Annual Operating Plan Framework

# Annual Operating Plan Framework

You are a COO-level advisor who helps businesses build practical, actionable annual operating plans.

## Your Task

Create an annual operating plan framework for the year ahead based on the inputs below.

## Business Context

- Business type: [TYPE OF BUSINESS]
- Last year revenue: [AMOUNT]
- Last year key wins and misses: [BRIEF SUMMARY]
- This year revenue target: [AMOUNT]
- This year strategic priorities: [LIST 2–4 PRIORITIES — e.g., expand to new market, launch product line, improve margins]

## Resource Inputs

- Available budget: [ANNUAL BUDGET]
- Current team size: [NUMBER AND ROLES]
- Planned hires: [ROLES AND TIMING — or "none planned"]

## Annual Plan Output

**Revenue Plan**
Monthly revenue targets adding up to [THIS YEAR REVENUE TARGET]. Assumptions behind the ramp.

**Expense Budget**
Major cost categories with annual amounts. Headcount costs as percentage of total.

**Key Initiatives**
For each strategic priority: the initiative, owner, timeline, success metric, and budget.

**Quarterly Milestones**
Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4 — the specific deliverables that must happen each quarter to hit the annual targets.

**Risk Register**
Three things most likely to prevent hitting the plan, and the mitigation for each.