// Operations as Code, defined
Operations as Code™ is your business, written down so your AI can run it. What it runs on today, where the work lives and where it is heading go into plain files in one shared folder, kept in git. Your AI reads them before it answers, so it works from your business, not a guess. OpsCode teaches it, and the standard is free.
By Jimmy Farquhar · updated 27 Oct 2026
// How it works
Steps 0 to 2 are questions. Step 3 is hands-on. Steps 4 and 5 connect it up. Nothing is moved, so nothing that works today breaks.
What you wrote down about yourself is already there, so it never asks again.
What runs the business. List it. Don't install or connect anything yet.
Who does what. Then the roles you'll need next.
Every place your files live: downloads, the desktop, a Drive, someone else's laptop. Then copy them into the business folder. Copy, never move, so nothing that works today breaks.
Email, calendar and files, so your AI can read them.
The one shared copy, with every change dated. Everyone else joins from their own laptop.
// What you get
Your AI can read it, and your team can check it. Not sure where something goes? If two people can disagree about it, it goes in context-core. If you can go and look, it goes in systems.
The number that matters is how many jobs are still done by hand. The register in systems/ counts it, and the whole point is to bring it down.
// Where it fits
Operations as Code is about one business. Self as Code is about you, and comes first. Run two businesses and you do Operations as Code twice.
This page
The other half
You choose, one line at a time, what each business gets from your Self as Code. Only the decision goes across, never your reasons. Anything you don't choose stays private.
// Real examples
On 25 September 2026, nine business owners wrote their businesses down at the AWS office in Auckland: where each one is going, what good looks like and where the gaps are.
OpsCode runs on it too. On 8 August 2026 a script read our own files and pulled everyone in them into one list for our CRM: 423 people, 20 companies and 435 email addresses, with no typing.
See how we built the CRM// Fair questions
No. In IT, operations as code means writing the jobs that run servers and networks as code. OpsCode uses the words for the whole business, from how you sell to where you are going, written in plain words. You don't write any code.
No. Most of the people we teach have never written code and never will. The files are plain words, and your AI does the heavy lifting.
We teach it with Claude Code, which reads the folder before it answers. The files are plain text in git, so they also open in any text editor. Delete every tool and you still have your business, written down.
Yes. The OaC File Format, the open standard the folder follows, is free under CC BY 4.0, and the starter folder is public on GitHub. You pay for your own AI subscription. A workshop teaches it with a coach.
At an OpsCode workshop. It is day two of the two-day workshop and the afternoon of the one-day workshop. Rooms are on sale in Melbourne and Christchurch. Every price is on the prices page.
// Do it with us
Operations as Code is the second part of every OpsCode workshop, straight after Self as Code. You leave with the folder built and your AI reading it.
