# Operations Manual

URL: /agents/operations-manual · Id: `capability:operations-manual`

> The Operations Manual renders a Startup’s Teams, Role contracts, Processes and Workflows as one document, kept current from its definition.

The Operations Manual renders a [Startup](/business/nouns/startup)’s [Teams](/business/nouns/team), [Role](/business/nouns/role) contracts, [Processes](/business/nouns/process) and [Workflows](/business/nouns/workflow) as one document, kept current from its definition.

## Contract
Status `planned`. The manual has one chapter per Team, rendered from the Startup's definition, so a merged [Change](/business/nouns/change) updates it in the same [Version](/business/nouns/version).

| Part | What it holds |
| --- | --- |
| Aim | The Founding Hypothesis and the [Goals](/business/nouns/goal) the Startup is judged by |
| Seats | Every seat, who fills it, and the approval rules it asks you by |
| Role contracts | Each seat's purpose, results, standards, [Limits](/business/nouns/limit) and [Mandates](/business/nouns/mandate), with its Version |
| Processes | Each Process with its Workflow steps, who does each, and each step's standard |
| Where seats work | The [Systems](/business/nouns/system) each seat works in |
| Configuration | Every [Setting](/business/nouns/setting) in plain words, with its value |

`Startup.manual({ format })` returns it as Markdown or PDF.

## Verbs
None.

## Interfaces
None.

## Example
A new [Human](/business/nouns/human) seated as [Finance Lead](/agents/finance/finance-lead) reads the finance chapter. It holds the seat's Role contract and the month-end close Process with its seven Workflow steps.