Module 6 · Level 2 · 10 min
The templates: which one, when
77 of them, in twelve families. The useful skill is not knowing them all — it is recognising which shape your question already has.
The twelve families
| Family | What lives there |
|---|---|
| AI (12) | Prompt libraries, agent briefs, an AI-adoption inventory |
| Personal (10) | Weekly reviews, decisions, reading, life planning |
| Canvases (9) | Business Model Canvas, Lean Canvas, Value Proposition, SWOT |
| Goals (7) | OKRs, annual plans, project plans |
| Team, Sales, Charts, Build, Ads (6 each) | Org charts, onboarding, pipelines, roadmaps, campaign plans |
| Flow (5) | Processes, decision trees, funnels |
| Ideas, Docs (2 each) | Brainstorms, vision boards, minutes, policies |
Open them from ✨ Templates — “start from a template: OKR, meeting minutes, vision board, org chart…”
Try one before you commit to it
Three of the best known are written up in full, each editable right in the page, with a worked example and the way it usually gets filled in badly:
- Business Model Canvas — the nine blocks, and how to adapt it to marketplaces, free tiers and non-profits.
- Lean Canvas — problem first, and why four blocks differ from the one above.
- AI adoption — task inventory, scoring, two pilots, the rules of the game.
The index lists the rest.
The part most template galleries leave out
Every framework has a question it answers well and a question it quietly refuses. A Business Model Canvas will not tell you whether anyone wants the thing. A SWOT will not prioritise. An OKR sheet full of tasks is a to-do list wearing a costume.
Which is why the framework pages here each carry a note on when the tool is the wrong one. It is the most useful paragraph on the page, and the one nobody else writes.
Your turn
Pick the family that matches something you owe someone this month, fill one template on a real subject, and publish it to the person who asked.
A canvas nobody read is an exercise. A canvas someone replied to is a decision.