{
  "x-comment": [
    "The roles Gord Holdings declares, and the minimal form of its AAO charter.",
    "",
    "The parent of the group that authors this standard had not implemented it.",
    "That was the first finding of the August 2026 architecture audit and this",
    "file is the answer to it.",
    "",
    "A holding company does five things and no more. It allocates capital, it",
    "records what it owns, it decides which verticals to enter, it appoints the",
    "people who run them, and it says publicly and accurately what it holds.",
    "Everything else in the estate is done by an operating group.",
    "",
    "Four families are deliberately empty: product, inbound, conversion and",
    "retention. The parent sells nothing and acquires no users; the operating",
    "groups do both. An empty family is honest, and inventing a role to fill one",
    "restages the inflation this standard exists to stop.",
    "",
    "Names follow the AAO naming standard: the function performed, never a",
    "codename, a vendor, or a task. See https://flashyos.com/standard."
  ],
  "aao": "0.1",
  "name": "Gord Holdings",
  "slug": "gord-holdings",
  "description": "The family office and principal holding company above the group: the bank, the ecosystem, and their properties. Permanent capital, no exit horizon.",
  "accountableTo": "michael@gda.capital",
  "escalation": "allocation",
  "repositories": [
    {
      "name": "gord-holdings",
      "url": "github.com/FlashyLabs/gold-holdings",
      "x-note": "The repository name is a typo of the domain it serves and is kept as-is: renaming it would break the Vercel project binding. The charter, the handshake and this site all say gord-holdings, which is the org slug.",
      "default": true,
      "holds": [
        "charter",
        "handshake",
        "estate-register",
        "governance",
        "parent-site"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "roles": [
    {
      "name": "allocation",
      "family": "finance",
      "purpose": "Decides where the group's capital goes, and declines the rest. Holds the standard formation terms 4.Ventures offers and the mandate Macabee Partners acquires under.",
      "measure": "Capital deployed against the allocation policy published on gord.capital, and the share deployed outside it",
      "capabilities": [
        "allocate",
        "decline",
        "set-terms",
        "review"
      ],
      "humanApprovalAtOrAbove": "LOW",
      "worksIn": [
        "gord-holdings"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "ownership",
      "family": "finance",
      "purpose": "Maintains the register of what the group owns, in what instrument, at what percentage, and since when. The cap table is a record here before it is a spreadsheet anywhere.",
      "measure": "Positions in the register with a named instrument and date, as a share of positions held",
      "capabilities": [
        "record",
        "supersede",
        "reconcile"
      ],
      "humanApprovalAtOrAbove": "LOW",
      "worksIn": [
        "gord-holdings"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "formation",
      "family": "operations",
      "purpose": "Decides which verticals the group enters and which it closes. Forms operating groups, not companies — company formation belongs to the vertical Ventures arms.",
      "measure": "Verticals opened and closed against the gate: a vertical earns a Ventures arm on deal flow and a Capital arm on a balance sheet",
      "capabilities": [
        "form",
        "retire",
        "merge"
      ],
      "humanApprovalAtOrAbove": "LOW",
      "worksIn": [
        "gord-holdings"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "appointment",
      "family": "operations",
      "purpose": "Decides who is accountable for each entity in the group, and records it. Every organisation in the estate names a reachable human or it does not launch.",
      "measure": "Entities in the estate with a named accountable human, as a share of entities — the target is every one",
      "capabilities": [
        "appoint",
        "replace",
        "record"
      ],
      "humanApprovalAtOrAbove": "LOW",
      "worksIn": [
        "gord-holdings"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "disclosure",
      "family": "risk",
      "purpose": "Says publicly and accurately what the group owns, including realisations, write-offs and positions that are unresolved. A stale disclosure is a specific false statement about our own interest.",
      "measure": "Published positions carrying an as-at date and matching the register, as a share of published positions",
      "capabilities": [
        "publish",
        "correct",
        "supersede"
      ],
      "humanApprovalAtOrAbove": "MEDIUM",
      "worksIn": [
        "gord-holdings"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "conformance",
      "family": "risk",
      "purpose": "Checks that every entity in the estate carries a charter, a handshake, a directory fragment and an accountable human — and that this repository is not the exception.",
      "measure": "Repositories emitting a valid directory fragment, as a share of repositories in the estate",
      "capabilities": [
        "validate",
        "report",
        "block"
      ],
      "humanApprovalAtOrAbove": "HIGH",
      "worksIn": [
        "gord-holdings"
      ]
    }
  ]
}