Taxonomy

A taxonomy is a hierarchical classification system that defines how your organisation groups, labels and navigates information through parent-child relationships — Project → Workflow → Task, or Organisation → Department → Role. It's the skeleton your ontology hangs on.

Decidr uses taxonomy to drive app page structure — menus, sections and blocks are all organised taxonomically, which means apps render consistently and predictably across every level of your organisation. Taxonomy also shapes how entity types are installed and linked. A new app doesn't just land in isolation; it slots into the right place in your organisational hierarchy, inheriting the relationships and context that already exist above and below it.

Without a taxonomy, information sprawls. The same concept gets categorised differently by different teams, navigation becomes guesswork, and reporting produces incompatible numbers because nobody agreed on how to group things. A well-structured taxonomy means your organisation can scale without losing coherence — new teams, new products and new workflows all slot into a structure that already makes sense.

A business adds a new product line. Because the taxonomy already defines how products relate to categories, workflows and owners, every new entity inherits the right structure automatically rather than requiring manual configuration:

• Product hierarchies that drive consistent categorisation across inventory, marketing and finance
• Workflow status categories that apps and views use to surface the right items at the right time
• Support queue classifications that route issues without manual triage rules

Taxonomy is the structure that lets your organisation grow without becoming a mess.