Project Org Builder — give every accountability a name.
An organisation chart is a set of promises. This tool helps you make them deliberately — define the roles, draw the reporting lines, staff each accountability — and checks the structure for the joints that fail: broken lines, double placements, and spans too wide to manage.
What it does.
The Project Org Builder turns “we’ll sort the team out later” into a designed structure. Every role gets a unique ID, a reporting line, a person, a status — TBD, Suggested, or Filled — and an accountability written in plain language. The structure is checked as you build it, not after it has been published.
The web tool is a drag-and-drop builder: load a structure template and a people directory, drag people into placeholder roles, re-draw reporting lines by dragging role boxes onto new managers, and export the staffed structure back to Excel. It runs entirely in your browser — nothing installed, nothing sent to a server. The workbook is a self-contained org register, seeded with a starter project skeleton, with the same structural checks built in as live formulas.
Inside the free edition.
- Interactive web tool — drag people into roles, re-parent roles by dragging them onto new managers, with chart and tree views, team frames, a minimap, undo/redo, and Excel export.
- Dynamic Excel workbook — an org register for up to 20 roles with status dropdowns, a Reports-to picker, and notes for each accountability.
- The checks that matter: duplicate role IDs, reporting lines that resolve to nothing, people placed in two roles, more than one top role, and span of control per manager.
- A dashboard with staffing coverage, open roles, widest span, and a structural verdict in plain English.
- Works in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc.
Free edition vs full builder.
| Free edition | With stomwerk projekt | |
|---|---|---|
| Scale | Up to 20 roles, one reporting structure | Unlimited roles across multiple areas, built from your own structure templates |
| Staffing | Names typed by hand | Drag-and-drop from your full people directory, with placement suggestions |
| Checks | Duplicate IDs, unresolved lines, double placements, spans | Full validation suite: cycle detection, scope conflicts, change log with undo |
| Facilitation | Self-serve | Facilitated organisation design |
| Price | Free | Engagement |
Questions, answered.
What is a project organisation builder?
A structured way to design the team that delivers a project: which roles exist, who each role reports to, which person fills it, and what accountability they hold. The free edition pairs a drag-and-drop web builder with an Excel org register that checks the structure as you type — duplicate IDs, lines that resolve to nothing, double placements, extra top roles, and spans too wide to manage.
Is the Project Org Builder really free?
It will be. The free edition launches without a sign-up wall once final release checks are complete. Until then, preview it here and register interest via the contact form — we will send it the moment it ships. The full instrument remains part of a stomwerk engagement.
What does the web tool need to run?
Two Excel files: a structure template holding the placeholder roles (one sheet per area) and a people directory holding the pool of people to drag from. Both are parsed defensively in your browser — columns matched by header name, malformed rows listed rather than failing silently — and nothing is sent to a server. No files yet? Start with the workbook: it is self-contained and seeded with a starter skeleton.
Does the workbook work in Google Sheets and LibreOffice?
Yes. It uses standard formulas, dropdown validation, and conditional formatting that behave identically in Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc.