The method is the asset
An expert who has delivered the same outcome enough times owns a method. Doing the work again by hand for every customer is what that method costs them.
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There is a specific kind of expert this platform is built for. Not somebody who wants an agent, and not somebody looking for a tool to try. Somebody who has delivered the same valuable outcome enough times to know the method, and who still has to do the work again for every customer.
Agencies that run the same audit each quarter. Research consultants who produce the same shape of briefing about a different subject. Fractional operators filing the same report for four companies. Due diligence and recruitment research teams working from a checklist that has not changed in two years.
The method is the asset. The doing is the tax.
The valuable part is knowing what to look at, in what order, and what to say about it. That part is stable. The part that consumes the week is the execution, and it is charged for by the hour precisely because it cannot be sold twice.
You are paid for the method and you spend your time on the execution.The trade this is trying to change
What changes when the method is written down
Once a method is a Playbook, it is a thing rather than a habit. Three things follow that did not before.
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| The method lives in one person's head | It is a document anybody on the team can read |
| Each delivery is done by hand | Each delivery is a run, with a record of what it did |
| Selling more means working more | Publishing it lets somebody else run it |
Where to start
Start with the outcome you have delivered most often, not the most interesting one. The method you know best is the one where you will notice immediately when the written version is wrong, and noticing is the whole of the first draft.1
Notes
- 1The Playbook Library carries working examples with their contracts and a real output on each page, which is usually a faster read than a blank builder. ↩
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What a Playbook actually is
A Playbook is the method an expert captures, written down as a document the runtime follows. What goes in it, what a Play is, and what stays yours.From Playbook to published Service
Publishing turns a Playbook into a Service that other people can pay to run. What the public contract says, and what a customer gets when they buy.Connectors and Connections are not the same
A Connector is the tool a Playbook says it needs. A Connection is the authorisation that lets a run reach it. Two words, and the difference matters.What one run includes
A run is one execution of a Playbook, from the trigger that started it to the artifact it returns. It is also the unit that gets metered and receipted.Pricing
How YAMO charges: you pay for the runs you make, and nothing for the ones you do not. What a run is, what it includes, and what publishing costs.Who it's for
The six kinds of expert YAMO is built for, and what changes when the method you already follow becomes a Service that somebody else can run.
Read a Playbook that does this
Every template in the library publishes its contract and a real example output.