+ color: "#64748B"
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+ tags: [operations, sops, vendors, workflows]
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+ isPublic: true
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+
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+ workspace:
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+ name: Operations
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+ description: The operating layer of the company — documented procedures, recurring processes, the tool stack and vendors behind them, operational metrics, and the rituals that keep the team aligned.
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+ proposalId: operations-v1
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+ subtype: operations
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+ visibility: members
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+ workspaceType: operational
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+ capabilities:
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+ - operations.sops
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+ - operations.vendors
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+ - operations.workflows
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+ sourceRoles:
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+ operations: provider
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+
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+ profiles:
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+ - slug: sop
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+ displayName: SOP
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+ icon: book-open
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+ color: "#64748B"
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+ description: "A standard operating procedure or runbook — the documented, repeatable way to do a thing."
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+ scope: WORKSPACE
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+ properties:
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+ - slug: category
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+ label: Category
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: select
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+ enumValues: [Onboarding, Finance, People, IT, Support, Sales, Legal, Facilities, Other]
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+ - slug: sop-status
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+ label: Status
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: select
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+ enumValues: [Draft, Active, Needs Review, Deprecated]
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+ constraints: { defaultValue: Draft }
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+ - slug: owner
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+ label: Owner
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: text
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+ placeholder: Who owns this procedure?
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+ - slug: trigger
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+ label: When to run
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: textarea
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+ placeholder: What situation triggers this procedure?
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+ - slug: last-reviewed
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+ label: Last Reviewed
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+ valueType: date
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+ inputType: date
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+ - slug: steps
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+ label: Steps
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: textarea
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+ placeholder: The step-by-step procedure...
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+
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+ - slug: workflow
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+ displayName: Workflow
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+ icon: workflow
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+ color: "#0EA5E9"
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+ description: "A recurring business process — a repeatable flow with an owner, a cadence, and an input/output."
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+ scope: WORKSPACE
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+ properties:
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+ - slug: workflow-status
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+ label: Status
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: select
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+ enumValues: [Backlog, Active, Blocked, Optimizing, Retired]
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+ constraints: { defaultValue: Active }
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+ - slug: frequency
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+ label: Frequency
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: select
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+ enumValues: [Ad-hoc, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly]
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+ - slug: owner
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+ label: Owner
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: text
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+ placeholder: Process owner
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+ - slug: automation-level
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+ label: Automation
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: select
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+ enumValues: [Manual, Semi-automated, Automated]
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+ - slug: input
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+ label: Input
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: text
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+ placeholder: What kicks it off?
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+ - slug: output
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+ label: Output
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: text
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+ placeholder: What it produces
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+
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+ - slug: vendor
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+ displayName: Vendor
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+ icon: truck
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+ color: "#8B5CF6"
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+ description: "A supplier, contractor, or service provider the company pays and depends on."
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+ scope: WORKSPACE
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+ properties:
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+ - slug: vendor-category
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+ label: Category
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: select
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+ enumValues: [Software, Service, Supplier, Contractor, Agency, Other]
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+ - slug: vendor-status
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+ label: Status
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: select
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+ enumValues: [Active, Trial, Evaluating, Paused, Churned]
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+ constraints: { defaultValue: Active }
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+ - slug: owner
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+ label: Owner
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: text
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+ placeholder: Internal relationship owner
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+ - slug: monthly-cost
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+ label: "Monthly Cost (€)"
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+ valueType: number
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+ inputType: number
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+ placeholder: "0"
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+ - slug: renewal-date
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+ label: Renewal Date
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+ valueType: date
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+ inputType: date
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+ - slug: website
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+ label: Website
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: url
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+ placeholder: "https://..."
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+ - slug: notes
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+ label: Notes
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: textarea
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+
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+ - slug: tool
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+ displayName: Tool
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+ icon: wrench
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+ color: "#F59E0B"
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+ description: "A tool in the company stack — the software the team actually uses to get work done."
