Twelve documents covering the first two weeks of a freelance project, the part where scope gets decided. Written by someone three years into solo work, in the order the jobs arrive. What's inside: a client intake form (8 sections, 40+ fields, plus the access checklist that sets your real start date), a one-page scope statement with numbered deliverables, exclusions, five assumptions and a 7-day acceptance clause, a project brief in 12 sections, a 45-minute kickoff agenda in six timed blocks, a 28-question questionnaire with a table for reading answers as project risk, a revision policy with the two-round rule and a pushback script, a payment schedule comparing five structures with a worked three-milestone example and a reminder calendar, six email templates (lead reply, quote, paperwork, pre-due nudge, late payment at day 1, 7 and 14, wrap-up with the referral ask), an offboarding checklist covering money, repo hygiene, access transfer, a 12-column client tracker CSV with 5 filled example rows, and a 28-page printable PDF binding it all together. Plain Markdown, so you edit the wording in any text editor and paste it into a proposal in a minute. No app, no subscription, nothing to install. Amounts and rates stay out: yours change, the structure does not. Templates, not legal advice. Check deposit and late-fee rules where your client is registered.