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Templates for the documents teams write every week

80 markdown templates for engineering, product, leadership, newsletters and more. Each one opens as a live document you can share, review with comments and suggestions, and hand to an AI agent.

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Engineering

ADR

Architecture decision record: one decision, its context and consequences

EngineerTech leadEngineering manager

Agent instructions

The charter your AI coding agents work from, project overview through review checklist

EngineerTech leadEngineering managerSRE

AI feature eval plan

How you will measure an AI feature before and after launch: the task, a quality rubric, the eval dataset, metrics, baseline vs target, human review, regression gates and a cost and latency budget

EngineerTech leadProduct managerResearcher

API spec

Endpoints, request/response shapes, errors, auth and versioning

EngineerTech lead

Bug report

Reproducible bug with expected vs actual behaviour

EngineerSRE

Code review checklist

What to check before approving a change

EngineerTech lead

Design doc

Context, goals, proposed design, alternatives and rollout for a technical change

EngineerTech leadEngineering manager

Incident postmortem

Blameless review: timeline, impact, root cause, action items

EngineerSREEngineering manager

Incident status update

Stakeholder and customer communication during an active incident: current status, impact, what we know, next update time and a running update log

SREEngineerEngineering managerCommunicationsCustomer success

Migration plan

Move data or systems safely with checkpoints and rollback

EngineerTech leadSRE

On-call handoff

What the next on-call needs to know

EngineerSRE

Prompt spec

A versioned spec for one production prompt: purpose, model and parameters, the system prompt, inputs, output contract, few-shot examples, failure modes, guardrails and history

EngineerTech leadProduct managerResearcher

Pull request description

What changed and why, the linked issue, how to test, screenshots, risk and rollback, and a reviewer checklist

EngineerTech lead

README

Project overview, setup, usage and contributing

EngineerTech lead

Release notes

What shipped, what changed, and how to upgrade

EngineerTech leadProduct manager

RFC (request for comments)

A lightweight proposal circulated for comment before a decision: summary, motivation, proposal, alternatives, drawbacks and open questions, with a comment period and decision record

EngineerTech leadEngineering managerProduct manager

Runbook

Operate a service: dashboards, alerts, and step-by-step procedures

EngineerSRE

Spike / investigation

Time-boxed research with a question, findings and recommendation

EngineerTech leadResearcher

Technical spec

Implementation-level spec: overview, goals, approach, milestones

EngineerTech lead

Product

Analytics request

Brief for a data or analytics request: the decision it informs, the exact question, metric definitions, segments, timeframe, sources, due date and output format

Product managerResearcherMarketerExecutiveOperationsAnyone

Experiment (A/B) plan

Hypothesis, variants, metrics, sample size and decision rule

Product managerResearcherEngineer

Feature brief

Short brief aligning team on a feature before design

Product managerDesignerEngineer

Launch checklist

Everything to ship a feature: eng, docs, support, marketing

Product managerManager

One-pager

A single-page pitch for an idea: problem, solution, why now

Product managerFounderExecutive

PRD / requirements doc

Problem, users, requirements, success metrics and scope for a feature

Product managerEngineerDesigner

Roadmap

Now / next / later themes with a timeline

Product managerExecutiveManager

Sprint planning

Sprint goal, team capacity, committed and stretch items, carry-over, risks and a definition of done

Product managerEngineering managerTech leadEngineer

User stories

Stories with acceptance criteria in Given/When/Then form

Product managerEngineer

Design

Design brief

Problem, audience, constraints and success criteria for a design project

DesignerProduct manager

Design critique notes

Structured feedback on a design review

DesignerProduct manager

Usability test script

Moderator script with tasks and observation notes

ResearcherDesigner

UX research plan

Research questions, method, participants and timeline

ResearcherDesignerProduct manager

Strategy & leadership

Board pack

Quarterly board meeting pre-read: metrics, decisions needed, risks, financials, asks

FounderExecutive

Competitive analysis

Compare competitors on features, pricing and positioning

Product managerMarketerExecutive

Decision memo

Frame a decision, options and a recommendation for sign-off

ExecutiveManagerFounder

OKRs

Objectives and measurable key results for a period

ExecutiveManagerProduct manager

Quarterly plan

Priorities, capacity, milestones and risks for the quarter

ManagerExecutiveProduct manager

Strategy doc

Diagnosis, guiding policy and coherent actions (Rumelt kernel)

ExecutiveFounderManager

SWOT analysis

Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

ExecutiveManagerFounder

Operations & projects

All-hands agenda

Run of show for a company all-hands: timed segments with presenters, Q&A collection, and follow-ups owed afterwards

ExecutiveFounderOperationsCommunicationsManager

Offsite agenda

Team or leadership offsite plan: goals, pre-reads, day-by-day schedule, sessions with owners, decisions to make, logistics and outcomes