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+ scope: WORKSPACE
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+ properties:
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+ - slug: tool-category
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+ label: Category
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: select
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+ enumValues: [Productivity, Comms, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Dev, Design, Data, HR, Other]
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+ - slug: tool-status
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+ label: Status
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: select
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+ enumValues: [Active, Trial, Deprecated]
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+ constraints: { defaultValue: Active }
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+ - slug: owner
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+ label: Owner
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: text
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+ placeholder: Admin / owner
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+ - slug: seats
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+ label: Seats
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+ valueType: number
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+ inputType: number
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+ placeholder: "0"
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+ - slug: monthly-cost
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+ label: "Monthly Cost (€)"
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+ valueType: number
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+ inputType: number
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+ placeholder: "0"
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+ - slug: url
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+ label: URL
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: url
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+ placeholder: "https://..."
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+
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+ - slug: process-metric
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+ displayName: Metric
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+ icon: gauge
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+ color: "#10B981"
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+ description: "An operational SLA or KPI — a number the team commits to and tracks against a target."
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+ scope: WORKSPACE
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+ properties:
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+ - slug: metric-type
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+ label: Type
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: select
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+ enumValues: [SLA, KPI, Health]
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+ - slug: metric-status
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+ label: Status
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: select
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+ enumValues: [On Track, At Risk, Off Track]
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+ constraints: { defaultValue: On Track }
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+ - slug: target
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+ label: Target
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: text
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+ placeholder: e.g. < 4h, > 95%
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+ - slug: current
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+ label: Current
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: text
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+ placeholder: Latest reading
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+ - slug: cadence
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+ label: Cadence
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: select
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+ enumValues: [Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly]
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+ - slug: owner
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+ label: Owner
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: text
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+ placeholder: Who's accountable?
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+
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+ - slug: ritual
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+ displayName: Ritual
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+ icon: repeat
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+ color: "#EC4899"
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+ description: "A recurring meeting or cadence — standups, reviews, retros, planning — that keeps the team aligned."
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+ scope: WORKSPACE
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+ properties:
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+ - slug: cadence
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+ label: Cadence
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: select
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+ enumValues: [Daily, Weekly, Biweekly, Monthly, Quarterly]
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+ - slug: ritual-date
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+ label: Next Occurrence
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+ valueType: date
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+ inputType: date
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+ - slug: owner
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+ label: Facilitator
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: text
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+ placeholder: Who runs it?
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+ - slug: attendees
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+ label: Attendees
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: text
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+ placeholder: Who attends?
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+ - slug: duration-min
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+ label: Duration (min)
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+ valueType: number
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+ inputType: number
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+ placeholder: "30"
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+ - slug: agenda
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+ label: Agenda
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+ valueType: string
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+ inputType: textarea
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+ placeholder: Standing agenda...
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+
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+ views:
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+ - name: SOPs
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+ slug: sops
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+ type: table
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+ scopeProfileSlug: sop
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+ description: The documented procedures, by category and review status.
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+ defaultView: true
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+ config:
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+ visibleColumns: [category, sop-status, owner, last-reviewed]
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+ defaultSort: { field: last-reviewed, direction: asc }
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+ - name: Workflows
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+ slug: workflows
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+ type: kanban
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+ scopeProfileSlug: workflow
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+ groupBy: workflow-status
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+ description: Recurring processes on a board by status.
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+ config:
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+ groupByField: workflow-status
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+ cardFields: [frequency, owner, automation-level]
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+ - name: Vendors
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+ slug: vendors
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+ type: table
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+ scopeProfileSlug: vendor
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+ description: Suppliers and service providers, with cost, owner, and renewal.
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+ config:
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+ visibleColumns: [vendor-category, vendor-status, owner, monthly-cost, renewal-date]
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+ defaultSort: { field: monthly-cost, direction: desc }
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+ - name: Tool Stack
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+ slug: tool-stack
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+ type: table
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+ scopeProfileSlug: tool
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+ description: The software the team runs on.
