The parent
The apex: the balance sheet, the register, and the human accountable for every entity below.
The parent does four things and nothing else — decides which verticals the group enters, forms the arms that build in them, convenes the industries they compete in, and supplies the permanent capital. It sells no product and acquires no users, which is why four families in its own charter are deliberately empty.
Two things here cannot be delegated to an operating group: the balance sheet, and the record of who answers for what. Everything else the parent could in principle stop doing without the estate noticing.
The properties
- Gord Holdings ↗ The estate: what the group owns, how it is structured, and who is accountable for each part. Live
- Gord Capital The family office capital company. The mandate, the allocation policy, and what permanent capital makes possible. Building
- Gord Ventures Ventures that do not belong to an existing thesis. Where the group backs something before there is a vertical to put it in. Building
- Gord Group Held and pointed at the parent. Two parent identities halve the authority of both. Held
- Gord Properties The real-asset arm: property held on the balance sheet rather than through a fund, on the same permanent-capital terms as everything else the office owns. Building
The gate
Not applicable. The parent is the thing that operates the gates rather than a vertical that passes them.
A vertical earns its own Ventures arm when it has deal flow of its own, and a Capital arm when it has a balance sheet to allocate. Neither is granted at formation, and both are published on the roadmap so a partner can check whether the group applied its own rule.