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33 spreadsheets, documents, decks and starter kits for founders and marketing leads. Each one arrives by email and opens in the tool you already use.

21 spreadsheets, 8 documents, 2 code kits, 1 slide deck, 1 email course.

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  3. Open it where you work

    Excel or Google Sheets, Word or Google Docs, PowerPoint or Google Slides. The code kits run on your own machine.

Plan and budget

5 templates. Set the plan, size the spend and decide what to fund next.

Run the numbers with the free Money and spend tools.

  1. Start with this one

    The Startup Marketing Plan

    Excel + Google Sheets

    A fill-in Excel workbook (works in Google Sheets) that turns scattered tactics into a measurable 90-day plan — funnel & unit economics, positioning, a channel scorecard, a roadmap, and a budget allocator.

    Get the template

  2. The Marketing Budget Planner

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Size, allocate, track and forecast your marketing spend — with AAJ's stage bands, a CAC ceiling from your own unit economics, an automatic expense tracker, ROI verdicts, and a new-ARR forecast.

    Get the planner

  3. The MMM-Lite Starter Kit

    Python + Templates

    A ready-to-run media-mix model, the data schema, an incrementality-test template, and monthly decision rules — where does the next $1,000 work hardest?

    Get the kit

  4. The Pricing Page Teardown & Price-Test Log

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Score your pricing page and three competitors on 21 checks, then test a price only when your traffic can answer the question.

    Get the workbook

  5. The Diagnose, Design, Execute Email Course

    Email course

    Ten short lessons over three weeks, from the one number that matters to a plan you can measure.

    Start the course

Positioning and research

5 templates. Know who to serve, what they compare you with and what to say.

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  1. Start with this one

    The Positioning & Messaging Workbook

    Excel + Google Sheets

    From "what do we actually do?" to a positioning statement your whole team can say out loud — competitive alternatives, differentiator tests, a messaging house, audience variants and copy blocks with live word counters.

    Get the workbook

  2. The Segment Scorecard

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Score up to eight market segments on six weighted criteria, with the evidence and confidence behind every score, then rank them and commit to the first market to win.

    Get the scorecard

  3. The Competitor Research Grid

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Profile every alternative buyers consider, including workarounds and doing nothing, with a source and date on each entry, and turn it into where you win and your investor competition slide.

    Get the grid

  4. The Customer Interview Kit

    Word + Excel

    Recruit and screen the right buyers, run a 30-minute interview about the last time, code every note, and see which problems are patterns and when to stop. Word guide plus a coding workbook.

    Get the kit

  5. The Brand Voice Guide

    Word + Google Docs

    Voice rules specific enough to check against - plus the block your AI tools read, so the rules can actually be enforced.

    Get the guide

Pipeline and sales

6 templates. Score accounts and leads, run the first call and forecast the number.

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  1. Start with this one

    The Sales Pipeline & Forecast Tracker

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Will you hit the number? A weighted forecast, coverage math from your real win rate, the gap in dollars — and the lever to pull, named in plain words.

    Get the tracker

  2. The ICP & Target Account Scorecard

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Turn your ICP into weighted signals, score every account 0–100, and tier A/B/C — with fit-vs-intent scoring, disqualifiers, and a calibration tab so your team works the winnable deals first.

    Get the scorecard

  3. The Lead Scoring and SLA Sheet

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Score every lead on fit and behavior, set your MQL threshold, and write a marketing–sales SLA with response times and a weekly tracker.

    Get the sheet

  4. The Discovery Call Guide

    Word document

    Run a 30-minute first sales call about the buyer's problem: preparation, a timed agenda, a question bank with AI-product questions, AAJ's seven-check qualification rule and a note sheet.

    Get the guide

  5. The Sales Process Workbook

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Write sales stages a deal can fail, score first calls on seven checks, map the buying committee with role presets for AI, SaaS, schools and clinics, and see where deals stall from your own dates.

    Get the workbook

  6. The Security Questionnaire Answer Library

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Log every security questionnaire, keep one approved answer per question with its evidence and owner, track subprocessors and changes, and reply inside a time you set.

