Circles
A Circle is a self-organizing team dedicated to a specific purpose.- Nesting: Circles can contain sub-circles (e.g., a “Product” circle might contain “Design” and “Engineering” sub-circles).
- Autonomy: Each circle operates with autonomy over its own domain, modifying its internal roles and policies as needed, provided it doesn’t violate the constraints of its parent circle.
Creating a Circle
To create a circle, you generally submit a governance Proposal. The proposal defines:- Name: e.g., “Customer Success”
- Purpose: The high-level objective of the circle.
- Domain: The specific assets or processes the circle exclusively controls.
- Accountabilities: The ongoing activities the circle is expected to perform.
Roles
Within a circle, the work is broken down into Roles. A Role is a distinct set of accountabilities and a defined purpose. For example, within the Marketing circle, you might have roles like “Social Media Lead”, “Copywriter”, and “Event Coordinator”.Role Assignments
Once a Role is defined, you assign Members to it.- A member can hold multiple roles across different circles.
- Assignments are not permanent employment contracts; they are fluid. If a role is no longer needed, it is deleted. If a person leaves a role, the role remains, ready for a new assignee.
Core Roles: Depending on your methodology configuration, Corgtex supports specific core roles (e.g.,
FACILITATOR, LEAD_LINK, REP_LINK) that have specialized permissions within the circle.Visibility via the Workforce Graph
The structure of your Circles, Roles, and the Members assigned to them make up the foundation of your Workforce Graph. Because this is all tracked explicitly in the Corgtex database:- The AI instantly knows exactly who is responsible for what.
- If someone asks, “Who handles European vendor contracts?”, the agent parses the role accountabilities and routes the user directly to the correct person.
- There is no ambiguity about ownership.