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Operations & management

Org structure, goals, policies and processes — how the company is run.

About this template

The regular-management layer: who owns what (org structure & RACI), the goals and KPIs everyone is driving, the policy and knowledge base, and the business processes that turn strategy into repeatable work.

What's included

  • Org structure & responsibility matrix (RACI)
  • Company → team → role OKRs and KPIs
  • Policy & standards registry with acknowledgements
  • Business processes, steps and bottlenecks

What Plank handles

The everyday jobs this workspace hands off to Plank — you review the finished work, not the busywork.

  • Building the org structure

    From a conversation with the owner the agent draws the whole structure: roles, reporting lines, goals, functions and KPIs — right in this table.

    “Describe the company — I’ll build the org structure”
  • Finding uncovered functions

    Goes through every role and finds work no one is formally responsible for — like marketing and DevOps here.

    “Which functions does no one own?”
  • Keeping links current

    Keeps the role↔employee link current across new hires, transfers and departures.

    “Who’s on accounts now?”
  • Matching KPIs to goals

    Suggests a measurable metric for a role’s goal and checks that KPIs aren’t duplicated across roles.

    “What KPI does the project manager have?”
  • Company function map

    Breaks all the agency’s work into functions and highlights duplicates and gaps between roles.

    “Break the company’s work into functions”
  • Role profiles

    Generates a role description — goal, area of responsibility, functions and requirements — for hiring and onboarding.

    “Build a profile for the engineering team lead”
  • Hiring plan for growth

    Looks at workload and goals and advises which roles to open next as you scale.

    “Who to hire next when doubling in size?”
  • Responsibility matrix

    Builds a RACI for key processes — who’s responsible, who participates, who to inform.

    “Build a RACI for project delivery”
  • Overload check

    Finds people juggling too many roles and roles where responsibility is blurred.

    “Who’s overloaded with roles?”
  • Delegation suggestions

    Suggests what to take off the director and managers and who to hand it to as the team grows.

    “What to delegate from the director?”
  • Onboarding link

    Ties a new role to an onboarding checklist, access and documents so every start follows the template.

    “Set up onboarding for a new role”
  • Structure report

    Prepares a summary for the owner: headcount, open roles, risk areas and structure changes over the period.

    “Compile an org structure report”
  • Collecting KPIs from exports

    Pulls numbers from bank statements, CRM, analytics and other Plank tables and updates the period’s metrics itself.

    “Update the metrics for the week”
  • Explaining deviations

    Writes a weekly note: where we’re behind, by how much and why — backed by numbers, not gut feel.

    “Why is the sales KR behind?”
  • Setting OKRs

    Suggests goals and key results for next quarter, based on actual outcomes and trends.

    “Suggest OKRs for Q4”
  • Goal cascade

    Links the company goal to department and role goals and shows where the contribution sags or is duplicated.

    “Link the department goals to the company goal”
  • KR drafts

    Turns vague “improve” and “increase” into measurable key results with target values.

    “Make this goal measurable”
  • Attainment forecast

    From the current pace it estimates whether a KR will hit target by quarter-end and flags what’s falling short.

    “Will we reach 18M?”
  • Status traffic light

    Assigns “on track / at risk / off track” by the rules and keeps statuses current without manual coloring.

    “Update the status lights for the goals”
  • Early warnings

    Notices when a metric moves the wrong way two periods in a row and warns the owner early, not at quarter-end.

    “What should I flag in the metrics?”
  • Collecting updates

    Reminds goal owners to log progress before the check-in and gathers replies over WhatsApp or email.

    “Collect OKR updates by Friday”
  • Quarter review report

    Compiles a final OKR review for the quarter: what was achieved, what wasn’t, lessons learned — a meeting-ready document.

    “Compile the OKR report for Q3”
  • Linking goals and people

    Matches role goals to employees from HR and highlights overload and people without goals.

    “Who has no goals for the quarter?”
  • Live dashboard

    Keeps this dashboard current: any change in the data shows up immediately, no manual report rebuilding.

    “Refresh the goals dashboard”
  • Process documentation

    Listens as you describe the work in plain words and breaks it into ordered steps, each with its outcome — a ready-made playbook.

    "Describe how we take a lead — build the process"
  • Assigning RACI

    Assigns a responsible, accountable, consulted and informed party to every step — and flags steps with no owner.

    "Who is responsible for approving the proposal?"
  • Launching an instance

    Runs every instance of a process: creates tasks per step, sets deadlines and hands off to the next person in the chain.

    "Launch onboarding for client Camomile LLC"
  • Finding bottlenecks

    Looks at which steps runs get stuck on the longest and highlights the jams on the dashboard.

    "Where do we get stuck most often?"
  • Reminders for owners

    Pings the step's responsible person as the deadline approaches and reminds the accountable person that a decision is expected.

    "Remind whoever is holding up code review"
  • Escalating stalled steps

    If a step sits longer than expected, it raises it to the process owner or a manager — so nothing falls through the cracks.

    "Escalate anything stuck more than 3 days"
  • Handoffs between people

    At each step boundary it passes context to the next owner — what's done and what's needed from them.

    "Hand the task off from frontend to QA"
  • Checklists & templates

    Prepares a checklist, brief or document template for a step so the owner doesn't build it from scratch.

    "Make a release acceptance checklist"
  • Balancing workload

    Sees who is overloaded with steps and suggests reassignments when someone is on leave or swamped.

    "Who has the most steps right now?"
  • Process status

    Pulls together a summary of every running instance — what's at which step and what's slowing down — in time for the standup.

    "Put together a process status for Monday"
  • Compliance audit

    Checks how the work actually ran against the playbook and flags skipped steps and workarounds.

    "Check whether everyone went through approval"
  • Updating playbooks

    When a process changes, it edits the steps and RACI and keeps the description current — no redrawing diagrams by hand.

    "Add a security review step to the release"
  • Policy writing

    Writes a ready policy from your description of the process — with structure, steps, roles and owners.

    "Describe the process — I’ll write the policy"
  • Policy from a recording

    Transcribes a call recording or screencast and turns the process walkthrough into a formatted document.

    "Make a policy from the standup recording"
  • Quiz generation

    Builds a test on the policy to check that the employee has actually absorbed it.

    "Create a test on the sales policy"
  • Grading employee answers

    Grades open test answers by meaning, not by keywords, and assigns the result.

    "Grade Aruzhan’s onboarding answers"
  • Outdated-doc tracking

    Tracks each document’s review date and warns in advance when it’s time to update.

    "Which policies need updating?"
  • Acknowledgement tracking

    Tracks who has read a policy and who hasn’t — by document and by person.

    "Who hasn’t acknowledged the new policy?"
  • Acknowledgement reminders

    Reminds those who haven’t read a new or updated policy — in chat or by email.

    "Remind those who haven’t read it"
  • Answers from the knowledge base

    Answers employees’ work questions straight from the policies, with a link to the right clause.

    "How do I process a refund under the contract?"
  • Updates on change

    Rewrites a policy when the process, pricing or law changes, and bumps the version.

    "Update the policy for the new pricing"
  • Conflict detection

    Compares policies against each other and finds duplicates and rules that contradict one another.

    "Are there any conflicts between policies?"
  • Reading plan for new hires

    Assembles a list of policies for a new employee’s role and the order to study them.

    "Build a reading plan for a frontend developer"
  • Quick reference

    Turns a long policy into a short cheat-sheet summary with the key steps.

    "Make a cheat sheet for the deployment policy"

See it working

This is what it looks like in Plank — real dashboards with data. Everything is interactive: drag cards, check off tasks. Sample data.

Org structure — Who owns what · RACI matrix

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