What’s on the page
Particulars over platitudes.
Most organizations under-invest in teams. Particulars is for people and organizations that believe in the power of groups of people rallied toward a common, clear purpose.
PurposeWhy does the team exist, and what does it owe everyone else?
Drive strategic growth through partnerships.
Turn other publishers’ audiences into Sojourn readers, at a margin.
Focus areasWhich territories get sustained attention?
Partnerships, growth, revenue.
Syndication. The rate card. Renewals.
MeasuresHow will you know the work is working?
Partner satisfaction.
Margin per syndication deal, reviewed every two weeks.
Decision rightsWho decides, who’s consulted, who’s told, who does it?
Leadership approves major deals.
Deals over $10k: Clay decides, Finance is consulted, Sales executes.
RolesWhich jobs exist, and who or what fills them?
Partnerships manager (TBD).
Renewals: Cullen and the Renewals agent, together.
GuidelinesWhat can people do without asking?
Collaborate across teams.
Inside the rate card, Sales sends terms without waiting.
How it works
Proactive loops that get smarter every day.
Org charts go stale because the work moves quickly and the PowerPoint doesn't. Particulars Intelligence runs in the background to help teams learn from each other. When one team gets better, every other team in Particulars gets better.
1Notice
See where the page and the work disagree.
Every two weeks Particulars compares what the team charter says with what the team actually did, and shows teams the gap with the evidence underneath it. No surveys, no impressions.
2Read
Start from the work, not a blank page.
Particulars can connect to the systems a team already uses, read them privately, and draft an accurate team charter in about a minute. Teammates can confirm what Particulars understood, and capture it as their first draft.
3Propose
Adjust daily to avoid big, expensive re-orgs.
When Particulars notices something that seems off, it proposes a change to the team for it to consider. Little tweaks every day compound across the organization.
4Settle
You make the call. Everyone sees why.
Particulars bounces changes and choices against decision rights and a shared, whole-company decision record. This makes every future decision better, easier, and faster.
5Check
A few weeks on, find out if it helped.
Particulars comes back to the decisions you track, and compares them to real outcomes. No more guessing about whether the re-org worked.
The model
The org chart shows reporting. The network shows work.
Charters link to each other through the roles, rights and mentions they share. Put enough of them together and you can see how work really moves, across reporting lines nobody drew.
Universal. Who reports to whom. Nothing about who decides, who depends on whom, or where work gets stuck.
Particular. Who executes, who’s consulted, who’s told, and which measure two teams share. Drawn from the charters themselves, so it changes when they do.
People and agents
Give agents a job description.
An agent with access to everything and a job description of “be helpful” isn’t a teammate. In Particulars an agent fills a real role on a real team, and the charter becomes its operating instructions.
- NamedEvery agent appears on the charter by name, in the role it fills, next to the person it works with.
- BoundedIt reads the team’s decision rights as its instructions, and is told to raise a conflict rather than pick a side.
- Read-onlyIt reads its charter through its own token. It can’t change the charter, and the team sees when it last read.
- RevocableA charter editor can revoke it at any time. Its token stops working on the next request.
Sources and history
Reads what you choose. Keeps what you decide.
Particulars doesn’t replace Slack or Drive. With your permission it reads only the parts you connect, respecting personal and team privacy, and keeps a restorable history of every change to the model, with who made it.
What it reads
- SlackLive todayChannel history from the channels each team picks. Drafts charters, finds decisions, notices when roles and focus change.
- Google DriveLive todayFolder metadata and editor activity as review evidence. File contents and email addresses stay out.
- LinearComing nextProjects and issues compared with stated responsibilities: where work piles up, and where ownership is unclear.
What it keeps
Every save is a version with a named author and a readable diff. Restore any earlier version in one click.
Your first team, drafted in about 90 seconds.
Connect Slack, pick the channels, and read a draft charter you can argue with. Add it to the organization once it looks right to you and your team.