If I'm Not Here Tomorrow: The Owner's Continuity File

Which customer is touchy. Where the trailer key hides. How payroll actually gets run. If a hospital stay took you out tomorrow, the people who love you would be grieving and guessing — and a business that could have survived a month without you would quietly die in three weeks.

Two hours of writing fixes it.

What's inside (9 pages, editable Word + printable PDF)

• The first phone calls — the quarterback-and-backup-operator model: one person steadies the family, one steadies the crew
• Access, without secrets — where every key, code and account lives (never a password on paper; the file points at your password manager's emergency access instead)
• The week-one playbook — day by day: what to tell the crew, the exact customer script, the schedule triage, and the rule that steadies everything — payroll runs on time
• The money — accounts and signers, payroll written as a recipe, the recurring-bills table
• The business itself — keep, sell or wind down, in your own words, decided while it's a calm question; who would buy it
• Papers and policies — ten documents, where each lives, and every "no" turned into an appointment
• The two-hour drill — hand the file to your people on a quiet Monday and say nothing; every question they ask is a hole, and most owners find three to five. That's the drill working.

Built for

Owner-operators and solo tradespeople · family businesses · anyone whose spouse has said "I wouldn't even know where to start" · anyone who is the only bank signer.

What you get

One .docx (edit in Word or Google Docs) + one PDF (print and hand-write), instant download. No subscription. An operations dossier, not a legal document — it points at your will, powers of attorney and operating agreement, and tells you loudly if they don't exist yet.