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+ config:
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+ visibleColumns: [tool-category, tool-status, owner, seats, monthly-cost]
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+ defaultSort: { field: monthly-cost, direction: desc }
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+ - name: Metrics
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+ slug: metrics
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+ type: table
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+ scopeProfileSlug: process-metric
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+ description: Operational SLAs and KPIs against target.
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+ config:
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+ visibleColumns: [metric-type, metric-status, target, current, cadence, owner]
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+ - name: Rituals
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+ slug: rituals
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+ type: calendar
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+ scopeProfileSlug: ritual
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+ description: Recurring meetings and cadences on a calendar.
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+ config:
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+ dateField: ritual-date
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+ colorField: cadence
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+
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+ # Schema-level links — give the relation picker and graph domain-specific
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+ # edges from day one, not just pod defaults.
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+ entityLinks:
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+ - sourceProfileSlug: sop
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+ targetProfileSlug: workflow
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+ type: documents
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+ label: Documents
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+ - sourceProfileSlug: workflow
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+ targetProfileSlug: tool
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+ type: uses
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+ label: Uses
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+ - sourceProfileSlug: tool
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+ targetProfileSlug: vendor
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+ type: provided_by
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+ label: Provided by
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+ - sourceProfileSlug: process-metric
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+ targetProfileSlug: workflow
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+ type: measures
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+ label: Measures
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+ - sourceProfileSlug: ritual
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+ targetProfileSlug: workflow
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+ type: reviews
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+ label: Reviews
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+
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+ onboarding:
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+ goal: Capture how the company actually runs — its core SOPs, its recurring workflows, the vendors and tools behind them, and the rituals that keep the team aligned — so the workspace mirrors the real operating system, not a generic template.
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+ framing: >
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+ THE OPERATOR: Act as a seasoned head of operations / chief of staff doing an
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+ ops walkthrough. Be systems-minded and pragmatic — hunt for the procedures
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+ that live only in someone's head, the processes that run every week, the
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+ tools quietly draining budget, and the meetings that must happen. Refuse
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+ vagueness: every workflow has an owner and a cadence, every SOP has a
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+ trigger. Translate their answers into SOPs, workflows, vendors, tools, and
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+ rituals.
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+ expertise:
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+ starters:
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+ - >
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+ Don't map the whole org or every process — start with the few recurring
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+ processes that actually BREAK: the ones that cause fire drills, missed
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+ handoffs, or "who was supposed to do that?" moments. Ask what went wrong last
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+ month and reverse-engineer the workflow from the failure, not from an
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+ idealized flowchart.
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+ - >
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+ SOP the highest-frequency × highest-pain work first. A daily task that hurts
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+ every time beats a quarterly one that's annoying once. Propose that
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+ prioritization out loud — "let's document the thing you do 50 times a month
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+ before the thing you do twice a year" — instead of documenting alphabetically.
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+ - >
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+ Give every workflow a single named owner and a cadence before anything else.
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+ Refuse "the team owns it" — that means no one does. If they can't name one
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+ accountable person, that's the finding, and the workflow's real status is
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+ "at risk", not "active".
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+ blindSpots:
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+ - >
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+ A process nobody owns doesn't exist — it just hasn't failed publicly yet.
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+ Hunt for the workflows that run on habit and goodwill with no owner; those
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+ are the ones that collapse the week someone is on holiday.
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+ - >
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+ "It's all in my head" is a single point of failure, not a system. The most
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+ dangerous SOPs are the undocumented ones the founder or one key person runs
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+ from memory. Ask directly: what breaks if that person is out for two weeks? —
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+ and document those first.
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+ - >
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+ Founders confuse activity with process. A recurring meeting or a busy Slack
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+ channel isn't a workflow unless it has a defined input, a defined output, and
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+ a trigger. If a "process" has no clear input→output, it's a habit; name it as
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+ one and either give it structure or drop it.
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+ bar: >
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+ The workspace captures the handful of processes that actually run (and break)
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+ the business — each with one accountable owner, a cadence, and a clear
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+ input→output — the highest-frequency/highest-pain procedures are documented as
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+ SOPs so they survive the owner leaving, and nothing critical lives only in one
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+ person's head.
