About Pingboard

Our mission is to revolutionize people planning. As companies scale, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage hiring plans across the organization, design career paths, and adopt new agile organizational models. We are creating software that reimagines how these things get done.

Taking a cue from Elon Musk, here is our 3-part master plan to revolutionize people planning:

• Modernize the org chart

  Inside most companies, vital information about who does what and who reports to who isn't available when it's needed. Maintaining the org chart is a time-consuming task that begins with exporting data from an HR system and ends with manually creating the org chart using PowerPoint or Visio. These static files are shared over email or posted to the intranet and quickly become out of sync with reality, making it difficult to trust for business critical tasks. Pingboard solves this, as the first real-time org chart.

• Expand the org chart into a collaborative people planning tool

  Most companies do their hiring planning, reorgs, and succession planning with whiteboards and spreadsheets. We’ve come up with a better way, by adding a second dimension to the org chart—time.

  Leaders will be able to fork the live org chart, modify, and share it. Roles and career paths can be discussed in context, aided by data-driven insights from across the Pingboard network. Future plans are approved and merged, then open positions can be shared with the whole company so everyone is involved in the recruiting process. Employees can scroll ahead and see what the company will look like in 6 months, and new hires can scroll back to the beginning and see how the company took shape.

• Introduce new organizational models, such as cross-functional teams

  Companies that rely solely on a vertical chain of command are at risk of getting outpaced by more agile competitors. New company structures are being created by the world’s best companies, to bring employees closer to customers and products and allow teams to form and re-form on the fly as priorities evolve.

  With this third dimension of the org chart in Pingboard, companies can manage their expertise across projects, customer accounts or product lines, allowing companies operate as a flexible network of teams, rather than just as a top-down hierarchy.

In short, the master plan is:
Modernize the org chart,
Revolutionize people planning,
Help companies organize in smarter ways.