Diagnosing an existing structure
Get an evidenced read on structural problems before designing anything new.
— Organisation & Workforce
Organisation design review
Reviews structure, spans, layers and accountability against how the organisation is meant to work, then sets out where the design creates friction and what to change first.
- Organisation & Workforce
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
2–3 days → ~5 minutes
For one document, brief or record at a time
No coding required
- Input
- Org map, charts or structure exports
- Output
- A structured design review with named issues
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~2–3 days per run
— USE CASES
What people use Organisation design review for
Post-change health check
Review whether a recent restructure produced the clarity it was meant to.
Pre-design baseline
Establish the current-state issues a design must resolve.
What it works from
- Org map, charts or structure exports
- Role and accountability documentation
- The design principles you want applied
What you get back
- A structured design review with named issues
- Extracted entities, roles and reporting relationships
- A baseline for design work
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Organisation design review produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Anchored to your actual structure
Analysis runs against your real reporting lines and roles rather than an assumed org shape.
Composed as work product
Findings on the organisation in scope are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a role.
Criteria-based analysis of every role
Each role is assessed against explicit criteria you control, so the same standard is applied across the organisation in scope on every run.
Structured extraction from org data, role documentation and headcount exports
Facts and fields are lifted out of org data, role documentation and headcount exports and held in a consistent shape, role by role.
Why this is expensive by hand
Every organisation & workforce team needs organisation design review — and almost none of them do it the same way twice. Diagnosing an existing structure is the typical trigger — get an evidenced read on structural problems before designing anything new. Get it right and the conclusion holds up in the room; get it rushed and it gets picked apart. Either way it costs roughly 2–3 days of experienced attention.
How this Skill produces it
As a Skill, the work is already sequenced. You bring the evidence, and the run produces a structured design review with named issues plus extracted entities, roles and reporting relationships. What sits between input and output is the codified method: thresholds, sequencing and the points where a human confirms a call — all of it visible and editable in the Skill. Net effect: 2–3 days down to ~5 minutes, no drift between runs, and every conclusion traceable back to the evidence behind it.
Who it's for
- Org design and workforce planning leads
- COOs and functional leaders reshaping teams
- Transformation consultants sizing people impact
- HR business partners supporting redesign
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Organisation design review exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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