Resources
Resources. Use what's useful.
Templates, scripts, and worksheets I've pulled out of actual engagements. Free, not gated, no email capture. Copy, adapt, ship.
Mutual NDA (template)
A plain-English mutual non-disclosure template. Both parties protect each other's confidential information for two years post-disclosure. Adapt to your jurisdiction; review with counsel before signing.
Marga Haus engagement NDA
The NDA I sign with every engagement, pre-populated with Marga Haus's details. Mutual, two years post-engagement, Australian jurisdiction. Review, sign, return.
Monthly investor update template
One page, sent on the first Monday of the month. Three lines investors actually read. Copy, fill in, send.
Customer interview script — 5 questions
Five questions to run before you ship. Surfaces cognitive bridge capacity — how much your user will mentally complete your product when it is not yet complete.
Points of parity vs difference — audit worksheet
A three-column worksheet to separate table-stakes features from your actual business. Most pre-seed roadmaps are 80% left column and 20% right column — the audit makes the ratio visible.
Co-founder state-of-the-union — quarterly prompts
Ninety minutes. No laptops. A cafe neither of you works from. Same five prompts every quarter. The maintenance pattern co-founders use to survive year two.
18-month runway planner
A monthly cash forecast with three scenarios and four trigger thresholds. Tells you what to do this quarter, not just how many months you have left.
Kill-criteria template
The conditions, agreed in advance, that mean we stop. Decide them while the bet still feels promising, when the costs of being wrong are still cheap.
Decision log — entry template
A six-field format for capturing decisions when you make them. Two minutes per entry. The compounding payoff arrives in month four, when you can read what you used to think.
Quarterly schlep inventory
The unsexy work you've been avoiding because it's annoying, not because it's wrong. Five prompts, a scoring rubric, an assigned-and-dated column. Run it once a quarter to surface what the strategy doc cannot see.
First-hire role definition matrix
Define the job from the gap, not the person. Seven rows, one page. The matrix that would have stopped most of the bad early hires you have heard about, including the ones the founders still defend.
Weekly cadence template
A predictable week is a debugging tool. When something feels off, the cadence shows you where. Standing meetings, async updates, the monthly and quarterly tethers. One page. Hold it for a quarter before changing it.