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+ collect:
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+ - profileSlug: sop
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+ what: The core documented procedures / runbooks — the repeatable ways of doing key things.
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+ cardinality: several
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+ keyFields: [title, category, owner, sop-status]
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+ - profileSlug: workflow
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+ what: The recurring processes that run the business, each with an owner and a cadence.
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+ cardinality: several
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+ keyFields: [title, workflow-status, frequency, owner]
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+ - profileSlug: vendor
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+ what: The suppliers and service providers the company pays and depends on.
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+ cardinality: few
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+ keyFields: [title, vendor-category, monthly-cost, owner]
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+ - profileSlug: tool
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+ what: The main tools in the stack the team runs on.
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+ cardinality: several
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+ keyFields: [title, tool-category, owner, monthly-cost]
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+ - profileSlug: ritual
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+ what: The recurring meetings and cadences that keep the team aligned.
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+ cardinality: few
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+ keyFields: [title, cadence, owner]
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+ openingQuestions:
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+ - "What are the procedures that live only in someone's head today — the ones you'd need to write down if that person left?"
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+ - "Which processes run on a fixed cadence — weekly, monthly — and who owns each?"
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+ - "What tools and vendors is the company paying for, and who's the owner of each?"
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+ doneWhen: A few core SOPs are documented with owners, the key recurring workflows exist with a cadence, the main vendors and tools are captured with cost, and the standing rituals are on the calendar.
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+
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+ app:
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+ kind: stored
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+ cellKey: entity-detail
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+
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+ layout:
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+ defaultView: SOPs
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+ defaultApp: null
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+ pinnedApps: [dashboard, data, intelligence]
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+ sidebarItems:
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+ - kind: view
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+ viewName: SOPs
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+ label: SOPs
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+ icon: book-open
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+ - kind: view
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+ viewName: Workflows
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+ label: Workflows
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+ icon: workflow
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+ - kind: view
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+ viewName: Vendors
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+ label: Vendors
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+ icon: truck
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+ - kind: view
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+ viewName: Tool Stack
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+ label: Tool Stack
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+ icon: wrench
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+ - kind: view
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+ viewName: Metrics
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+ label: Metrics
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+ icon: gauge
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+ - kind: view
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+ viewName: Rituals
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+ label: Rituals
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+ icon: repeat
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+ - kind: app
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+ appId: data
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+ label: All Data
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+ icon: database
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+
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+ bento:
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+ viewName: Operations Command Center
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+ blocks:
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+ - kind: widget
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+ widgetType: welcome-header
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+ pos: { x: 0, y: 0, w: 12, h: 2 }
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+ - kind: widget
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+ widgetType: entity-count
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+ pos: { x: 0, y: 2, w: 3, h: 2 }
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+ config:
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+ profileSlug: sop
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+ label: SOPs
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+ - kind: widget
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+ widgetType: entity-count
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+ pos: { x: 3, y: 2, w: 3, h: 2 }
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+ config:
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+ profileSlug: workflow
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+ label: Workflows
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+ - kind: widget
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+ widgetType: entity-count
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+ pos: { x: 6, y: 2, w: 3, h: 2 }
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+ config:
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+ profileSlug: vendor
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+ label: Vendors
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+ - kind: widget
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+ widgetType: entity-count
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+ pos: { x: 9, y: 2, w: 3, h: 2 }
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+ config:
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+ profileSlug: tool
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+ label: Tools
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+ - kind: view
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+ viewName: Workflows
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+ pos: { x: 0, y: 4, w: 8, h: 5 }
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+ - kind: view
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+ viewName: Metrics
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+ pos: { x: 8, y: 4, w: 4, h: 5 }
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+ - kind: view
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+ viewName: SOPs
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+ pos: { x: 0, y: 9, w: 6, h: 4 }
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+ - kind: view
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+ viewName: Vendors
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+ pos: { x: 6, y: 9, w: 6, h: 4 }
package/src/personal.yaml CHANGED
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  description: Saved web references.
