RACI is a project-management acronym standing for Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed. Workplace jargon for clarifying who does what on a project. If your kid uses it at work they are doing planning work. Not slang, not concerning. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in.
RACI
Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed.
ˈreɪ.siDocumented since 1980s1980sGen Xhistorical355 viewsLast reviewed Jun 29, 2026＋ Add a definition
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Wikipedia: Paul Raci
Paul Raci (; born April 7, 1948) is an American character actor.
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RACI is a pretty common acronym for anyone doing project management professionally.
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Wikipedia: Responsibility assignment matrix
A responsibility assignment matrix, RACI matrix (responsible, accountable, consulted and informed matrix; ) or linear responsibility chart, is a project management technique that describes the responsibilities of vari…
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# Responsibility assignment matrix Responsibility assignment matrix Tool used for project and business process management [](https:…
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#1·Apr 24, 2026Global
Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed. A matrix specifying who does what on a project. Deeply corporate; occasionally useful. "Someone make a RACI before this goes sideways" is the cry of every PM watching a multi-team project drift. The matrix is half discipline, half performance art.
"Someone make a RACI before this goes sideways."
Origin: Modern corporate / Agile / HR vocabulary.
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RACI is a project-management acronym standing for Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed. Workplace jargon for clarifying who does what on a project. If your kid uses it at work they are doing planning work. Not slang, not concerning. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in.
For ESL learners
RACI is a workplace acronym (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed) used in project management. Always pronounced as a word, "ray-see." Use only in business and project contexts. Formal equivalent: "a responsibility assignment matrix." Common non-native mistake: confusing it with similar acronyms (DACI, RAPID). In writing, you can use "a RACI chart" or "a RACI matrix"; the acronym itself acts as an adjective. Read or listen to the word in context several times before trying it yourself; the right register is harder to learn than the dictionary meaning.
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“Paul Raci (; born April 7, 1948) is an American character actor.”
“If an [internal link](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Raci&namespace=0) led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.”
“RACI is a pretty common acronym for anyone doing project management professionally.”
“A responsibility assignment matrix, RACI matrix (responsible, accountable, consulted and informed matrix; ) or linear responsibility chart, is a project management technique that describes the responsibilities of various stakeholders in completing tasks or deliverables.”
“# Responsibility assignment matrix Responsibility assignment matrix Tool used for project and business process management [](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RACI.png) Example of a responsibility assignment matrix.”
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#2·May 3, 2026Global
Raci Şaşmaz (born 1973), Turkish producer, writer and actor
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#3·May 3, 2026Global
Raci, a village in Negomir Commune, Gorj County, Romania
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#4·May 3, 2026Global
RACI matrix (responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed), roles in project tasks or deliverables
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#5·May 3, 2026Global
Raći, a village near Podgorica, Montenegro
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#6·May 3, 2026IN
Raci (ethnonym), or Rascians, a name used to designate Serbs in the Middle Ages and early modern times
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Slang is read by different audiences for very different reasons. The For parents view re-explains the term in plain, non-judgemental language so a caregiver can understand what their child means without needing the surrounding subculture. The For English learners view focuses on register (when it's safe to use), formal alternatives, and common mistakes — what a textbook won't teach you.
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- raci check81%
A RACI check is the moment in a project meeting when someone stops the conversation to establish who's actually Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed before everyone charges ahead doing duplicate work or stepping on each other's toes. It's often done mid-chaos, when it becomes obvious nobody agreed who owns the thing. In modern work culture, calling a RACI check has become shorthand for demanding basic organizational clarity from a team that has been winging accountability structures for longer than is professionally advisable.
- raci mode79%
RACI mode is when someone at work suddenly gets extremely precise about accountability structures — assigning every task a clear owner, demanding documented sign-offs, and refusing to let anything proceed without an explicit responsible party named. It kicks in after a project collapses due to nobody owning anything, or when a manager gets burned enough times to stop assuming shared responsibility means actual responsibility. Going into RACI mode can save a project or irritate everyone on the team depending on how badly things were going before.
- raci maxxing78%
The act of applying RACI accountability matrices to every possible situation to an absurd degree — going maximum-effort on organizational clarity long past the point of usefulness or sanity. Someone RACI maxxing has built nested RACI charts for their personal goals, their Netflix watchlist, and their own internal decision-making process. It is the ultimate expression of corporate-brained optimization that has fully escaped its professional context and colonized everyday life.
- peak raci76%
The apex moment of over-engineered accountability culture — when RACI thinking reaches its most absurd, self-defeating extreme. Peak RACI is the all-hands where someone presents a 47-column accountability matrix for deciding what font to use in the company newsletter. It's the point at which a useful tool has become a parody of itself, and everyone in the room can see it except the person presenting. Often invoked as a knowing acknowledgment between colleagues that things have gotten truly out of hand.