Canonical page: https://tellenze.com/work-templates Free templates # A useful start. Make it your own. Six practical templates for defining, planning and reviewing work. Start with a blank version, learn from a filled example and leave with a Markdown file you can use. [Choose a template](#choose-template)[Follow a complete workflow](https://tellenze.com/examples/release-notes) No account or email needed. Read, copy or download. 01 / A clear work brief ## Customers can download a receipt. OutcomeA useful payment record for the customer’s own completed order. ScopeOne PDF download. Refund receipts can wait. CheckCorrect fields, current access and a clear retry. Fictional example · a writing structure you can adapt [Open the brief template](https://tellenze.com/work-templates/clear-work-brief) Choose your next result ## A small structure. A clearer conversation. Choose the part of the work you need help with. Every template includes instructions, a blank version and a clearly labelled fictional example. A template for this moment ## Prepare the work Agree the result and make room for the work that supports it. 01 ### Clear work brief Turn a broad request into an outcome someone can act on and check. Use it when you are about to hand work to a person or an agent and need to agree what a useful result looks like. [Open clear work brief](https://tellenze.com/work-templates/clear-work-brief) 02 ### First-focus plan Choose a useful short-term outcome and make room for the work that supports it. Use it when a team needs a shared starting point for a Focus and wants to avoid treating every request as equally urgent. [Open first-focus plan](https://tellenze.com/work-templates/first-focus-plan) A template for this moment ## Make the next choice Discuss a risk while you can act. Keep the reason for a decision. 03 ### Pre-mortem actions Imagine a failed outcome, then turn the plausible causes into early checks and actions. Use it when you are preparing a change or launch and want to discuss risks while there is still time to act. [Open pre-mortem actions](https://tellenze.com/work-templates/pre-mortem-actions) 05 ### Decision record Keep the options, reasoning and consequences of an agreed choice together. Use it when a choice affects future work and the next reader needs to understand why it was made. [Open decision record](https://tellenze.com/work-templates/decision-record) A template for this moment ## Review and learn Show what happened, then choose a useful improvement. 04 ### Retrospective actions Connect a lesson from completed work to one observable improvement. Use it when a team has finished a piece of work and wants its learning to affect what happens next. [Open retrospective actions](https://tellenze.com/work-templates/retrospective-actions) 06 ### Stakeholder review Show the result, evidence and next decision in a review someone can use. Use it when you need to share a work update with selected readers or ask for a concrete decision. [Open stakeholder review](https://tellenze.com/work-templates/stakeholder-review) Use it where you work ## Portable text. Your current facts. Download a Markdown file or copy the text into your preferred document or work item. Markdown keeps headings, lists and checkboxes in a plain text format that many tools can read. These files are writing templates. They do not install a native Tellenze template, create work or import template JSON. For reusable templates inside a workspace, follow the product guide. [Use native work templates](https://tellenze.com/guides/work-templates) - ### Start with the blank version. Keep the sections that help the real work. Replace every placeholder with a fact, decision or visible question. - ### Read the example for structure. Its fictional scenario shows the level of detail. Bring your own sources, people and actual evidence. - ### Check it with the next person. Agree the outcome, access and next action. Copying text does not grant access to a source. Turn the structure into work ## Keep the goal clear. Give the next step a home. Use a guide when you need the steps, or a tool when you need help producing the result. [Build an agent brief](https://tellenze.com/agent-brief-builder)[Browse the tools](https://tellenze.com/tools) COME TAKE A LOOK ## A little less busy. A lot more together. Curious? Join the waitlist and see how we welcome your team. Tell us a little about your team. We’ll explain the next steps and invite you when we have capacity for your workspace. [Join waitlist](https://tellenze.com/waitlist)Start with your email. No payment needed to join.