Lisbon · London · New York Issue 01 / MMXXVI Business Management
Folio

A complete operating system, bound as twenty volumes

Twenty templates.
One firm.

Folio is the Notion workspace a company actually runs on: strategy, delivery, revenue, people, money, and risk — without a second spreadsheet and without another SaaS seat.

Contents

Each volume is a database with the properties, statuses, and views that department already expects. Every one opens on a view named for what it holds — All deals, All people, All contracts — and nineteen of the twenty carry a second view already filtered or grouped for the question you actually arrive with: Pipeline, By department, Expiring soonest, Open work, At risk, Outstanding. Every line below arrives with the set.

ICompany HQExecutive

Fields Signal · Type (Decision, Risk, Win, Blocker, Metric, Ask) · Status · Priority (P0–P2) · Department · Owner · Date · Notes

XIMarketing OSMarketing

Fields Campaign · Type (Campaign, Content, Event, Launch, Always-on) · Channel (LinkedIn, Email, Web, Event, PR, Paid) · Budget · Launch · Status · Goal · Owner

IIStrategy & OKRsStrategy

Fields Objective · Type (Objective, Key Result) · Target · Progress % · Quarter (Q1–Q4, Annual) · Status · Department · Owner · Notes

XIIBrand StudioCreative

Fields Asset · Type (Logo, Color, Type, Photo, Deck, Template, Voice) · Channel (Web, Social, Print, Sales, Product) · Status (Draft, In review, Approved, Retired) · Approved · Owner · Notes

IIIMeeting OSLeadership

Fields Meeting · Type (Weekly, 1:1, Board, All-hands, Client, Standup, Interview) · Date · Status · Attendees · Decisions · Actions · Department

XIIIProduct RoadmapProduct

Fields Item · Type (Feature, Improvement, Bet, Debt) · Horizon (Now, Next, Later) · Theme (Growth, Retention, Platform, Quality, New market) · Impact · Effort · Status · Target · Owner

IVProject PortfolioPMO

Fields Project · Type (Client, Internal, Product, Ops) · Status · Health (On track, At risk, Off track) · Priority · Budget · Start · End · Owner · Summary

Linked to Client Accounts · Work Board

XIVPeople DirectoryHuman Resources

Fields Name · Role · Level (IC, Senior, Lead, Manager, Director, Exec) · Department · Location · Email · Start · Status (Active, Leave, Contractor, Alumni)

Linked to itself, through Manager and Direct reports · Talent Pipeline · Onboarding Academy · Performance OS

VWork BoardOperations

Fields Task · Status · Type (Delivery, Ops, Sales, People, Finance) · Priority · Effort (S, M, L) · Assignee · Due · Notes

Linked to Project Portfolio

XVTalent PipelineRecruiting

Fields Candidate · Role · Stage (Sourced, Screen, Interview, Offer, Hired, Rejected) · Source (Inbound, LinkedIn, Referral, Agency) · Rating (A, B, C) · Applied · Department · Owner

Linked to People Directory

VISOP LibraryQuality

Fields SOP · Category (Delivery, People, Finance, Sales, Legal, Ops) · Status (Draft, Live, Needs review, Retired) · Version · Review date · Owner · Summary

XVIOnboarding AcademyLearning

Fields Module · Track (Everyone, Sales, Delivery, People, Finance, Product) · Day · Duration (30m, 1h, Half day, Full day) · Required · Status · Owner · Notes

Linked to People Directory

VIICompany WikiKnowledge

Fields Article · Category (Policy, How-to, Team, Product, FAQ) · Status (Draft, Published, Needs review) · Reviewed · Owner · Summary · Department

XVIIPerformance OSPeople

Fields Cycle · Type (1:1, Review, Pulse, PIP) · Rating (Exceeds, Meets, Developing, Concern) · Status · Date · Department · Notes

Linked to People Directory

VIIISales CRMSales

Fields Deal · Stage (Lead, Qualified, Proposal, Negotiation, Won, Lost) · Source (Inbound, Outbound, Referral, Partner, Event) · Value · Probability % · Close · Next step · Owner

Linked to Client Accounts

XVIIIFinance LedgerFinance

Fields Entry · Kind (Income, Expense, Transfer) · Category (Retainer, Project, Software, Payroll, Contractor, Office, Travel, Tax, Other) · Amount · Status (Forecast, Submitted, Paid, Overdue) · Recurring · Date · Department

Linked to Vendors & Procurement

IXClient AccountsSuccess

Fields Account · Status (Prospect, Onboarding, Active, At risk, Churned) · Health (Healthy, Watch, Critical) · Segment (SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise) · ARR · Renewal · Owner · Notes

Linked to Sales CRM · Project Portfolio · Support Desk · Legal & Contracts

XIXVendors & ProcurementOps / Finance

Fields Vendor · Category (Software, Contractor, Facilities, Legal, Insurance, Benefits) · Status (Trial, Active, Preferred, Cancelled) · Risk · Annual · Renew · Contract link · Owner

Linked to Finance Ledger

XSupport DeskSupport

Fields Ticket · Type (Bug, Question, Billing, Feature) · Priority (P0–P3) · Status · Channel (Email, Chat, Slack, Phone) · Assignee · Opened · Notes

Linked to Client Accounts

XXLegal & ContractsLegal

Fields Contract · Type (Client, Vendor, Employment, NDA, Lease) · Status (Draft, Review, Signed, Expired, Terminated) · Risk · Value · Effective · Expiry · Owner · Notes

Linked to Client Accounts

What the market actually buys

Paid Notion templates do not sell as pretty dashboards. They sell as replacements for tools people already resent paying for. Across Gumroad, Etsy, and the Notion marketplace, four categories carry most of the volume: productivity systems, personal finance, content calendars, and lightweight CRMs. Business OS bundles sit above that: fewer buyers, higher tickets, and a buyer who will pay once to retire HubSpot-lite, Asana-lite, and a graveyard of Google Sheets.

