Organisation & Workforce

Location strategy builder

Score a shortlist of locations against your own weighted criteria, stress-test the cost case, and hand the board a ranked recommendation with a full audit trail.

  • Organisation & Workforce
  • Traceable reasoning
  • Runs anywhere
Preview methodology

2–3 weeks ~25 minutes

For a full population, not a sample

No coding required

Input
Org data, role documentation or headcount exports
Output
A role-level view of the organisation in scope with the reasoning attached
Runs in
Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
Export
SKILL.md · MCP
Time saved
~2–3 weeks per run

— USE CASES

What people use Location strategy builder for

Structural decisions with evidence

Show the role-level basis for a design or headcount decision instead of defending a judgement call.

One standard across the organisation

Apply the same criteria to every part of the organisation in scope, so functions are genuinely comparable.

Re-run after each change

Re-run against updated org data each cycle and see what actually moved.

What it works from

  • Org data, role documentation or headcount exports
  • Your own design principles or planning assumptions

What you get back

  • A role-level view of the organisation in scope with the reasoning attached
  • A roll-up for leadership at the level you report at

— HOW IT BEHAVES

How Location strategy builder produces its result

The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.

Live research on the organisation in scope

Current external sources on the organisation in scope are researched during the run rather than recalled from training data, and every source travels with the output.

Every row of the organisation in scope

Each row of your export is processed on the same basis, so no role is skipped however long the table is.

The pattern charted

Movement across the organisation in scope is visualised from the computed data, so the trend is legible at a glance.

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.

Roll-up alongside role-level detail

Detail rows are summarised into the grouped view of the organisation in scope without losing the underlying roles.

Why this is expensive by hand

Work on the organisation in scope normally means pulling org data, role documentation and headcount exports together by hand, then applying a standard that only exists in the head of whoever is doing it. Structural decisions with evidence is the typical trigger — show the role-level basis for a design or headcount decision instead of defending a judgement call. Done properly it is defensible; done at pace it becomes a judgement call nobody can retrace. And "properly" usually means 2–3 weeks of manual work.

How this Skill produces it

Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; a role-level view of the organisation in scope with the reasoning attached comes out, alongside a roll-up for leadership at the level you report at. 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. The practical effect: 2–3 weeks of manual work becomes a ~25 minutes run, held to an identical standard on the tenth engagement as on the first.

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

Location strategy builder 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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