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The Owner Down Kit

Surgery, a funeral, a family emergency: two to six weeks away from a business that only runs because it is all in your head.

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What’s inside

  • Seven parts: the action guide with the reason for every step, the checklists in the sequence that works, scripts and letters, the worksheets, the decision tools for the calls only you can make, resources and next steps, and the vendor and renewal register.
  • The forty-eight-hour runbook, the version you can finish in one sitting and hand to a stand-in: who does what, what can wait, and what must never stop.
  • Scripts and letters as separate, editable Word files, and an access map that names who holds what.
  • Client and team notices, the pause or continue decision for every commitment, and a re-entry plan so coming back is not a second crisis.
  • Four files: a start-here PDF, US Letter and A4 zips, and the editable Word documents plus the spreadsheet with the formulas already in, for Excel and Google Sheets. No app, no subscription, no account to create.

Who this is for

The forty-eight-hour runbook comes first, written before you need it rather than during the week you cannot work. A rough one finished today beats a perfect one never started. No passwords go in the file, deliberately. It records who holds which access, and the boundaries a stand-in must not cross.

There are no dates in the kit, so there is nothing to fall behind. If you started, stopped, or already got something wrong, chapter one finds the stage you are actually at and starts there.