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How to plan a run, plan the work, and get a space ready with your team — written for the person doing it, not for a screen full of settings.

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What ReadyFactor is A short tour of how ReadyFactor fits together — runs, zones, the people doing the work, and the record at the end.
What ready means ReadyFactor treats ready as four specific checks rather than an opinion. Here is what each one tests, what it deliberately ignores, and what happens when all four pass.

Plan your first run Creating a run — the space, the ready time, and the zones you cut it into. What each choice affects later, and what you can change afterwards.
Write the work Turning a draft into a plan someone else can follow — tasks, steps, estimates, what is required, gear cases, and the review that unlocks invitations.
Invite your helpers Helper invitations — the private link, the printable scan poster, why a link is only shown once, and how to revoke one.
Who leads a zone There are three different things called a zone lead in ReadyFactor. They do very different amounts, and picking the wrong one is the most common source of confusion.
Reuse a run you have already done Copying a previous run's plan — what comes across, what deliberately does not, and why the copy arrives already reviewed.
Print a setup sheet The paper fallback — every zone and step in order, for a crew working without phones, and the one thing ticking a box on it deliberately does not do.

Run the setup Starting setup, reading the board, handling help requests, zone sign-off, and confirming the space ready.
Handle a help request What a helper's request looks like on your side — taking ownership, the photo they attached, resolving with a note, and why safety requests are different.
Waive work that isn't needed Cutting required work mid-setup — why it needs a reason, exactly what the report prints next to your name, and when to set a close-by time instead.
Sign off, and reopening if you have to Confirming a zone ready, confirming the whole space, who is allowed to, and exactly what reopening a signed-off run costs you.

The readiness report What the report says, the four verdicts it can carry, the table that has to be empty, and what happens when you share it.
Share a report The private view-only link, its 14-day expiry, switching it off, saving a PDF, and what a shared copy says about photos it doesn't include.
You were sent a readiness report For anyone holding a link to a readiness report — what the document is, how to read the verdict, and what to do if something in it looks wrong.

You were sent a link to help For helpers — what happens when you open the link, how to do your work, how to say you are stuck, and what happens if the signal drops.
Doing your work For helpers — the three tabs, starting and finishing a task, confirming gear is where it should be, photos, and leaving a note.
Asking for help For helpers — raising a request from the task you're on, which kind to pick, adding a photo, and the one thing ReadyFactor is not.
Working without a signal For helpers — what "held on this phone" means, why nothing counts until it sends, and the one rule that will stop you losing work.
Leading a zone For a helper given lead controls — taking ownership of requests, resolving them, and confirming your zone ready, all from a phone.

Your account Your name and contact details — both printed on every report you coordinate — plus passwords, two-factor authentication, and alerts on this device.
Your team Inviting a coordinator, administrator or zone lead — what each can do, how invitations work, sign-in requirements, and resetting someone's two-factor.

The words we use Run, space, zone, task, gear case, request, sign-off, helper, coordinator, organization — and the phases a run passes through.

Cannot find it? Write to hello@readyfactor.app. A person reads every message, and the gaps you find are how this gets written.