The 1-Person Business AI Operations Manual

Solopreneurs spend an estimated 35–45% of their working hours on non-revenue-generating overhead: chasing late invoices, reviewing contract boilerplate, parsing meeting notes, and answering basic emails. This manual attacks that drag with 50 modular, deterministic SOPs.

01. Introduction: The Solo Founder’s Administrative Debt

Establishes the administrative drag problem and the cost it imposes on a one-person business before any tooling is introduced.

The Solution: 50 Modular SOPs

Each SOP uses a standardised four-part architecture: (1) Objective, (2) Input Block, (3) Execution Prompt, (4) Expected Output. No complex multi-software setup is required — run them directly in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini.

02. Category 1: Financial & Invoicing SOPs (SOPs 1–10)

SOP 1: Automated Past-Due Invoice Escalation Sequence — chase overdue invoices without damaging client relationships or sounding passive-aggressive.

03. Categories 2–5: Client, Legal, Research & Admin

• Meeting transcript action matrices, scope-creep deflection, onboarding questionnaires and async video update scripts.
• Plain-English contract redlines, NDA summaries, IP assignment clauses and subcontractor statements of work.
• 10-minute competitor teardowns, customer persona deep-dives, pricing benchmarks and trend discovery.
• Inbox-zero 5-minute triage classifiers, weekly CEO strategic reviews and digital file archival protocols.

04. Appendix & Consolidated Legal Notice

Includes the consolidated legal and operational disclaimer covering the use of these SOPs.