> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://www.seilers.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Use Playbook Templates to Speed Up Process Creation
> Browse the Seilers template gallery to find ready-made playbooks for hiring, onboarding, sales, and more. Customize a template and save your own.
Starting a playbook from scratch takes time — time spent figuring out the right structure before you've written a single word of real content. Seilers solves this with a built-in template gallery: a curated collection of ready-made playbooks designed by process experts across the most common team functions. Pick a template, customize it for your team, and publish in a fraction of the time it would take to build from zero.
## Template Gallery
The template gallery lives in the **Playbooks** section of your sidebar. Click **Templates** at the top of the Playbooks page to open it. The gallery is organized by category so you can browse by department or use the search bar to find templates by keyword.
Each template card shows you the template name, a brief description of the use case it covers, and a preview of how many sections it includes. You can click any template to preview its full structure before committing to use it — no changes are made to your workspace until you explicitly click **Use Template**.
The gallery includes templates built and maintained by the Seilers team, as well as any custom templates your workspace administrators have published for your organization.
## Built-In Template Categories
Templates for the full recruiting lifecycle — job scoping, sourcing, interview frameworks, offer management, and candidate communication guides.
Structured first-day, first-week, and 30-60-90-day plans to help new hires ramp quickly and feel welcomed from day one.
Proven frameworks for prospecting, discovery, demos, objection handling, and closing — designed to align your entire revenue team around a consistent motion.
Process templates for vendor management, compliance reviews, business continuity planning, and cross-functional project coordination.
## Using a Template
Open the **Playbooks** section in your sidebar and click **Templates**. Use the category filters on the left to narrow the list by department, or type a keyword into the search bar (e.g., "interview", "renewal", "incident") to find a specific template.
Click any template card to open the preview panel. The preview shows you the full section structure, sample content blocks, and any embedded SOPs or checklists included in the template. Take a few minutes to read through it — understanding the structure before you start customizing saves significant editing time later.
When you've found the right template, click the **Use Template** button in the top-right corner of the preview panel. Seilers creates a new draft playbook in your workspace with all the template's sections and content pre-populated. The template itself remains unchanged in the gallery.
Open your new draft playbook and make it your own:
* Replace placeholder text with your actual processes, team names, and tools
* Add or remove sections to match your specific workflow
* Update embedded SOPs to point to the correct procedures in your Seilers library
* Fill in the **Details** panel with the right owner, category, and tags
* Delete any sections that don't apply to your team's context
When you're satisfied with the content, click **Publish** to make the playbook available to your team.
Before clicking **Use Template**, spend a few minutes reading through the full preview. Templates are structured around best practices, so understanding the intended flow helps you make smarter customizations rather than deleting sections that might actually be useful once you understand their purpose.
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## Saving a Custom Template
If you've built a playbook that your team wants to reuse as a starting point — for example, a quarterly business review template or a product launch runbook — you can save it as a custom template in just a few clicks.
1. Open the published playbook you want to save as a template.
2. Click the **⋯** menu in the top-right corner and select **Save as Template**.
3. Give the template a name and a brief description explaining what it's for and who should use it.
4. Choose the **visibility level**: save it for your own use, share it with your team, or publish it across the entire workspace.
5. Click **Save Template**. Your template now appears in the gallery under the **Custom** tab.
Any edits you make to the original playbook after saving do not automatically update the template. If you want to refresh a custom template, save a new version from the updated playbook.
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## Sharing Templates
Seilers supports two levels of template sharing so you can control who has access to your custom templates:
**Team-level sharing** makes a template visible only to members of a specific team within your workspace. This is ideal for department-specific templates — for example, a Sales team onboarding template that contains proprietary messaging frameworks or pricing structures you don't want visible workspace-wide.
To share at the team level, select **Share with team** when saving the template, then choose the team from the dropdown.
**Workspace-level sharing** publishes the template to the gallery for everyone in your Seilers workspace. Workspace admins can also feature a template in the gallery's **Recommended** section to make it more discoverable.
To share at the workspace level, select **Share with workspace** when saving the template. Workspace admins can review and approve custom templates before they appear in the main gallery, depending on your workspace's moderation settings.
Workspace admins can manage all custom templates — including editing descriptions, changing visibility, and removing outdated templates — from the workspace **Settings** page under the **Templates** tab.