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Organisation Chart Maker

Drag to reparent, collapse whole branches, and lay out hundreds of roles automatically. Export to PowerPoint as editable shapes, not a flat picture.

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Frequently asked questions

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What is an organisational chart for?
Answering two questions quickly: who does somebody report to, and who does a given piece of work belong to. It is at its most useful for people who have just joined, and most revealing for the people who drew it, because the shape of a team is hard to see from inside and obvious on a page.
Should the boxes have names or job titles?
Both, and the role is the one that matters. A chart of names tells somebody who was not already there nothing at all, and a chart of roles with no names stops being a description of your organisation and starts being a description of organisations in general. The validation here asks for a role on every box for that reason.
How many direct reports is too many?
Past about eight for work that needs judgement, because that is roughly where one-to-ones become a scheduling problem and then quietly stop happening. It is a prompt, not a rule: a shift supervisor with twenty people doing the same task is fine, and a head of engineering with nine managers is not.
What is wrong with a manager who has one report?
Usually nothing about the people and something about the structure. A single-report box is a layer rather than a job: it adds a handoff, a meeting and an approval without adding a decision. Sometimes it is a deliberate succession step or the remains of a team that shrank. Either way it is worth being able to say which, and this is the shape the drawing exists to make visible.
How do I show a dotted-line relationship?
You cannot, here, and that is deliberate. A chart that shows every real reporting relationship stops being readable at about the second dotted line, which is why the real ones live in a RACI matrix instead: who is accountable for what, written down per piece of work. Keep the chart for the line that pays the salary.
Is any of this uploaded?
No. Everything happens in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere, which matters more for this tool than for most of the others here: an org chart is a list of real people and their managers, and that is exactly the kind of file that should not be passing through somebody else's server to be drawn.

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