$39–$99 Typical price for a role-specific CRM — the highest average order value of the four major template categories.
$129–$389 Company OS and “everything” bundles. Thomas Morales’ Company OS is $129; Easlo’s Everything Bundle is $389; StartOS’s full package lists at $279.
Role, not wallpaper Templates that name a job (agency delivery, freelancer CRM, hiring) outsell generic “life dashboards” for business buyers.

Sources: SendOwl, best-selling categories · ToolJet, top 20 business templates · Easlo Everything Bundle · Thomas Morales, Company OS · StartOS · Notion Everything, Business OS

Every function, named

Folio is mapped to how a firm is actually organised — not to Notion’s default blocks. The twenty volumes fall into four departments, and every one of them comes with the set.

Five volumes · 01–04, 07

Leadership

Company HQ, Strategy & OKRs, Meeting OS, Project Portfolio, and the Company Wiki — signals, objectives, cadence, and the written record of what was decided.

Five volumes · 08–12

Revenue

Sales CRM, Client Accounts, Support Desk, Marketing OS, and Brand Studio — first campaign through pipeline through renewal through ticket.

Four volumes · 14–17

People

People Directory, Talent Pipeline, Onboarding Academy, and Performance OS — hire them, land them, grow them, review them.

Six volumes · 05–06, 13, 18–20

Operations & Stewardship

Work Board, SOP Library, Product Roadmap, Finance Ledger, Vendors & Procurement, and Legal & Contracts — how the work gets done, and what it costs, owes, and signs.

Sample firm

Northshore

A design studio baked into all twenty volumes — five clients with their deals, projects, tickets and contracts, cross-linked, so you can see the system talk to itself before you put your own firm in it.

Use

Fourteen days

Rename the firm. Load people. Import live work. Hold the first weekly from Meeting OS. Then delete the leftover sheets.

The offer

The complete Folio

Twenty volumes, already built in Notion. Priced as a bundle because that is how operators buy — and how the bestsellers are sold.

Complete set · agency

$249

For putting it into your clients’ workspaces.

  • Everything in the $149 set
  • Agency licence — set it up and run it for your clients, no limit on how many — read the licence
  • Invoice your clients whatever you like for that work
Buy the agency licence — $249

Folio is sold whole. The volumes are built to reference each other — a CRM that rolls up into Finance, projects that draw their people from the directory — so a single volume on its own is a database, not a system. Both tiers come with a perpetual licence and thirty days to change your mind.

Notes from the editor

Is this a live Notion workspace or a mock?

Live. The twenty databases sit under the Folio hub in your Notion. Duplicate the hub for a clean copy, or run Northshore as the demo and replace the rows.

Why twenty, not one giant dashboard?

Bestsellers that try to be “one page for everything” collapse. Operators want a named system per function, with a front door. Folio is a magazine: a spine (the hub) and issues (the volumes).

Can I sell this?

You can sell your work with it — not the template itself. That is what the agency licence at $249 is for: duplicate Folio into a client’s workspace, configure it for their business, run it for them, and invoice whatever you like. There is no limit on how many clients. The $149 set licenses Folio for your own firm only.

What neither tier lets you do is pass the template on as a product: no reselling the duplicate link, no listing it on another template marketplace. The full terms are in the licence, and it is one page.

Can I list this on the Notion template marketplace?

No — and that one is not our rule to bend. The Notion marketplace terms are blunt about it: “Reposting of content or work, in whole or in part, purchased from other creators is strictly prohibited.” Whatever licence we grant you, at either tier, listing a template you bought from another creator is not something Notion allows in their gallery. The same answer holds for Gumroad, Etsy, and every other store.

What an agency actually wants is still open, and it is what the $249 tier sells: duplicate Folio into a client’s workspace, set it up for their business, run it for them, and bill for the work. Folio is a tool you work with. It does not become a product you list.

Does it arrive empty, or with something in it?

With something in it. Nothing is left blank on purpose: all twenty volumes arrive carrying Northshore, a fictional design studio — five people in the directory, five client accounts, five signed contracts, live deals and projects, and a ledger with invoices out and bills in.

The point of the sample is that it holds together. Follow one client through: Lumen Co is a won deal in the CRM, an account in Client Accounts, a live project in the Portfolio, three tasks on the Work Board, two tickets in Support Desk, a signed MSA in Legal, and an overdue milestone invoice in the Finance Ledger. Won deals sum to the ARR in Client Accounts, which is exactly the progress on the ARR objective in OKRs.

When you want your own firm in there, the rows are what you delete — the structure, the properties, the statuses, and the views stay.

Can I ask something before I buy?

Write to contact@cooploy.com. A real person answers, and questions about fit are the cheapest ones to ask first.