What is Orgonaut?

Orgonaut is a planning platform for organisation design.

It helps you answer one practical question: if we change structure, staffing, or allocation, what happens to cost and delivery capacity before we commit that change to Live?

Who it is for

Orgonaut is typically used by:

Product and engineering leaders planning team design
Operations and HR teams maintaining accurate organisational structure
Finance partners reviewing cost impact of structural change
Senior decision-makers comparing options before committing

The main jobs Orgonaut supports

Job to be done	What you do in Orgonaut	Outcome
Build a reliable view of today	Import your org and clean up details	A trusted Live view
Understand who sits where	Model actors, teams, departments, and placements	Clear ownership and reporting lines
Test change safely	Create scenarios and model edits	Lower-risk decision-making
Compare options	Review cost and velocity deltas	Better trade-off discussions
Commit approved change	Promote a scenario to Live	Controlled rollout of structure changes

Core concepts

Live: your current organisation state
Scenario: a safe branch where you model change without touching Live
Actor: a person, robot, or agent in your organisation model
Org unit: the canonical hierarchy node (department/team/etc.)
Placement: where an actor sits in the org and at what allocation
Position: role metadata assigned to actors
Rollups: aggregated metrics such as headcount, FTE, and cost

Typical workflow

Import your structure and validate data quality.
Add missing detail manually (placements, positions, labels).
Create a scenario from Live.
Edit structure in scenario mode.
Review deltas (cost, capacity, velocity).
Promote the approved scenario to Live.

What Orgonaut is not

It is not an HRIS replacement.
It is not only an org chart renderer.
It is not a static documentation tool.

Orgonaut is best used as an operational planning layer that helps you model and communicate organisational change with evidence.