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You can build the first useful part of the model in a few minutes. One organization, one team, the people in it.

4 stepsAbout 10 minutesUpdated Oct 2026

Create your organization

Choose Start with one team and sign in with your work email. Particulars sends a single-use magic link; there’s no password to create.

The first time you sign in, create an organization: a name and a URL slug. You can add your email domain later, so colleagues who sign in with the same domain can choose to join. Owners can turn on automatic joining when that’s the right policy.

NoteYou can belong to more than one organization. Useful for advisors, contractors, agencies, portfolio careers, joint ventures, side projects, and anyone whose work doesn’t fit inside one employer.

Write your first team

From the organization dashboard, choose New charter. Every team starts with the same six sections:

  1. 01Purpose
  2. 02Focus areas
  3. 03Measures
  4. 04Decision rights
  5. 05Roles
  6. 06Guidelines

Start with purpose and focus areas. They give everything else something to organize around. A useful purpose is one sentence; a useful set of focus areas is three to seven short territories. You don’t need to finish the whole charter before it’s useful.

Add the people and links

Add the people who fill the team’s roles. Leave a role unfilled when the gap is real. Then link related teams with mentions, parent and child relationships, and shared roles. The model gets more useful as its relationships become explicit.

Share it

Every charter has a URL inside its organization. Share it with members; outsiders can’t use it to confirm the charter exists. Press ⌘K from anywhere to jump between teams and common actions.

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