Operating kits for engineering leaders

Run your org like you've done it before.

Field-tested templates, systems, and the judgment a seasoned CTO would hand you — for board reporting, incident & on-call, and technical due diligence. Built by a practitioner, not a template farm.

Written by a working CTO. Every kit carries real operating judgment. Not another blank template. Filled examples, scoring, and the "how to run it." 30-day guarantee. If it doesn't save you hours, get your money back.

The kits

Each one is a complete operating system for a job engineering leaders keep re-inventing — with the expert layer that free templates never include.

Reporting

Board & Exec Reporting Kit

Report upward with credibility. The metrics that matter, the narrative that lands, and the traps that quietly cost you standing.

  • Monthly & quarterly templates
  • Filled board-update example
  • Eng → business translation guide
  • Vanity-metric kill list
$59–79
Reliability

Incident & On-Call Ops Kit

Stand up incident response and on-call that actually works — one integrated system, not a lone postmortem doc.

  • Postmortem + severity matrix
  • On-call rotation & policy
  • Internal + customer comms templates
  • The blameless-retro playbook
$49–69
Diligence

Technical Due Diligence System

For founders raising or selling, and investors assessing. The checklist plus the judgment: scoring, red-flag interpretation, and a report you can hand over.

  • Scored diligence checklist
  • Red-flag interpretation guide
  • Data-room request list
  • Report-output template
$79–99
Operating system

Engineering Leadership Operating Cadence

Run your org on a real rhythm: quarterly priorities, a weekly scorecard, an issues discipline, and a leadership meeting that actually moves things. Plugs into the operating system your company already uses.

  • One-page eng direction
  • Weekly engineering scorecard
  • Quarterly priorities ("rocks") tracker
  • Issues list + solving discipline
  • Weekly leadership meeting agenda
$89–119
Best value

The CTO Field Kit — complete bundle

All four kits plus bonus assets. Everything you need to run the org, report up, hold reliability, and pass diligence — the full operating library.

$286 $229
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Why these aren't just templates

Free checklists are everywhere. What they don't give you is judgment — what to do with what you find. That's the whole product.

01

Judgment, not blanks

Filled examples, scoring rubrics, and interpretation guides — the "what good looks like" that only comes from having done it.

02

Transparent method

Every kit publishes the framework it runs on. You see exactly how the thinking works before you buy — no black box, no personality cult.

03

Written by a practitioner

Authored and reviewed by a working CTO. Specific, opinionated, and current — not scraped or spun.

30-day, no-questions guarantee. If a kit doesn't save you real time on a real deliverable, reply to your receipt and we'll refund you in full.

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