Departments, roles, budgets

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The org chart you could never afford to staff: as many departments as the business has parts, and as many roles inside each as the work needs. Every department carries its own goal and its own budget. So does every role inside it.

Free to start · $49 a month for each organization

A real one, drawn small. Four departments, each with a goal and a monthly ceiling, and the roles that report into them.

Northfield Supply Co.
Sales Ceiling $420 a month Goal: no enquiry sits unanswered for more than an hour
  • Lead Qualification
  • Quotes and Proposals
  • Pipeline Follow-up
Customer Support Ceiling $500 a month Goal: first reply inside fifteen minutes, around the clock
  • Frontline Support Answer from our own policies and product notes Owner: Priya Ceiling $180 a month One crew member attached, swappable at any time
  • Returns and Refunds
  • Knowledge Base
Finance Ceiling $260 a month Goal: nothing outstanding past thirty days
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Invoicing
  • Month-end Reporting
Operations Ceiling $340 a month Goal: every order out the door the same day
  • Order Processing
  • Stock and Reordering
  • Supplier Follow-up

Everything below this is a detail of this picture: what a role is addressed by, how the ceilings cascade, and how you hand it a piece of work.

What it gives you

Draw the whole company, not a shortlist.

Nothing caps the shape of it. The limit is what your business actually does, not what the software allows.

01

As many departments as you need

Create one for every part of the business, each with its own goal and its own monthly budget, and as many roles inside it as the work calls for. If your operation has eleven functions, draw eleven.

02

Every role carries its own brief

Its goal, what finished looks like, who is accountable for it, the ceiling it cannot pass, and the crew member doing the work. The department sets the direction. The role holds the specifics.

03

Roles can have their own reports

A crew member can hand a sub-task to another and use the answer, up to three levels deep. Work travels down the chart the way it would in a real team, and the cost travels back up to the role that started it.

The role is the address

Swap the worker. Keep the wiring.

Your webhook, your schedule, your API call and your assignments all point at the role rather than at the crew member behind it. Replace that crew member, upgrade it, change how it works, and every integration carries on untouched. You have hired a role instead of wiring a script.

"We replaced the crew member behind support triage."Nothing that pointed at the role needed changing, and the systems sending work to it never knew.

Budgets that hold

A ceiling per role, and per department.

Put a monthly limit on a single role or on a whole department. The nearest ceiling is the one that applies, so a role's own limit wins and otherwise the closest department above it does. Limits reset on schedule each month.

Work assignments

Give a role a piece of work, with a deadline.

An assignment is a named piece of work handed to a role, tracked from the moment you set it until you accept it.

An objective, and what done looks like

Write the acceptance criteria at the start, so the finished work can be judged against something rather than argued about afterwards.

Tracked through to a decision

Start it, accept it, send it back for a revision, reject it or cancel it. Where every assignment stands is visible on the chart itself.

A deadline and a ceiling

Every assignment carries a budget it cannot pass, so a long piece of work cannot quietly turn into an expensive one while you are not watching.

Common questions

A position in your organization with a job to do, an owner, a budget and a crew member behind it. It is also the thing your integrations point at, which is why the crew member can change without anything else changing.

No, and that is deliberate. One crew member per role means there is never a question about which one an assignment went to, whose failure it was, or what a line on the cost report refers to.

They are separate. Your balance is whether the money exists. A ceiling on a role is whether that role is allowed to spend it. Setting a ceiling never moves money.

Yes. Cost is reported per role and rolled up through the whole chain of work, with the typical figure and the worst case, so you can answer the question rather than estimate it.

Draw your organization.

Start with one department and one role.

Free to start · $49 a month for each organization