Guides · 13 operator playbooks

Operator playbooks for the whole back-office.

Step-by-step guides for setting up Grid, running AI agents, billing client tenants, and passing your first compliance review.

Getting started

The first hour, the first week, the first client. Set Grid up without a sales call and without a binder of docs.

Getting started12min read

Set up Grid in a weekend

Two-day plan: tenant, branding, modules, team invites, and the first deal in the pipeline. No outside help required.

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Getting started7min read

Create your first client tenant

How parent and child tenants relate, what gets isolated, and where to set per-client branding so it sticks.

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For agencies

Running multiple client tenants from one login — billing, branding, and the boring stuff that breaks at scale.

For agencies9min read

White-label every child tenant

Per-client logo, palette, custom domain, and outbound email signatures. What gets isolated and what stays shared.

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For agencies13min read

Bill clients with per-tenant Stripe

Parent/child Stripe accounts, who owns the relationship, and how disputes route. The math behind one bill per client.

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AI agent playbooks

Battle-tested AI agent recipes. Each one ships a tangible artefact — a task, a draft email, a PDF — not a chat transcript.

AI playbooks10min read

Build a stale-deal follow-up agent

Detect deals stuck > 14 days, draft a personalised follow-up email, and file a task for the deal owner to send it.

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AI playbooks14min read

Automate the monthly board pack

CRM pipeline, top tasks, comms volume, and AI cost per tenant — assembled into a PDF on the first of every month.

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AI playbooks9min read

Route inbound intake with one agent

Read every new inbound email, classify it, file the right task, and assign to the right teammate — under five seconds.

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AI playbooks12min read

Spawn sub-agents, and when not to

Three patterns that compose well, two that almost always backfire, and the cost-cap math for nested spawns.

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Compliance + security

Pass procurement, sign the DPA, and walk into the security review with the answer to every question already written down.

Compliance15min read

Get SOC 2 ready in 90 days

A week-by-week plan to map controls, gather evidence, and close the gap with your auditor — without buying a separate GRC tool.

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Compliance6min read

Sign a GDPR DPA with Grid

What our DPA covers, the sub-processors list, how data residency works, and the exact request to send to start.

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