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+ onboarding:
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+ goal: Capture the shape of the user's world — what they're working on, what they're reading and saving, and how they think — so the workspace starts grounded in who they actually are.
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+ framing: >
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+ THE KNOWLEDGE COACH: Act as a gentle, thoughtful personal-knowledge coach.
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+ You're here to understand their world, not audit it — curious, warm, never
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+ pushy. Meet them where they are: a couple of honest notes beat a perfect
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+ system. Reflect back what you hear so it feels captured, not interrogated.
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+ expertise:
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+ starters:
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+ - >
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+ Start from ONE real recurring need, not a structure. Ask "what do you keep losing
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+ track of?" — the tab you meant to read, the idea you forgot, the link you can't
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+ find again — and seed that single thing. A personal space earns trust by solving
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+ one nagging friction, then grows; it dies if it opens as an empty filing cabinet.
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+ - >
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+ Propose the 2-3 things they ACTUALLY want to track, then stop. Most people need
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+ exactly: a place for stray notes, a reading list, and a bookmark pile. Name those,
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+ seed one item in each, and resist adding projects/tags/statuses they didn't ask
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+ for. The default here is deliberately lean — under-structure on purpose.
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+ - >
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+ Mirror their own capture habit instead of imposing one. Ask what a jotted thought
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+ usually looks like for them — a link, a one-liner, a voice-note-to-self — and map
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+ the workspace to that shape. If they dump links, lead with bookmarks; if they
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+ write, lead with notes. Match reality; don't teach them a new ritual.
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+ blindSpots:
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+ - >
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+ The productivity-system graveyard: elaborate setups — nested tags, six statuses,
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+ color-coded areas — built with enthusiasm on day one and abandoned by day seven.
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+ The failure mode is over-structuring, not under-structuring. Every field you add
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+ is a field they must maintain; keep it embarrassingly simple and let it grow later.
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+ - >
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+ People try to design the "perfect system" before they have any content, and stall.
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+ Structure should emerge FROM real notes, not precede them. If they're deliberating
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+ over categories with an empty workspace, cut it short — capture three real things
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+ first, and let the shape reveal itself.
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+ - >
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+ A reading list nobody triages just becomes guilt. People pile "to-read" articles
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+ and never mark anything read or dropped, so the list rots into a backlog they
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+ avoid. Give it a lightweight status (to-read / reading / read / archived) and
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+ normalize archiving unread — a shrinking list is a healthy one.
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+ bar: >
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+ A GREAT result is TWO OR THREE things they genuinely care about, each with a real
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+ item already in it — not an empty scaffold. It should feel like a lean personal
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+ shelf they'll actually open tomorrow, with nothing to maintain that they didn't ask
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+ for. If it looks like a "productivity system", it's already too much.
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+ collect:
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+ - profileSlug: project
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+ what: The handful of things they're actively working on or care about right now.
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+ cardinality: few
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+ keyFields: [name, status]
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+ - profileSlug: note
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+ what: A few ideas, thoughts, or things on their mind — however rough.
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+ cardinality: several
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+ keyFields: [name, tags]
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+ - profileSlug: article
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+ what: What they're reading or mean to read — their reading list.
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+ cardinality: several
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+ keyFields: [name, readStatus]
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+ - profileSlug: bookmark
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+ what: Web references and links worth keeping.
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+ cardinality: several
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+ keyFields: [name, url]
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+ openingQuestions:
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+ - "What are you working on or thinking about most these days?"
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+ - "What have you been reading, saving, or meaning to get to?"
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+ - "When you jot something down, what does it usually look like — a link, a note, a task?"
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+ doneWhen: at least one project or note captured, plus one thing they're reading or saving.
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  # No dedicated app — lands on the dashboard/feed (the universal data surface).
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- seedEntities:
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- - profileSlug: note
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- title: Welcome to your second brain
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- properties:
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- tags: [getting-started]