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Ops Handbook for Pre-Seed Teams

Everything a 3-5 person team needs to operate cleanly: comms norms, decision rights, tools stack, recurring rituals.

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A handbook that scales from 1 to 5 without rewriting. (Full PDF linked below.)

Communication norms

  • Async by default. Default to writing.
  • Slack for ephemeral. Notion/Linear for durable.
  • Meetings only for: decisions, alignment, hard conversations.

Decision rights

  • Reversible decisions: anyone, ship and learn.
  • Two-way doors: low ceremony, document after.
  • One-way doors: written proposal, 24-hour async review, founder signs.

Tools stack (opinionated)

  • Linear for product. Notion for docs. Slack for chat. Loom for async video. Stripe for revenue. Vercel for hosting.

Rituals

  • Monday: weekly priorities.
  • Wednesday: customer pulse review.
  • Friday: 15-min retro.
  • Monthly: investor update + cap-table check.

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