Standards
Plain-language guidance explaining what to document, why it matters, and what should be avoided.
About
Practical documentation standards for small organizations.
Small Organization Records Framework is an early public project developing plain-language standards and templates for organizational records, responsibility clarity, access references, continuity notes, incident timelines, and review routines.
Why this exists
Small organizations often run on memory.
Many small organizations depend on informal knowledge. One person may know where the domain is registered, another may know which vendor handles billing, and another may know where important records are stored. That can work for a while, but it becomes fragile when people, services, or circumstances change.
This project exists to make practical documentation easier to start, safer to maintain, and more understandable for organizations that do not have formal operations teams.
What we publish
The project focuses on essential documentation areas.
The first standards and templates cover vendor inventories, access references, responsibility records, continuity notes, incident timeline notes, and review routines.
Templates
Free practical templates that help organizations begin documenting essential information.
Learning resources
Introductory guides for people who are new to organizational documentation and safe recordkeeping habits.
Project boundaries
General educational resources, not professional advice.
The materials published by Small Organization Records Framework are general educational resources. They are not legal, tax, financial, insurance, cybersecurity, compliance, employment, governance, or incident-response advice.
Organizations should use qualified professional guidance when their situation requires it. This project provides documentation structure, not a substitute for professional review.
Project status
Early public draft.
Small Organization Records Framework is currently in an early draft stage. The standards, templates, examples, and pages may change as the project is reviewed, clarified, and improved.
The long-term goal is to provide useful, accessible documentation standards that can be adapted by small organizations around the world.