You came from the Notion Marketplace

You duplicated the template. Here’s what the paid bundle adds.

The free Marketplace version gives you the structure — a working Notion workspace with the databases connected. The paid bundle adds the work that turns a duplicated workspace into a running operating system.

If the free template is doing the job, keep using it — that’s what it’s there for. This page is for owners who want the system oriented, fitted, or built around their actual operation.

Notion Marketplace · What you have now

The bare template

The full Notion structure, duplicated into your workspace. Databases connected, views built, demo data included. Yours to keep and use indefinitely.

What you’ve already done

Duplicating the template was real work. Most owners never get that far.

If you’ve loaded any real records into it — a live client, an actual transaction, a Monday morning opening the dashboard — you’ve done the part most owners never do. The moving pieces of the business are in one place where they can be seen.

That holds real value. A business with its operating information in one place is already ahead of one running on memory and habit. The template earns its keep on the day you stop reconstructing the same answer for the fourth time.

Where the free template stops being enough

A template gives you the shelves and lets you put everything in its place. What it stays quiet on is which box is the problem — which single constraint is holding the business back while the rest runs fine.

That reading takes a diagnostic. The paid bundles below are how you get that reading done with you, on your specific business.

What changes when you upgrade

The Notion structure stays. The work around it gets done.

Notion Marketplace · What you have

The free template

The structure, duplicated into your Notion workspace.

  • Full template structure and database connections
  • Starter records and demo data
  • One-click duplication, yours to keep indefinitely
Free · on the Marketplace
brandnewcolors.com · What the bundle adds

The template plus the work

The same structure, plus the human work to make it run.

  • Guided onboarding session with Jacob
  • Diagnostic read of how your specific business runs
  • Template fitted to your stages, naming, and records
  • Optional full build done alongside you
From $99 · three rungs below
Three rungs

Pick the depth of work that matches where you are.

Every paid bundle follows the same three-rung structure. The template doesn’t change between rungs — the amount of Jacob’s work alongside you does. Each rung credits in full toward the next.

The Template
The template plus a guided onboarding session — you drive the work, with Jacob walking the architecture before you start.
$99 · one-time
Lifetime updates. Credits in full toward either higher rung.
  • The complete template, duplicated into your workspace
  • 60–75 minute onboarding session
  • Architecture walkthrough and safe-customization guidance
  • Recording or written notes to keep
Pick a template
Most upgrade here
Guided Start
Everything in The Template, plus a written Business Nervous System read of your specific operation — primary constraint named in one sentence.
$999 · one-time
Delivered in two to three weeks.
  • Everything in The Template
  • 90-minute discovery session
  • Written BNS report — all five functions scored
  • Primary constraint named in one sentence
  • Template pre-configured to your business
  • Team orientation and 30-day check-in
Pick a template
Fitted Workspace
The full engagement — books current, knowledge seeded, automations wired, and your team handed a business that runs without you in the middle.
$3,500 · one-time
Scoped per engagement. 90-day support included.
  • Everything in Guided Start
  • Books brought current to the month
  • Knowledge layer built — SOPs, pricing, key contacts
  • Two recurring workflows automated
  • Up to three team handoff sessions
  • 90-day operating support with monthly check-ins
Talk it through
The other five templates

Built the same way, from different businesses.

If your operation is closer to one of these than the template you duplicated, the right move may be a different starting shape.

Maker · craft business

Wood Business

Furniture, milling, turning, custom commissions. Orders, shop projects, materials, customers, pricing, and sales channels — six sections.

See it →
Jewish community operations

Shalom Desk

Synagogues, day schools, and Jewish community organizations. Households, lifecycle events, programs, donations, clergy scheduling, building use, pastoral care.

See it →
Owner-led operations

Business Operating System

Service businesses and professional firms. Strategy, sales, delivery, finance, marketing, operations, team, and knowledge in one workspace.

See it →
Regulated retail

High Risk Retail Ops

CBD, vape, alcohol, firearms. Compliance & licensing, inventory controls, vendors, SOPs & training, incident log, and audit prep.

See it →
Dispatch & fleet

Private Transport

Black-car, executive transport, private dispatch. Bookings, clients, riders, vehicles, drivers, invoices, maintenance, compliance, reports.

See it →
Property operations

Rental Ops

Landlords running 5 to 100 units. Units, tenants, leases, rent, maintenance, vendors, renewals, and owner visibility alongside your PM software.

See it →
When the template isn’t going to be enough

If the friction is structural, the diagnostic comes before the system.

A template gives you the shelves. What stays quiet is which box holds the problem — which single constraint is governing the rest of the business while the surface continues to look fine.

The Business Nervous System report reads five operating functions, rates each one, names the single primary constraint in one sentence, and lays out the structural moves specific enough to execute in 30 days.

Sensing
How the business takes in what is happening around it and inside it.
Signaling
How information moves between the people who need it.
Processing
How inputs become decisions and delivered work.
Deciding
Where choices get made, by whom, on what authority.
Regulating
How the business holds quality and corrects itself over time.
Questions from Marketplace users

Asked after duplicating the free template.

Is the paid template different from the free one on the Marketplace?
The Notion structure is identical. What you pay for is the work around it — the onboarding session, the diagnostic read, or the full build, depending on rung. You pay for the help around the file.
I’ve already loaded my data into the free version. Do I start over?
The work translates. In Rung 02 and Rung 03, Jacob works with the data you’ve already loaded — the onboarding and fitting happens in your existing workspace. The time you spent loading records carries forward.
How do I know which rung I need?
The Template at $99 if the template fits and you want orientation. Guided Start at $999 if the template is close but the business needs reading. Fitted Workspace at $3,500 if you want the operating layer built alongside you. The 20-minute fit call names which rung is actually right if none of those is clear.
What if the template clearly isn’t the right starting point?
That gap is itself information. When no template recognizes the operation, the right starting point is the Operating Model Read — a structural diagnosis of how the business actually runs, with the primary constraint named before any system is built.
Where does checkout happen?
On each template’s own page — for example, /templates/business-operating-system. You’ll see the three rungs, the full section list, and an embedded checkout for whichever rung you pick.
Start here

You organized the business. Now read it.

The free template put the operating information in one place. The paid bundle reads it, fits it, or builds it with you. Take the rung that matches the work in front of you.