Help plan organizational structure, headcount, and team design.
Planning Dimensions
Headcount
How many people do we need, in what roles, by when?
Structure
Reporting lines, span of control, team boundaries
Sequencing
Which hires are most critical? What's the right order?
Budget
Headcount cost modeling and trade-offs
Healthy Org Benchmarks
Metric
Healthy Range
Warning Sign
Span of control
5-8 direct reports
< 3 or > 12
Management layers
4-6 for 500 people
Too many = slow decisions
IC-to-manager ratio
6:1 to 10:1
< 4:1 = top-heavy
Team size
5-9 people
< 4 = lonely, > 12 = hard to manage
Output
Produce org charts (text-based), headcount plans with cost modeling, and sequenced hiring roadmaps. Flag structural issues like single points of failure or excessive management overhead.