Compared with a free AI plan
It answered every question you asked it.
6 questions it does not ask
Every one of these is a real question from our intake.
| Question | The cost |
|---|---|
| Money | |
| What is your total capital, and which of it is a loan you have not closed yet? | A plan built on money you do not have yet reads fine until a lender asks what happens if the loan does not fund. |
| Will you subcontract, hire W-2, or both? | It changes your burdened cost per hour, your comp classification, and what you can legally tell a crew to do. |
| The work | |
| Service area radius from your home base, in miles? | Drive time is unbilled labor. It sits inside your real hourly cost and almost nobody accounts for it in year one. |
| Name three to five local competitors, and what each does well and poorly. | Positioning built from your own observation of named shops beats positioning built from a description of your industry. |
| If you have a partner | |
| Which events trigger a forced buyout: death, disability, divorce, voluntary exit, cause, bankruptcy? | Divorce is the one nobody lists, and it is how an ex-spouse ends up holding equity in your company. |
| How is a departing owner's interest valued: book value, a multiple of trailing revenue, a multiple of EBITDA, or an appraisal? | Answering it now costs an evening. Answering it during the event costs a lawyer and a friendship. |
Three things a chat window cannot do
It forgets you the moment the tab closes.
Ask for a plan, then a budget, then a hiring schedule, and you get three documents written independently. The revenue number in one will not match the other two. Every CrewPlaybook document is generated with the others in view and then checked against them.
A chat answer is either taken on faith or researched from scratch, because nothing points at a source. Every requirement in your launch checklist names the agency that issues it and links to the page where you confirm it.
The session ends and the context goes with it. Your pack, your worksheet answers, and the questions you asked about them stay in your dashboard, and you keep filling the worksheet in as the real numbers come in.
Please note
CrewPlaybook is built on the same kind of AI, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. No person reviews your pack before it reaches you. We do the finding and you do the confirming: every requirement names the agency that issues it and links to its page, so the checking in front of you is a short specific list rather than a weekend of research. CrewPlaybook is not a law firm and does not write legal documents or give legal advice.
Read a finished pack before you decide anything.
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