Know what your org really costs, builds, and needs.
Squado puts headcount, allocation, and real cost per squad, tribe, and alliance on one live canvas. Ask the question at 9:02. Answer it at 9:03.
- "What does the Payments tribe cost this month?"
- "Is anyone split across squads without us noticing?"
- "The org chart is out of date. Again."
Free for 14 days, and the demo opens without an account.
NovaPay is a demonstration organization. Its people and figures are sample data, not a customer.
Five surfaces, one model underneath
Change the org once and all five stay current, because none of them is a separate document.
The org chart that cannot go stale
Squads, tribes and alliances on a live drag-and-drop canvas. Reassignment is a gesture, not a ticket, and the canvas is the working surface rather than a snapshot of one.
- Squad cards carry members, roles and capacity gaps
- Drag squads between tribes and the change is immediate
- Filter by role to highlight people across the org
- Executive mode for leadership presentations
Objectives that reach the squads doing the work
Custom cycles from company level down to squad, with check-ins that record confidence instead of a colour. Every objective stays linked to the teams executing it.
- Company, tribe and squad levels in one cascade
- Confidence tracked per check-in, with history
- Unlimited cycles on your calendar, not ours
- Every objective linked to the teams doing the work
What this tribe costs, answered in seconds
Exact monthly cost per squad, tribe and alliance, computed from a rate matrix by role and seniority. Every total opens into the rows that produced it, so the number survives the question that follows it.
- Rate matrix by role and seniority
- Cost rolls up through squad, tribe and alliance
- Per-person visibility switch on financial data
- Export the view finance actually asked for
Problems surface while they are still cheap
A scored dashboard reading the same structure: uncovered roles, people allocated past capacity, teams running without a lead. Flagged as they appear rather than in the retrospective.
- Uncovered required roles flagged automatically
- People allocated across too many squads
- Squads and tribes running without a lead
- A single score you can take into a leadership meeting
One calendar that reconciles when people move
Every recurring meeting populated from the squad, tribe, chapter or guild it belongs to. When the org changes, hit sync and the roster catches up. No calendar integration required.
- Daily, weekly, biweekly and monthly cadences
- Participants auto-populate from the linked entity
- Conflicts and double-bookings detected on the grid
- Chapters and guilds link ceremonies across tribes
Your teams' time is your biggest expense. Now you can see it.
Every squad's ceremonies in one calendar. Every conflict flagged the moment it is created. Every meeting priced from the real rates of the people in the room.
Growing an org without a live model is expensive
Every week you make staffing decisions against a picture of the org rather than the org itself. These are the four failures that picture guarantees.
"Nobody trusts the org chart enough to decide from it."
Updated quarterly, stale by Monday. A drawing has no idea when it stopped being true.
"We wrote the OKRs in January. Nobody has looked since."
Confidence goes untracked, and the squads executing the work cannot see which company goal they are attached to.
"Finance asked what the tribe costs. That took two days."
Four systems, one pivot table, and you still are not certain the number is right when you send it.
"The role sat empty six weeks. I found out in the retro."
By the meeting where it surfaced, the cost of the gap had already been paid.
From a spreadsheet to a live org
The honest objection is setup time. Here is the whole path, with nothing skipped.
Paste what you already have
Upload or paste the sheet your org already lives in. It does not need cleaning first, and column names do not need to match anything.
AI maps it onto your structure
Import reads your headers and values, maps them onto roles, seniorities, squads and allocations, then shows you the mapping before anything is written. You correct what it got wrong.
Start with a single tribe
Most teams put one tribe on the canvas first and get value the same day. The rest of the org arrives whenever you are ready, and nothing has to be redone.
AI org import is included on every plan, Starter upward.
Flat rate per org. Never per seat.
Put the whole company on the canvas. You pay by squads, so adding people never costs more.
- Full org canvas: alliances, tribes, squads
- Chapters and guilds
- Ceremony calendar with conflict detection
- Org health dashboard
- AI org import
- Export to PNG
- 1 workspace editor
- Everything in Starter
- OKR cascade with unlimited cycles
- Financial matrix with role rates
- Export to PNG, PDF and PowerPoint
- Public read-only canvas sharing
- Audit log
- 3 workspace editors, priority support
- Everything in Growth
- SSO and SAML
- Custom roles and permissions
- Dedicated support and onboarding
- SLA guarantees
- Unlimited editors plus API access
Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial. No credit card required.
The questions buyers actually ask
I lead several teams. Keeping the real picture current was the hard part.
I'm an engineering manager, and in any given week I'm responsible for several development teams at once. The thing I could never keep current wasn't the code, it was the shape of the org itself: who sits where, what each team is actually carrying, and what it costs.
That answer lived scattered across spreadsheets, a wiki page, and a few Slack threads, and it was already out of date the moment I finished putting it together. Every quarter I rebuilt the same view by hand.
Squado is the tool I wanted for my own teams: one live canvas where structure, demands, and cost stay true without a weekly rebuild. If you run squads and tribes, I think it will save you the same afternoons it saved me.
Five minutes from now, your org is on a canvas
Sign up, paste your people from a spreadsheet, and watch your first tribe appear. You will not need a card, a sales call or an IT ticket to find out whether it works.