Adam Horne

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2026

Oct 8

Published a resource8 Oct

Menopause Support Policy [Notion Template]

We created this Menopause Support policy template to help People teams who want a starting point for generating their own. This has been inspired by real examples from companies like PayCaptain, Human Made, Juro and others.

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Aug 1

Published a resource1 Aug

The Culture Compatibility Index

Score how Company A and Company B actually operate across strategy, leadership, people systems, and culture for M&A execution. See where you align, where you diverge, and what belongs on the integration roadmap.

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Aug 1

Published a resource1 Aug

The Transparent Job Advert Template

A template with real, curated examples we love from other companies' job adverts. Open, transparent, and great at helping candidates to opt out as well.

TemplatePlaybook44

Aug 1

Published a resource1 Aug

The Careers Site Playbook

What great looks like on a transparent careers site: video, story, culture, DEI, hiring process, ways of working, and benefits, with examples that we love (& don't love) from real companies.

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Aug 1

Published a resource1 Aug

Proving ROI on People Initiatives

A care package for quantifying people work, communicating value to leadership, and securing the resources to execute.

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Aug 1

Published a resource1 Aug

The AI Adoption Cookbook

A curated selection of AI adoption practices from companies that publish how they start, mandate, gamify, embed, and learn from mistakes.

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Aug 1

Published a resource1 Aug

The Performance Cookbook

A curated selection of performance practices from companies that publish how they run cadence, ratings, manager remits, feedback, and consequences.

Aug 1

Published a resource1 Aug

The Org Design Cookbook

A curated selection of org design practices from companies that publish how they structure teams, manage (or do not), size headcount, and weave AI into the operating system.

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Aug 1

Published a resource1 Aug

The Hiring Cookbook

A curated selection of hiring practices from companies that publish how they attract, screen, and close talent. Remix job ads, sourcing, screening, interviews, work trials, and offers into your own approach.

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Aug 1

Published a resource1 Aug

The Compensation Cookbook

A curated selection of compensation practices from companies that publish how they pay. Remix philosophy, transparency, negotiation stance, raises, equity, and benefits into your own approach.

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Aug 1

Published a resource1 Aug

The Onboarding Cookbook

A curated selection of onboarding practices and fully documented company approaches. Remix practices from open culture companies into your own Day Minus through Month 3 experience.

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Jul 23

Published a resource23 Jul

A Guide To The EU Pay Transparency Directive

A simple guide for employers with employees in the EU, helping you understand what you actually need to know: the six requirements, the reporting thresholds, and where the law stands country by country.

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Jul 23

Published a resource23 Jul

EU Pay Transparency Directive Diagnostic

A five-question diagnostic for Directive (EU) 2023/970: what applies to your headcount, where each country sits, and what to fix first when it comes to pay transparency in the EU.

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Jul 23

Published a resource23 Jul

Open Org's Open Culture Framework

This is Open Org's 36-area transparency framework which underpinned our accreditation and became a blueprint for org-wide transparency for a lot of folks. It helps you assess your org-wide transparency across 36 critical culture components, surfacing gaps and opportunities to improve, and giving you real-life examples and ideas from other companies.

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Jul 20

Published a resource20 Jul

Values Evolution Playbook

Open Org's 7-Step values evolution playbook, to help companies take their values beyond being words on the wall. A great resource to help you properly think about how you animate and operationalise your company values.

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Jul 20

Published a resource20 Jul

Transformation Playbook

Open Org's Transformation Playbook, inspired by Kotter's change model, adapted by us for startup specific context.

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Jul 20

Published a resource20 Jul

Transparency Charter Template

Open Org's updated transparency charter template; perfect for anyone wanting to document their approach to what they do, and don't share as a business by default to help set and manage expectations and built trust in a more transparent way

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Jul 20

Published a resource20 Jul

Compensation Philosophy Template

Open Org's updated Compensation Philosophy template (2026) created using inspiration from 12+ of our favourite open-sourced examples from other companies.

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Jul 20

Published a resource20 Jul

Communication Operating Models

A quick diagnostic created by Open Org to help you determine which operating models work best for your business context when it comes to communication.

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Jul 16

Published a resource16 Jul

Open Org's Culture Heatmap Diagnostic

Open Org's interactive Culture Heatmap- A diagnostic tool for Leaders, people teams and managers to use to help them surface, prioritise, and fix cultural health problems across their teams.

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Jun 19

Published a resource19 Jun

Surviving DSARs

A simple 1-pager built to help People teams navigate the operational moments surrounding DSAR requests. Note: The legal mechanics of DSARs (what they are, time limits, exemptions, fees) can shift, so always check the ICO website for the current legal position. What follows is a mini-playbook for navigating the moment as a People Leader, not a legal reference.

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Jun 17

Published a resource17 Jun

Guidance During Grief

Doist's handbook page on helping employees navigating grief

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May 11

Published a resource11 May

Reasonable Adjustments Policy [TEMPLATE]

This is a reasonable adjustments policy template People teams can take and use as an accelerator to building their own. There's a downloadable word version included too, alongside the Notion-friendly version

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Mar 12

Published a resource12 Mar

Offboarding Guide With Company Examples

We created this handy off-boarding guide for one of Slack community members using Open Org's AI to gather real examples from other companies, and we're open-sourcing it for others to use too ❤️. It includes real examples of how other companies like Posthog, Gitlab, Sourcegraph and Atlassian approach off-boarding process & communication.

