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Small Organizations Records Framework.
A practical public documentation framework for small organizations that need clearer records for responsibilities, vendors, access references, continuity notes, incident timelines, and review routines.
Purpose
Helping small organizations document what matters.
Many small organizations rely on memory, informal habits, scattered accounts, and one or two key people who know how everything works. SORF provides plain-language records and templates that help make essential information easier to understand, review, and hand off.
Read the framework
Explore the official framework guidance for vendors, access references, responsibility records, continuity notes, incident timelines, and review routines.
Open framework filesUse the templates
View the official SORF template source files. These Markdown templates are designed to be copied, reviewed, adapted, and included in future release packages.
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Learn how adopters, pilot users, professional reviewers, educators, technical implementers, and institutional reviewers can contribute.
Read contribution guideFramework areas
Practical record areas for operational clarity.
SORF begins with records that many small organizations need, regardless of industry, country, or organizational structure.
Access References
Document where access is managed without recording passwords, API keys, recovery codes, private keys, seed phrases, or other secret values.
Read guidanceVendor Inventory
Maintain a clear list of vendors, services, subscriptions, tools, providers, and outside relationships the organization depends on.
Read guidanceResponsibility Records
Clarify who owns, maintains, reviews, and supports important records, services, vendors, systems, and recurring processes.
Read guidanceContinuity Notes
Preserve essential handoff context if a founder, owner, maintainer, director, board member, staff member, or key person becomes unavailable.
Read guidanceIncident Timeline
Record neutral timeline notes during outages, disruptions, vendor issues, access problems, communication errors, or operational incidents.
Read guidanceReview Routines
Keep documentation useful through simple, realistic review habits that match the organization’s size, capacity, and needs.
Read guidanceOfficial files
The source of truth is the SORF repository.
The website introduces the project. The official framework files, templates, examples, release notes, governance documents, and public development history are maintained in GitHub.
Official repository
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Open examplesRelease notes
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SORF improves through documented review.
SORF welcomes different kinds of contribution from different levels of experience. Feedback and proposed changes are handled through GitHub so review activity can remain traceable.
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Use GitHub Issues to submit clarity suggestions, safety concerns, template feedback, professional review notes, or general questions.
Go to IssuesChange review method
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Read methodReview record policy
Learn how SORF records feedback, contributor permissions, review IDs, decisions, and public review history.
Read policyImportant boundaries
SORF is not professional advice.
SORF is provided for educational and organizational planning purposes. It is not legal, tax, financial, accounting, insurance, cybersecurity, regulatory, compliance, or professional advice. SORF does not certify, audit, approve, or verify organizations.
Disclaimer
Read SORF’s educational boundaries and professional-advice limitations before using or adapting the framework.
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Read license overviewSecurity guidance
Read how to avoid submitting sensitive information and how to report safety concerns responsibly.
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