Small Team Quality
Practical, audit-ready systems for small operations and growing teams, built by someone who's done the paperwork, not just talked about it. No corporate bloat, no software subscriptions, no department required.Hi, I'm Dorothy Knox. I'm a Document Control Administrator with 10 years in semiconductor and medical device manufacturing, and the founder of Small Team Quality. Everything here comes from the same place: watching small teams struggle with problems a big company would throw a whole department at, and building the lightweight version that actually works instead.
Choose Your Toolkit
Document Control Without the Department
Get your documents numbered, versioned, approved, and formatted consistently, without a document control system or a dedicated admin.
Nonconformance Without the Department
Catch problems, decide what happens to them, find out why they happened, and prove the fix actually worked.
Audit-Ready Without the Department
Turn your document control and nonconformance systems into something you can prove, at any time, without a scramble.
Training Without the Department
Define what each role needs to know, prove training happened, verify it actually worked, and know when it's time to do it again.
Change Control Without the Department
Turn changes into trackable investigations, without the hidden risk.
Save Big When You Build the Full System
Get everything your team needs to launch, scale, and stay audit-ready.
Not Sure Where to Start?
If your documents are a mess (multiple versions floating around, no clear "current" copy) → Start with Document Control.If something keeps going wrong and nobody's tracking it → Start with Nonconformance.If an audit is coming and you're not sure you're ready → Start with Audit-Ready (works best alongside Document Control and Nonconformance).If training happens informally and nothing's written down → Start with Training.If changes keep happening without an investigation or formal approvals → Start with Change Control.Most small operations end up needing all five eventually. Each toolkit works completely on its own, and they're built to fit together as you grow.
Why "Without the Department"?
Every toolkit in this series solves a problem big companies hand to an entire department, and does it with plug-and-play templates a small team can actually keep up with. No software to learn, no consultant to hire, no process too heavy to maintain. Just the essential structure, ready to customize to your operation.
Built for Teams Too Small for a Department, Too Serious to Wing It
You don't need to look disorganized just because you don't have a department for this. Pick the toolkit that matches your most immediate gap, and build from there.
Browse all four toolkits above, or start with the one that matches what's keeping you up at night.
These toolkits are a practical starting point for small teams building out their own processes. They're designed to be customized to fit your organization's specific processes, terminology, and regulatory requirements. None of these toolkits guarantee ISO, FDA, or other regulatory compliance, or a passed audit, on their own. You (or whoever owns this at your organization) are responsible for tailoring these tools to meet your organization's actual requirements.
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