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Companies as neighborhoods

A Company is the biggest box in askTheodor — the team, work, and knowledge for one little business, all in one place.

What you’ll learn

  • What a Company contains and why you group workers into one.
  • How a Company shows up on the Village map.
  • When to spin up a second Company instead of stuffing everything into one.

A neighborhood on the map

Everything else — workers, tasks, goals, projects, routines, and a knowledge Library — lives inside a Company. On the Village map each Company reads as a neighborhood, and its workers are the residents who live there. Open one and you see only its things; work and knowledge never leak between Companies unless you choose to share.

You can have as many as you like. A solo consultant might keep one Company per client; a founder might run “Marketing”, “Engineering”, and “Ops” side by side.

What a Company holds

  1. Identity — a name, a one-line mission (“why we exist”), and an avatar. The mission isn’t decoration: it’s fed to manager workers as background when they hand out work, so delegation stays on-message.
  2. An optional client framing — set a “for {client}” name and the header re-frames as a client engagement. Handy for freelancers billing several clients from one app.
  3. An org chart, its own work, and its own knowledge — roles, tasks, goals, projects, routines, and a Library section, all scoped to that Company.

Recap

A Company is a self-contained team — a neighborhood holding its own people, work, and knowledge. Next, learn the house rules that steer every worker inside it.

➡️ Next: Company OS: brand, compliance, vendors