    Get the library

Campaigns and channels

8 templates. Brief, launch and test campaigns, and keep channel work on a schedule.

The steps behind it are in the Go-to-market and demand playbooks.

  1. Start with this one

    The Campaign Brief

    Word + Google Docs

    Decide the one number, the one audience and belief, and how you will judge the campaign - before any money is spent.

    Get the brief

  2. The Launch Plan Checklist

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Set one date and 40 launch tasks schedule themselves across six phases — with a readiness gate before you commit and a live Go/No-Go verdict.

    Get the checklist

  3. The Paid Audience Spec Builder

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Turn one persona into LinkedIn, Meta, Google and Microsoft Ads targeting, check each audience clears the platform's own minimum, and check your budget can finish a test before you spend.

    Get the builder

  4. The Paid Media Test Log

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Log every paid test before it starts with its hypothesis, baseline and read-out date, flag tests read early, and see what share of decided budget led to a roll-out.

    Get the log

  5. The Webinar Run-of-Show & Follow-Up Planner

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Plan the session and the follow-up together: a dated countdown, a timed run-of-show, and three follow-up messages.

    Get the planner

  6. The PR Pitch & Media Tracker

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Pitch stories, not announcements: a story bank, a reporter list, a pitch writer and a log that says when to stop.

    Get the tracker

  7. The Content Calendar & Repurposing Tracker

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Plan, publish and repurpose in one workbook — pillar strategy, a monthly editorial calendar, a repurposing tracker that turns one hero asset into ten, and a performance log.

    Get the tracker

  8. The Case Study Kit

    Word + Google Docs

    Turn a customer result into proof you can publish - the permission to use it, the evidence that makes it believable, and the write-up.

    Get the kit

Measurement and retention

6 templates. Track what happens, report it to the board and keep the customers you won.

Run the numbers with the free Measurement tools.

  1. Start with this one

    The Marketing KPI Board Report

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Turn a period of raw numbers into board-ready KPIs — CAC, payback, LTV:CAC, pipeline efficiency and attainment — each with a trend, a sourced reference line where one exists, and a headline that writes itself.

    Get the report

  2. The Board Marketing Slide Pack

    PowerPoint + Google Slides

    Twelve board slides that lead with the answer: the number against plan, what it cost, what you learned and what you need.

    Get the slide pack

  3. The Tracking Plan and UTM Builder

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Plan your GA4 events and key events, set a UTM convention that fits GA4's channel rules, build tagged links and keep a link log your whole team uses.

    Get the builder

  4. The Retention & NRR Workbook

    Excel + Google Sheets

    Turn a period of revenue movement into NRR, GRR, churn and quick ratio — each with a plain-English read — plus a cohort view, a churn breakdown, and an LTV sizer.

    Get the workbook

  5. The Lifecycle Email Audit

    Excel + Google Sheets

    List every automated email you send, see the marketing load each audience gets in a week, check each marketing sequence for its unsubscribe and consent basics, and find the sequence to build next.

    Get the audit

  6. The AI Visibility Starter Kit

    Node script + Templates

    A runnable audit that scores any page for AI citation readiness, the citation prompt set, schema templates, and the decision rules — can ChatGPT actually read your site?

    Get the kit

Team, AI and the rules

3 templates. Hire the first marketer, set how the team uses AI and check the rules before anything goes live.

The steps behind it are in the AI search and AI in marketing playbooks.

  1. Start with this one

    The First Marketing Hire Kit

    Word document

    Write the job down before you interview, test every finalist the same way, and decide on evidence: role scorecard, paid take-home, interview questions and a first-90-days plan.

    Get the kit

  2. The AI Tool Policy for Marketing

    Word + Google Docs

    A one-page policy your team can adopt this week - approved tools, what never goes into a prompt, and the review gate before anything publishes.

    Get the policy

  3. The Marketing Compliance Checklist

    Word document

    Nine rule sets to check before a campaign, email sequence or AI feature goes live, from CAN-SPAM and Gmail's sender rules to FTC endorsements and EU AI Act disclosure, each with the regulator's own page.

    Get the checklist

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