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Jan 27

Published a resource27 Jan

Example Compensation Philosophy Template

This is an editable compensation philosophy template built by us at Open Org, inspired by our own template, and also other best-in-class examples like Juro, Posthog and Whereby. You can tailor this to your business & context in minutes by copying the prompt in the resource page, and pasting into Gandalf AI ✨ (Instructions in page) - Good luck!

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Jan 27

Published a resource27 Jan

AI Usage Policy - Example Template

This is an example AI Usage Policy template open-sourced by Open Org, created using Gandalf AI ✨. You can tailor this to your own context in minutes by following the steps on the resource page itself :)

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2025

Oct 9

Published a resource9 Oct

Roadie The People Roadmapping Custom GPT

Built by the team at Open Org, now you can use Roadie to build a People Roadmap that genuinely impacts both business goals & your peoples needs (Note: Needs GPT Plus subscription)

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Oct 8

Published a resource8 Oct

People Roadmap Template

This is a super simple kanban style people & culture roadmap template we built on Notion for startup people teams.

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Jul 29

Published a resource29 Jul

People Team Charter Template

We built this Team Charter template to give People teams a launchpad to building their own. This can be easily adapted for other teams in your business too though 🙂

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Jul 10

Published a resource10 Jul

Open Org's Internal Comms Blueprint

We built this Internal Comms Blueprint to support People teams in building out an effective comms cadence & framework to keep people informed and engaged with updates, initiatives, closing the loop on surveys, and key events using things like Loom, Slack, and email. This has been specifically created with the People team in mind, but can be easily adapted and applied to org-wide comms too.

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Jun 27

Published a resource27 Jun

Scrummy- The People Project Prioritizer

People teams find it SUPER hard to prioritize work, push back and say no and communicate capacity and workload to others. 👋 Meet Scrummy... he will: 👉 Understand your current total capacity 👉 Breakdown your projects & tasks, and help you prioritise 👉 Map out a delivery plan (or options) you can present back to CEO/Business to give visibility on capacity, workload, and also use as a proof-point for lack of capacity Useful if you are: 👉 Struggling to visualise / map out your current workload vs capacity 👉 Struggling to priortize your work & projects 👉 Struggling to push back / say no to others without a proof point

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May 23

Published a resource23 May

Open Org's 1:1 Agenda Template

A lightweight, performance-led 1:1 agenda template for reports and managers, built on Notion, by Open Org

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Apr 9

Published a resource9 Apr

Running Effective 1:1s [Notion Template]

This is a page from Open Org's Performance Playbook Template built on Notion, which might act as a handy template to build out your own documentation around how to run effective 1:1's in your org. It covers: 1. What 1:1s are here 2. Why we do them 3. Guidance on running 1:1s

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Apr 4

Published a resource4 Apr

The People & HR Global Events Calendar

Hey There!, We created this because we found ourselves losing track of all the incredible People & HR events that were happening all over the world…so thought it’d be cool to build an open-source calender folks could add events to; whether they’re running them themselves or just attending. Hope this helps! And please contribute to it if you know of any great events happening soon! Open Org

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Mar 31

Published a resource31 Mar

Open Org’s CultureOS Component Breakdown

Open Org's CultureOS: Your Operating System for How Work Gets Done At Open Org, we believe culture isn’t just vibes or values-on-a-wall — it’s the system of behaviours, decisions, and operational norms that shape how work actually gets done. It’s your operating system. Whether you're scaling from 30 to 300 or trying to align a fast-moving team, the CultureOS is designed to be practical, specific, and buildable — not fluffy. Below, we unpack each component of the CultureOS. For each, we break down what to think about, and what you can operationalise — so you can build culture like a product.

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Mar 31

Published a resource31 Mar

Open Org's Performance Playbook Template

We created this performance playbook template to provide inspiration to folks who want to build out their own. It includes sub-pages on 1:1's and Performance Recovery

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Feb 5

Published a resource5 Feb

Whereby's Open Employee Handbook

Whereby's Open Employee handbook, built on Notion, and housing some incredible pages that deep dive on things like career development & levelling, compensation, and flexible working

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Jan 31

Published a resource31 Jan

Authentic EVP & Employer Brand Blueprint

A 3 stage blueprint on the approach taken by Open Org when working with companies on EVP discovery and authentic employer brand.

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Jan 15

Published a resource15 Jan

Open Org's Compensation Philosophy Template

This template is for you to take and use to help you design & document your very own for your business. We’ve designed it with the hope that you are able to share it externally outside of your company to build trust when hiring, but you can use it for purely internal purposes if you need to. This is the product of our own experience, but also of looking at dozens of public examples from the likes of Juro, Whereby, Figures, Posthog and others which are linked at the bottom of this template.

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Jan 15

Published a resource15 Jan

Nebulab's Compensation Philosophy

Nebulab's public compensation philosophy on their open employee handbook. A great example of documenting how a company thinks about and approaches pay & compensation for employees

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Jan 15

Published a resource15 Jan