Launch — August 2026
Write the hard rule down before you need it.
ARH is a working library of governance frameworks for families, trustees, and owners — the clauses, tests, and minutes that hold a principled decision in place on the day it becomes inconvenient.
Built from real constitutions and real disputes. Written to be argued with, amended, and adopted.
Article 4
Employment of family members
What’s in the hub
Four kinds of document, each one usable in a meeting this month rather than filed for later.
ConstitutionsClause language
Article-by-article wording for councils, employment, dividends, and succession — with the reasoning kept beside the text, so a family can amend it knowingly instead of copying it blind.
Trustee testsBefore the vote
Short, repeatable checks a trustee can run before exercising a discretion, and cite afterwards. Designed for the ordinary decision, not the courtroom one.
Minutes & recordsTemplates
Formats that make a decision legible to a beneficiary reading it in fifteen years: what was considered, who was conflicted, and why the alternative was refused.
Conflict protocolsWhen it’s personal
What to do when the person with the interest is also the person with the vote — recusal, disclosure, and the narrow cases where neither is enough.
Families
Second generation and beyond, where goodwill has stopped being a governance system on its own.
Trustees & protectors
Professional and lay, carrying discretion that has to be justified long after the meeting ends.
Owners & family offices
Operators holding both a stake and a chair, and the advisers who sit between them.