How a playbook is made

The open catalogue already lists dozens of titles on AI for small business, most of them self-published. What we sell that they do not is the check: every playbook passes a verification gate before it is published.

The production line

A playbook is made by a production line, not by a single author. Each stage is carried out by AI agents working to a fixed template; the verdict at the verification gate is given separately from the drafting.

1. Selection. A problem is kept only if it has a named buyer, people searching for an answer, and claims that can be checked.
2. Brief, kit and handbook. The ten-page brief is written first: it is the specification the handbook is checked against. The facilitator kit and the handbook are written from it in one pass of research. The handbook is 86 pages; the kit includes the brief as the pre-read.
3. Verification. The gate described below.
4. Layout and cover. The layout and the cover are made as part of the product; the PDF and EPUB files are produced.
5. Publication. The page, the price and the listing.

The verification gate

• Every claim, price, name and link is checked against a source.
• Every claim that can change — a price, a product name, a legal obligation — is dated and sourced.
• Every link is checked to resolve.
• The checklists are walked by someone who did not write them.
• For a facilitator kit, the timings of the modules are tried against the material.

The gate covers the handbook and the kit, and the brief inside the kit. A playbook that does not pass it is not published.

The copyright check

Before publication the copyright check is run on every passage. No passage taken from another source is published without its attribution and its permission.

Why this matters to you

A method you will put in front of a team has to be right on the details: which tool, what it costs, what the rules are. A mistake in a handbook becomes a mistake in your company. The gate is there so that you do not have to check our facts yourself, and the copyright check is there so that the material you copy into your own rule sheet or slides is ours to give.

Our objective is that no more than 0.1% of the products we sell are the subject of a reported defect. If you find one, write to hello@playbookhouse.ch.