About PlaybookOps

We believe the founder should lead the business, not carry it.

PlaybookOps exists to close the gap between what your company knows and what your team can execute without you. We turn conversations into systems, systems into consistent execution, and execution into founder freedom.

Give the founder their mind back.
Give the organization a memory.

You did not fail to document your business. The methods failed to fit how business knowledge is actually created.

The people who know the work are busy doing it. They will explain it in conversation, but asking them to stop, open a blank template, and write a manual turns critical knowledge into a project that never gets finished.

The problem is not willpower. The problem is friction.

Built after seeing the same bottleneck in business after business.

For more than 16 years, Ryan Harris worked alongside founders and operations leaders. He built and scaled a $2.5 million digital marketing agency, ran on EOS for eight years, founded RizeX, and learned from more than 500 SMB leaders.

The pattern was remarkably consistent: talented owners had built real companies, hired capable people, and still could not step away. The knowledge needed to make the business run lived in conversations, instincts, scattered files, and the heads of a few indispensable people.

Traditional documentation demanded months of meetings and writing. Generic software provided another empty place to store work nobody had time to create. AI changed what was possible, but only when it was grounded in the company’s real knowledge.

What if operators could simply talk through the work and the system could turn what they know into something the whole company can execute?

That question became PlaybookOps: a frictionless way to capture expertise, transform it into consultant-grade operational systems, and deploy it to the people who need it.

Help founders convert tribal knowledge into scalable systems so the business can grow without burning them out.

The outcome we build toward“My business can run for two weeks without me, and nothing breaks.”

Not more documentation for its own sake. More time, more resilience, more transferable value, and more peace of mind.

Operations truth meets technical depth.

PlaybookOps combines first-hand experience inside founder-led businesses with the technical ability to turn captured knowledge into a living operating environment.

RH
Founder & CEO

Ryan Harris

Ryan brings 16+ years of experience building operating systems for SMBs. After scaling a $2.5M agency, running on EOS for eight years, founding RizeX, and working with hundreds of business leaders, he saw founder dependency as the recurring bottleneck behind burnout, stalled growth, and fragile execution.

Vision keeper · Category storyteller · Customer truth filter
JY
Co-Founder & Tech Architect

Jack Yonke

Jack brings 6+ years as a data scientist at Idaho National Laboratory, where he worked with complex data, operational analytics, and AI-powered systems. He connects processes, metrics, and execution visibility so company knowledge becomes useful rather than merely stored.

AI systems · Data architecture · Execution visibility

The principles behind the platform.

These values shape what we build, what we cut, and how we measure whether PlaybookOps is actually creating freedom.

01

Clarity over complexity

The system should make the next right action obvious, not give your team one more complicated tool to manage.

02

Execution excellence

Knowledge creates value only when people can use it consistently in the real work of the business.

03

AI-first innovation

AI should amplify trusted company knowledge. It should never become the hero or automate undocumented chaos.

04

Founder freedom

Every process captured should remove another reason the business needs to interrupt its founder.

05

Radical accountability

Clear owners, standards, and visibility turn good intentions into reliable execution.

Remove friction change behavior create freedom.

If a feature, workflow, or decision does not make it easier for a burned-out founder to get their life back, it does not belong.

One conversation can remove one more reason the business needs you.

Teach PlaybookOps the way you would teach a capable new employee. We’ll help turn that conversation into a system your team can use.

Build Your First Playbook No documentation prep required.