Library + Playbook
Capture strong work, improve one sales motion and give the team a trusted place to find what works.
- Up to 50 selected assets
- Five retrieval workflows
- One evidence-enhanced sales playbook
A working service, available now
Your first Excellence Library. Built in 30 days.
We identify the proposals, answers, processes and playbooks your company should never lose—then turn them into a trusted, searchable operating library and one evidence-enhanced sales playbook inside Microsoft 365, SharePoint or Google Workspace.
Founding Sprint£1,250
Optional ongoing stewardship from £199/month after delivery.
One-off implementation
Optional ongoing stewardship from £199/month after delivery.
Choose the first system
Two service-led Sprints. One evidence standard.
Both offers are implementable now inside customer-controlled tools. Start with the problem that creates the clearest commercial value.
Up to 50selected source assets
1evidence-enhanced sales playbook
30 daysfrom kickoff to handover
1 teamtrained to own the system
What you receive
A working system—not a strategy deck.
The Sprint is deliberately scoped so a growing company can begin using it immediately. Your source documents stay in an environment your organisation controls.
Excellence Map
A clear inventory of where valuable work exists, what should be preserved and which knowledge gaps create the most risk.
Structured Library
Up to 50 selected assets organised with owners, status, category, outcome, review dates and reusable descriptions.
Evidence-Enhanced Playbook
One core sales motion built from proven disciplines, then improved with selected won-deal, proposal and retention evidence.
Five Retrieval Workflows
Configured around questions your team actually asks, such as finding a winning answer, preparing discovery or starting onboarding.
Governance Rules
Simple definitions for Draft, Approved and Proven, plus ownership and review rules so the library stays trusted.
Team Workshop
A practical handover session showing employees how to search, qualify, reuse and improve the content.
90-Day Plan
A prioritised roadmap for expanding the library, measuring usage and deciding whether the future Arete app is valuable.
The 30-day plan
Four weeks from scattered work to a usable standard.
We work with one internal owner and a small group of subject-matter experts. The company decides what is supplied and what is approved.
Week 1
Discover
Kickoff workshop, problem mapping, use-case selection and secure source-asset collection.
Week 2
Qualify
Review, classify and add context to the selected examples of strong work, then map observed sales and retention patterns.
Week 3
Build
Create the library, views, naming system, statuses, five retrieval workflows and first evidence-enhanced sales play.
Week 4
Embed
Team training, governance handover, final corrections and 90-day improvement plan.
Best fit
This Sprint is likely valuable when…
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Your team repeats valuable workProposals, customer answers, playbooks, onboarding or project delivery.
✓
The right version is hard to findPeople search folders, ask colleagues or rebuild material from memory.
✓
Knowledge is concentratedA few experienced people carry disproportionate operational knowledge.
Not yet
It may not be suitable when…
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You want autonomous decisionsArete structures and retrieves trusted work; people remain responsible.
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No one can approve the contentA library cannot remain trusted without clear internal ownership.
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You need enterprise integrations nowThe initial Sprint prioritises a simple, customer-controlled implementation.
The playbook scope
One sales motion. Clear evidence boundaries.
The founding Sprint focuses on one repeatable sales motion—such as discovery, proposal development, objection handling or commercial-to-delivery handover—so the output is usable rather than theoretical.
Proven selling disciplines.
We define the standard practice, decision points and actions the team should already understand.
Selected company examples.
You provide relevant, permitted and optionally redacted won-deal, proposal and retention evidence within the agreed scope.
A human-approved company play.
The finished play shows the standard method, observed pattern, repeatable action, evidence source, owner and review date.
The Sprint does not require unrestricted CRM access. Customer documents remain in the agreed customer-controlled environment, and any confidential or personal information should be minimised or redacted where it is not required.
See the working structure
Download the sample implementation templates.
These examples show the fields used during a Sprint. They contain fictional data and are safe to inspect.
Commercial terms
Simple enough to approve. Useful enough to prove.
The founding price is designed for the first five suitable customers while the service and future product are refined.
Founding customer
Arete Excellence Sprint
One company, one primary team, up to 50 selected assets, five configured workflows and one core evidence-enhanced sales playbook.
£1,250one-off
- 50% to reserve the Sprint
- 50% on completed handover
- Optional stewardship: £199/month
- No long-term software contract required
Final scope, confidentiality, responsibilities and payment terms are agreed in writing before work begins. Customer documents remain subject to the customer’s own retention, access and compliance requirements.
Apply for a Sprint
Tell us where your best work gets lost.
We will reply to confirm fit, propose a kickoff date and send the short discovery checklist. Applying does not commit you to purchase.