Most owner-led businesses break at everything around the work itself.
Brand New Colors reads how your business actually runs, names the structural problem underneath the scramble, and puts the whole operation into one workspace your team can open without asking you first.
An operating practice run by Jacob Sager. Six paid Notion templates built from real businesses, three support rungs per template, and a structural diagnostic for the businesses that don’t fit a template yet.
The templates
Six paid Notion templates, each built from a real owner-led business in its category. Each ships with an onboarding session and two deeper rungs above it.
The diagnostic read
A structural read of how the business senses, signals, processes, decides, and regulates — with the single primary constraint named in one sentence, as a written report.
The build
Books current, knowledge seeded, automations wired, and a team handoff that leaves the business legible whether or not you’re in the building.
The work, held together.
Brand New Colors operates on one conviction: the structure should outlive the person who built it. The pieces of work below make that possible. They are sold separately, and they reinforce each other.
The templates
Six paid Notion templates, each built from a real owner-led business. Each ships with onboarding and two deeper rungs — so the structure arrives ready to use and can be fitted to your operation.
The diagnostic read
A structural read of how the business senses, signals, processes, decides, and regulates — with the single primary constraint named in one sentence. Delivered as a written Business Nervous System report.
The build
Jacob building the operating layer alongside you. Books current, knowledge seeded, automations wired, and a team handoff that leaves the business legible whether or not you’re in the building.
Six operating shapes, each built from a real business.
Pick the one that recognizes the shape of your operation. Each template page covers the section list, fit criteria, and embedded checkout for all three rungs — starting at $99.
Wood Business
For the maker who is also the business — furniture, milling, turning, firewood, or custom commissions. Six sections covering orders, shop projects, materials, customers, pricing, and sales channels.
Shalom Desk
For synagogues, day schools, and Jewish community organizations — households, lifecycle events, programs, donations, clergy scheduling, building use, and pastoral care.
Business Operating System
For service businesses and professional firms — strategy, sales, delivery, finance, marketing, operations, team, and knowledge in one connected workspace.
High Risk Retail Ops
For CBD, vape, alcohol, firearms, and adjacent — compliance & licensing, inventory controls, vendors, SOPs & training, incident log, and audit prep as a working habit.
Private Transport
For black-car, executive transport, and private dispatch operators — bookings, clients, riders, vehicles, drivers, invoices, maintenance, compliance, and weekly reconciliation.
Rental Ops
For landlords running 5 to 100 units — units, tenants, leases, rent, maintenance, vendors, renewals, and owner visibility alongside whatever PM software you use.
Each template also has a free, unsupported version on the Notion Marketplace. The paid bundles add onboarding and the option to have the business read or built alongside you. See the full catalog →
Three engagements. Each one complete on its own.
The Blueprint is the first rung — a paid template bundle, or a custom workspace built from scratch when no template fits. The work climbs from there for businesses that need more: a full build, or ongoing operating support. Each rung credits in full toward the next.
The Blueprint
A paid template bundle with onboarding, or a custom Notion workspace built from scratch when no template fits. The structure ships ready to use and can be fitted to your operation — delivered with an orientation call and a workspace brief.
See the Blueprint →The Foundation
The full engagement — books current, workspace deployed, Business Nervous System report delivered, and a compliance calendar alongside it.
See the Foundation →Operating Core
Ongoing operating support after the Foundation — quarterly reads, system maintenance, and AI orchestration alongside the team.
See Operating Core →An operating practice run by one person who reads the business carefully.
Jacob Sager
Brand New Colors is Jacob Sager’s operating practice — built on a close reading of how owner-led businesses actually break. The breakage usually shows up at everything surrounding the work itself.
The templates came from sitting with real businesses, following the work end to end, and encoding what was genuinely there. The conviction is direct: the structure should outlive the person who built it.
A business that depends on its owner to function has a ceiling. The work of this practice is to make the operating layer legible, so the owner becomes optional to its daily running.
Honest entry points.
Most businesses know roughly where they sit before the conversation begins. Each path below is real and complete on its own.
Get a template
One of the six recognizes your operation. Pick the rung that matches the help you want — onboarding at $99, with the read and full build above that. Each rung credits toward the next.
Browse templates →Start with the Blueprint or Foundation
No template quite recognizes your operation, or the business needs to be understood before any system is built. The Blueprint starts at $99. The Foundation reads the whole business for $2,500–7,500.
Read about the diagnostic →Book the fit call
Twenty minutes, scoped to your business. Jacob reads what you describe and answers plainly on which path fits. The call ends with a clear recommendation either way.
Book a 20-minute fit callThe business is already telling you something. Read what it’s saying.
Six templates, the full ladder above them, and one twenty-minute call that names where you actually sit. Take the rung that matches the work in front of you.