ExecutiveFounderManagerEngineering managerOperations

Project kickoff

Align a new project on goals, scope, roles and cadence

ManagerProduct managerOperations

RACI matrix

Who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed

ManagerOperationsProduct manager

Retrospective

What went well, what didn't, and what we'll change

ManagerOperationsEngineerProduct manager

Risk register

Track risks with likelihood, impact, owner and mitigation

ManagerOperationsProduct manager

Security policy starter

An information security policy skeleton in the SOC 2 and ISO 27001 style, with roles, policy statements, exceptions, review cadence and sign-off

OperationsEngineering managerExecutiveFounder

Vendor evaluation

Compare vendors or tools against weighted requirements, security review and pricing, and record the decision

OperationsManagerEngineering managerExecutive

Weekly status update

Progress, next steps, risks and asks for stakeholders

ManagerProduct managerOperations

Weekly team meeting

Running agenda for the weekly team meeting: wins, metrics, priorities, blockers, decisions and action items with owners

ManagerEngineering managerTech leadProduct managerOperations

People

1:1 notes

Recurring 1:1 agenda: wins, blockers, growth, action items

ManagerEngineering managerTech lead

Hiring debrief

Structured hiring debrief: independent panel scores recorded before discussion, evidence by competency, concerns, a bias check and the hire or no hire decision

RecruiterManagerEngineering managerTech lead

Interview scorecard

Structured evaluation against role competencies

RecruiterManagerEngineering managerTech lead

Job description

Role summary, responsibilities, requirements and benefits

RecruiterManagerFounder

Onboarding plan

30/60/90 day plan for a new teammate

ManagerEngineering managerTech leadOperations

Performance review

Self and manager review against goals and values

ManagerEngineering managerTech lead

Team charter

A team's mission, scope, members and roles, ways of working, rituals, decision rights and how to reach them

ManagerEngineering managerTech leadAnyone

Newsletters

Agency client newsletter

A branded newsletter an agency writes for a client, with a clear call to action

MarketerSalesFounder

Company monthly update

What shipped, the numbers, wins and people news, ready to send as an email newsletter

FounderExecutiveCommunicationsOperations

Customer product newsletter

Release highlights, a how-to and one call to action for your customers

Product managerMarketerFounderCustomer success

Investor update

Monthly investor letter with KPIs, highlights, lowlights and asks

FounderExecutive

Weekly team digest

A short weekly roundup of decisions, links and shout-outs

ManagerEngineering managerProduct managerOperations

Sales & marketing

Account plan

Strategic plan for a key customer account

SalesCustomer successManager

Blog post outline

Angle, audience, structure and SEO for a post

MarketerAnyone

Campaign brief

Objective, audience, message, channels and budget

MarketerManager

Customer call notes

Discovery or check-in call notes with next steps

SalesCustomer success

Customer interview guide

Discovery interview script with goals, screener, core questions, probes and a synthesis table

Customer successProduct managerResearcherSales

Customer onboarding plan

B2B implementation plan with success criteria, stakeholders, milestones, risks and the handoff to steady-state success

Customer successSalesManager

Press release

Announcement in standard press-release format

MarketerFounderExecutive

QBR

Quarterly business review with a customer

Customer successSalesManager

Renewal risk review

Churn and renewal risk review with health signals, risk drivers, a save plan, an owner and a decision

Customer successSalesManagerExecutive

Sports

Head to head

Match preview built on the head-to-head record: results, recent form, key battles and a prediction

JournalistCommunications

Live blog

Minute by minute coverage of a match: timestamped updates, newest on top, published as a page that refreshes itself while you are live

JournalistCommunications

Match report

Post-match report for a cricket fixture: the result in one line, the scorecard numbers, the turning point and the quotes

JournalistCommunications

Pitch report

Pre-match pitch and conditions report: surface, weather, ground history and what it means for the toss

JournalistCommunications

Player spotlight

Profile of one player in form: the numbers this season, what changed, and what to watch next

JournalistCommunications

Personal

Daily journal

Intentions, notes and reflection for the day

Anyone

Meeting notes

Agenda, discussion, decisions and action items

AnyoneManager

Reading notes

Summary, key ideas, quotes and takeaways from a book or article

AnyoneResearcher

TODO list

Prioritized task list with today / this week / later

Anyone

Weekly planning

Review last week and plan the next

AnyoneManager

Kits: templates in the order you use them

Engineering rituals

Propose, decide, build and review: RFC, design doc, ADR, spec, PR description and review checklist.

Incident response

Runbooks and on-call handoffs before, status updates while it burns, a blameless postmortem after.

Product launch

From brief and PRD through experiment, launch checklist, release notes and the customer newsletter.

Shipping AI features

Prompt spec, eval plan, agent instructions and the experiment that proves it works.

Hiring and onboarding

Job description, interview scorecard, hiring debrief and a 30/60/90 onboarding plan.

Leadership operating rhythm

Strategy, OKRs, quarterly plan, decision memos, the board pack and the monthly company update.

Customer success

Discovery interviews, onboarding plans, call notes, account plans, QBRs and the renewal risk review.

Team rituals

The recurring meetings a team runs on: weekly team meeting, 1:1s, retros, all-hands and offsites.

Sports desk

A match day in order: the pitch report, the head-to-head preview, the live blog, the match report and the player spotlight, each fed by live data.