Creating documents
✍️ Creating Documents
"From policies to patents, everything starts as a document."
Brainframe gives you 100+ industry-specific types to build a living knowledge base.
At Brainframe, everything is treated as a document.
This simple yet powerful approach means you can manage policies, risks, assets, or even supplier contacts — all with the same consistent features.
Most document types include:
- 📋 Unique properties
- 🗂 Predefined templates
- 🆔 Unique identifiers
- ✅ Best-practice configurations
This broad vocabulary helps you describe your environment clearly while keeping your workspace structured and audit-ready.
1️⃣ How to Create a Document
- Click the New button.
- Select the appropriate document type from the dropdown.
- Start working with its template and properties.
2️⃣ Document Categories & Examples
Brainframe groups its document types into categories, helping you find the right one faster.
🔧 Operational
- Action to take
- Audit report
- Core Business Service
- Corrective or preventive action (CAPA)
🛡 Security
- Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
- CIA Risk (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability)
- ISMS Management Review Meeting
- Policy / Procedure
🔐 Privacy
- Controller(s) of the data
- Data processing activity
- Data processing agreement (DPA)
- Privacy objective KPI
💻 Digital Assets
- Backend system
- Cloud infrastructure
- Cloud SaaS product/service
- Database
🖥 Software & Web
- Mobile app
- Software
- Software firewall
- Source code repository
🏢 Physical Assets
- Building, office, or room
- IoT device
- IT room / Datacenter / Cloud provider
- Physical asset
⚖ Legal
- Intellectual property
- Legal risk
- Non-disclosure agreement (NDA)
- Patent, contract, certificate, proof of ownership
👥 People & Organizations
- Authority contact
- Business risk
- Consultant
- Contact person
3️⃣ Best Practices
- 📄 Pick the right document type – It improves search, reporting, and dependency mapping.
- 🔄 Leverage templates – Start with prefilled structures to save time.
- 👥 Assign ownership – Add responsible people or roles via properties.
- 🛡 Map dependencies early – Connect assets, risks, and policies as you create them.
🎯 Visual Checklist
- [x] Clicked New to create a document
- [x] Selected the correct document type
- [x] Used category filters (Operational, Security, Privacy, etc.)
- [ ] Added unique properties for ownership & classification
- [ ] Linked dependencies where relevant
Updated on: 11/09/2025
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