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B.O.S.S.

Your records, read back as the company.

boss playbook renders what you already wrote down — the idea, who it's for, what people told you, what you decided, who you are — into one page of sixteen chapters. Press Present and it's a deck. Nothing on it was written for the page; every block names the record it came from, and a chapter with nothing behind it renders as the question it's waiting on.

▸what it is

One page for the pitch, the proof and the company

Three things a founder keeps rewriting by hand: the deck for someone outside, the one-pager for someone busy, and the page the team is supposed to be aligned on. They drift from each other and from the work. The playbook is all three from one source — the records BOSS already made you write as you went — so they cannot disagree with each other, or with the build.

The playbook rendered for the demo venture: chapter rail on the left, the Vision chapter as boxes, Present and the cut picker in the chrome
The demo venture's playbook, exactly as boss playbook renders it. Open it.
Pitch — eight chapters Vision · Product · Customers · Problem · Market · Competition · Canvas · Business model. Each is a projection over a record that exists: the idea document, the personas, the competitive set, the sources you imported, the capital mentor's dossier. The chapter line is the first sentence of the record it renders.
Proof — five chapters Evidence · Learnings · Decisions · Risks & harms · Health. Read from the evidence records, the devlog, the decision records, the Risks cell and the newest health check. Never a quote from a real person — the ladder grade and the title line, not what they said.
Company — three chapters Team (a person record per founder, cofounder, team member and advisor, with a photo), Brand (BRAND.md's current shape, the accent and tagline as they are, a link to the design space), and Values (the Principles cell as headlines, plus how you build).
▸the deck

Present, in one of four cuts

Present turns the page into slides. The cut decides which blocks are in: the VC cut, the Story (your venture as a narrative you can hand someone), the Internal one, or Everything — each a list of block ids computed at render from the records, so a new decision is a new slide without anyone editing a deck. Remove any slide from the current cut and restore it; that memory lives in your browser, never in the records. BOSS's cut is the first draft; your delete is the last word. Export this cut writes the PDF through the print sheet.

Every block carries Copy and Slide: paste one box into a doc, or open one box as a slide by itself. The copy sheet gathers the page as plain text for the tools that want text. A view, never an app — there is nothing here to keep up to date.

▸the holes

A chapter with nothing behind it says so

A hole renders as a hole: the chapter is there, and it holds the question it is waiting on and the verb that answers it. It is never padded, because a page that looks complete over records that aren't is the most convincing wrong thing you can hand to someone. The evidence ladder sits in the chrome — how much of this is stated pain, how much observed, how much committed — so a reader can see what the page is standing on before they read a word of it.

The holes fill at your pace, through three doors, none of them a wizard. /import takes a pasted paragraph as readily as a file, folds it into the idea, then says what else it could fill — a count for People, two rivals, a tagline, a person — and writes each record only on a yes. /close notices what you said this session that a record could hold. And every chapter names the verb that fills it.

▸the sibling

Two pages, one chrome

boss design renders the design space the same way, from the same records and the same page shell — the tokens, the people, the components, the patterns — under .boss/ next to the playbook. The board (boss board) is the third view, read from each record's own status line. Three pages, generated; the records are the only thing you write.

What BOSS writes down · the whole demo venture.