Your Clear RACI

What a Clear RACI is

The named matrices are conventions, not laws. RACI is four letters that crystallized out of decades of responsibility charting, and RASCI, CAIRO, and the rest each add one letter to close one gap. When none of the thirteen fits your work exactly, the right move is to build the set that does. A Clear RACI is that set: a matrix whose letters match no named variant.

The name is honest labeling. A grid with your own letters is not a RACI, and calling it one would misdescribe it to everyone you hand it to. So this site gives it its own name and treats it as a first-class result, not a fallback.

Your letters still come from the same curated dictionary as every named variant. Each one carries a fixed meaning, a full name, and a per-row rule, so a Clear RACI stays as rigorous as the matrix it replaces.

How to make it clear

• Keep one owner per item. Whatever your letters, exactly one role per row should carry final accountability. Splitting ownership is the failure these matrices exist to prevent.
• Separate doing from owning. The person who does the work and the person on the hook for it are often different people. Give each a letter, and never let one letter mean both.
• Add a letter only for a real gap. Every extra letter is a cell someone has to fill in, argue over, and keep current. The lightest set that names your problem is the right one.
• Mark deliberate absence. A blank cell means "not filled in yet". When a role is deliberately left out, say so with the "-" Not involved marker, so silence never reads as an oversight.
• Rename letters, not meanings. You can change the letter a concept shows, but its meaning stays fixed. If two letters in your set start to blur into each other, remove one.
• Take the way back if it appears. If your set drifts into matching a standard matrix, the generator says so and offers the switch. A named variant is easier to explain to a new team, so take it when it fits.

Fill it in, then export it

The template generator autosaves a working draft in your browser, and nothing you enter leaves it. Save the finished matrix as a .matcty file and load it back anytime. When it is ready, pick a theme and export it to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PNG, or PDF, so it lands in front of your team looking finished.