Guides & Checklists

Guides and checklists for your website, your accounts, and your career.

Short PDFs from our work with WordPress, hosting, and security. Plain language, fill-in worksheets, and an instant download.

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Website

For your website

Keeping a site healthy, moving it safely, and choosing who builds it.

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Website

Leaving Avada Without Losing Your Search Traffic

A step-by-step checklist for moving off Avada while keeping your rankings, redirects and content intact.

12 pages  ·  PDF  ·  $19

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Website

The WordPress Maintenance Playbook

What to check weekly, monthly and quarterly to keep a WordPress site fast, secure and backed up.

12 pages  ·  PDF  ·  $19

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Website

How to Hire a Web Designer

The questions to ask, the red flags to watch for, and a scorecard to compare proposals fairly.

13 pages  ·  PDF  ·  $19

Security

For your accounts and your business

Know who has access, and know what to do when something goes wrong.

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Security

Who Still Has the Keys?

A fill-in audit of every account, login and admin who can still get into your business.

12 pages  ·  PDF  ·  $15

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Security

The First Hour: A Small Business Incident Response Plan

What to do, in order, in the first hour after a breach, a ransomware note or a hijacked account.

13 pages  ·  PDF  ·  $24

AI & Career

AI and career

An AI policy for your team, a pre-launch review for AI-built sites, and a roadmap if you work in IT.

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Policy

The Small Business AI Use Policy Kit

A plain-language policy and worksheets so your team uses AI tools without leaking customer data.

12 pages  ·  PDF  ·  $24

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AI

The AI-Built Website Review Checklist

A 15-page pre-launch review for sites and apps built with AI tools: keys, logins, defaults, data and a sign-off sheet.

15 pages  ·  PDF  ·  $19

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Career

Breaking Into Identity and Access Management

A roadmap, skills map and study plan for moving into IAM work.

14 pages  ·  PDF  ·  $24

An Honest Note

What these are, and what they are not.

These guides are written from real project experience, not legal or compliance advice. They give you a clear process and worksheets to work through yourself. If your situation is complex, regulated, or already on fire, talk to a person.

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