The Handoff File: If You're Out for a Month, What Happens Tuesday?

The appendix. The family emergency. Or the good version — the two-week vacation you keep not taking. When you're the only index of where everything lives, an absence turns a working shop into a scavenger hunt, and someone ends up calling a hospital room about a vendor password.

How it works

• The File — money, access, vendors, obligations, the weekly rhythm, and the call sheet, each line with a named backup and a briefed? column that keeps you honest. Ships FILLED as a working example, not forty empty boxes
• The Readiness Score — twelve Y/N questions. The sample scores 7, and its five N's cluster exactly where every shop's do: payroll, pricing, the rhythm, the trusted person, and the test
• The Rules — no passwords EVER (pointers to your password manager only); print it, seal it, tell one person; every line needs hands, not just a location; and the long-weekend fire drill — everything that breaks is a missing line, everything that runs is a backup doing their job. Also: it's a four-day vacation. That's rather the point
• The gap math — an unprepared two-week absence: ~$4,800. Prepared: ~$600. The file is worth $4,200 per event and costs one honest afternoon

Built for

Every owner whose business fits in their head: trades · salons · shops · practices · solo operators. Continuity file, not estate plan — your attorney handles the if-worse version.

What you get

One .xlsx file, four tabs, instant download. Excel, Google Sheets, Apple Numbers, LibreOffice. No macros, no subscription.