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Overview

This repository is Allied’s definitive organisational handbook: how we govern, operate, and orient ourselves. The Org Repo is Allied’s definitive record for organisational knowledge: what is published here, in its agreed form and status, is what we treat as truth. It is validated and versioned in Git, not individual or shared workspaces. It is the named owner's responsibility to keep each section up to date.

Working materials support day-to-day work but are not definitive until they are promoted into this repository through the agreed process. Working materials may include files in shared drives, local drives or notebooks, conversation in chat, and drafts that are not yet published here.

AlliedGPT is grounded in this definitive content and is configured so draft or out-of-scope material is not treated as authoritative for operational answers. This means you can ask AlliedGPT about what Allied is, how Allied works or what Allied is doing, to supplement or replace reading the original policy.

The contributing section explains how to propose or publish changes — via the CMS, an assisted edit, or Git, depending on the size of the change and your tools. It also covers authoring rules: structure, IDs, front matter, tone, vocabulary for definitive vs working materials, and the rationale mirror.

Find your way​

We have some specific terminology to describe different aspects of Allied's operating model. This is explained in detail at [operating model link placeholder] but some key terms and concepts are explained briefly here.

  • Lenses — Different ways of looking at the organisation. Each lens is a major area of this handbook.

    • Strategy — Intent and direction
    • Systems — How the company is organised
    • Operations — Programme portfolio
    • Policy — Policy, procedures, and templates by domain
    • Guides — Practical how-tos
    • Governance — Decisions and delegations

  • Domains represent what sort of work something is. They are the high-level areas of the business where different types of work happen. Policy, procedures, and templates use common domain names so the policy stack lines up with those work areas. The definitive list and definition are Domains; policy documents for each domain sit under Policy.

  • Functions show accountability. Each function owns a defined set of outcomes and handoffs. They tell you who to engage for decisions and delivery. A function may be involved across multiple domains and programmes. Allied's functions are listed here.

  • What kind of work or control is this? → Domain.
  • Who owns this outcome? → Function

Strategy, systems, and operations

  • Strategy — Intent, direction, operating concepts
  • Systems — How the organisation works
  • Operations — Active portfolio map

Policy stack

Guides

  • Guides — Practical how-to documentation

Governance

Rationale