Org chart maker

An org chart that keeps itself in order

Most org charts are drawn once in a slide or a generic diagram tool, and every reorganisation after that means dragging boxes, re-routing lines, and fixing the spacing by hand. A month later the chart is out of date, because updating it is a chore nobody owns. An org chart on a hosted canvas works differently. Each person is a card with a name, a title, a department, and a location, and the reporting lines are real connections between the cards. The chart lays itself out from top to bottom: add someone, move them to a new manager, or remove a role, and the tree re-arranges in one step that you can undo.

Building the chart is quick. Select a person and use the plus handles to add a report below, a peer beside, or a manager above; drag a card onto someone else to change who they report to, and their own team moves with them. Departments get their own colors, and open positions appear as dashed cards marked Open, so the gaps in the team are as visible as the people. When someone also works for a second manager, draw a connection from that manager and it becomes a dotted line that stays out of the main tree, so the layout keeps one clear chain of command. When a manager has many direct reports, switch the chart to the compact layout to keep it narrow.

From one team to the whole organisation

An org chart is most useful next to the work it explains. Keep it on the same canvas as the cross-functional flow that shows which team hands what to whom, or beside the meeting notes of the team it describes. Share a branded public link in the onboarding handbook, export SVG or PNG for a slide or an all-hands, and save a revision before each reorganisation so you can compare before and after; Pro adds embed for the company wiki plus watermark-free PDF and JPEG. A Free diagram holds up to 15 people and open positions, which covers a small company or one department; Pro has no node limit, for charts of a whole organisation.

HR teams use it for onboarding handbooks, founders to plan the next hires, managers to explain a new team structure, and consultants to map a client organisation during a project. The names, titles, and departments in the template are written in the language you work in, across all eight interface languages, and every card shows initials instead of a photo, so the chart looks consistent without collecting pictures. Sign in with Google or GitHub, start from the org chart template, and replace the sample company with your own team.

Start from a template

• Org chartA small company already laid out: a CEO, three department heads, their teams, and one open position.
• Cross-functional flowSwimlanes per team, for the process the org chart does not show: who hands what to whom.
• Meeting notesAgenda, decisions, and action items with owners for the team on the chart.

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