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Solo Founder Operations

Run a company on your own without it running you: every hat mapped, the right work automated or outsourced, cover for when you are away, and real accountability and company.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Solo Founder Operations, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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🚀 Founding & Startups

Solo Founder Operations

Running a company alone, choosing what to automate or outsource, staying accountable and avoiding the isolation of solo founding.

  1. Inventory of every hat the solo founder wears
  2. Two-week time audit by business function
  3. Single points of failure map for a one-person company
  4. Password manager with emergency access for the company
  5. Company deadlines and renewals calendar
  6. Where-everything-lives operating manual
  7. Monthly budget for tools and outside help
  8. Choosing an outsourced bookkeeper and accountant
  9. Solo founder stop-doing list
  10. Monthly board meeting with yourself
  11. Monthly close with the outsourced bookkeeper
  12. Twice-daily customer support triage
  13. Weekly admin block for a one-person company
  14. Monthly automation health check
  15. Bench of trusted freelancers for each outsourced skill
  16. Weekly accountability partner check-in
  17. Quarterly subscription and tool spend audit
  18. Quarterly cover drill from your written procedures
  19. Weekly human contact plan against solo isolation
  20. Quarterly solo planning day away from the desk
  21. Writing procedures a stranger can follow
  22. No-code automation fundamentals
  23. Writing a delegation brief for freelancers
  24. Decision journal for deciding alone
  25. Reading your own management accounts
  26. AI assistant prompt library for repeat work
  27. Scoping and pricing freelance work fairly
  28. Automate, outsource or keep scoring for every task
  29. Hiring a virtual assistant for inbox and admin
  30. Self-serve onboarding to cut founder hours per customer
  31. Help centre that answers the top twenty questions
  32. Invoicing and payment reminders that run themselves
  33. Booking link and meeting day rules
  34. Contract templates and e-signature workflow
  35. First week fully offline as a solo founder
  36. Year-end accounts and tax filing pack
  37. Onboarding your first part-time contractor
  38. Answering the solo founder question in investor meetings
  39. Cover plan for planned medical or parental leave
  40. Non-technical solo founder working with contract developers
  41. Technical solo founder handing off marketing and sales admin
  42. Solo founder parent sick-day and school-holiday cover
  43. Running the company while travelling or working abroad
  44. Rebuilding operations after becoming the sole founder
  45. Serving customers across time zones alone
  46. Security questionnaires as a one-person company
  47. Incapacity and succession plan with a lawyer
  48. Fractional executives for finance and marketing
  49. Back office run by AI agents with human checks
  50. Trigger points for ending solo operation

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Inventory of every hat the solo founder wears

Most solo founders carry twenty or more distinct jobs, from answering refund requests to filing the annual return, and only see the ones that shout loudest. Writing every recurring job down, grouped by function, is the raw material for every later decision about what to automate, outsource or drop.

First tasks

  • Scroll the last month of calendar, inbox and bank feed and note every job they reveal
  • Group the jobs under seven functions from product to admin
  • Add a frequency and a time estimate to each job
  • Mark the jobs that only you can legally or practically do

Two-week time audit by business function

Ask a solo founder where their week goes and the answer is usually wrong by a third. Tracking two real working weeks against the functions from your hat inventory shows how many hours support, admin and context switching actually eat, and gives a baseline to measure every later change against.

First tasks

  • Pick a time tracking method and set it up before tomorrow morning
  • Log every block of work for ten working days with its function
  • Total the hours per function at the end of the second week
  • Write down the three findings that surprised you most

Single points of failure map for a one-person company

In a solo company almost everything is a single point of failure, but some failures cost an afternoon and others cost the business: a lost phone holding the only two-factor codes, a payment processor tied to a personal email, a server only you can restart. Mapping them by impact tells you which three to fix first.

First tasks

  • List every account and system the company depends on in one sheet
  • Note what stops working if you vanish for a week, for each one
  • Score likelihood and impact and sort the list
  • Fix the two highest risks that take under an hour each

Make it yours.

Install Solo Founder Operations, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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