Most people assume an org chart tool does exactly one thing: draw the boxes and lines. Upload a list of names, get a chart, done. That's the core of what OrgPlease! does — and for plenty of teams, it's all they ever need.

But a handful of the more useful things it does don't show up until you go looking for them. One of them is brand new, and it's the one I'd most want you to know about. Here it is, plus five more worth a look.

Scenario planning: model a reorg without touching your live chart

Reorgs are where org charts get risky. You want to try moving a few people around — spin up a new team, see what the headcount and the budget look like, test who'd report to whom — but the only chart you have is the real one, the one the whole company relies on. So you do one of two bad things: edit the live chart and hope you can put it back, or rebuild the whole structure in a separate slide that's out of date the moment you save it.

Scenario planning is the fix. You create a scenario — a private copy of your live chart — and rearrange it however you like. Move people under new managers, add open roles you're hiring for, remove positions, adjust compensation. Your live chart doesn't change at all while you do it.

As you work, a change-list keeps a running tally of exactly what's different from reality: how the headcount shifts, who's been added, who's been removed, who moved, and the total compensation change. You're not eyeballing two charts trying to spot the differences — the summary is right there.

When the plan becomes real, you promote the scenario to live in one step. If it was only ever a what-if, you discard it and nothing happened. It's the difference between planning a reorg on a private draft and planning it out loud on the chart everyone's watching.

Scenario planning is a paid feature — but it starts right on the Starter plan ($19/month), so it isn't gated behind an enterprise tier. (The free tier still covers up to 25 people; it just doesn't include scenarios.)

Five more things it does that you might miss

Share the chart, hide the salaries. Every org chart has a quiet privacy problem: the version with comp and personal details is the genuinely useful one, and it's exactly the one you can't send around. OrgPlease! handles it at the link level. Build one chart, then create a share link that hides any field you choose — salary, personal email, whatever's sensitive. Whoever opens the link sees a clean chart with those fields gone, and they don't need a login. Send the public link to the whole company; keep the full view for leadership.

A board-ready PDF, not a screenshot. When the chart needs to go in a board deck, an onboarding packet, or up on a wall, export it as a branded, crisp PDF — or a PNG for a quick image. It's vector, so it stays sharp at any size, and it carries your look instead of a fuzzy screen grab.

It builds from the spreadsheet you already have. No HRIS, no IT ticket, no implementation call. Upload your Excel or CSV roster — name, email, manager's email — and the chart assembles itself in about a minute. The honest trade-off: this is re-upload, not a live HRIS feed, so the chart is as current as your last upload. For most teams that's a fair deal for never hand-drawing a chart again — and if your people data lives in an HR system, you just export a CSV and upload that.

Custom fields and faces. Add the details your team actually cares about — title, department, location, start date — and they appear on each person's card. Add photos, too. Putting faces to names is a small thing that makes a chart people actually open, especially during onboarding.

A compact view for when the org gets big. Past a couple hundred people, a full-size chart turns into an endless scroll. Compact view tightens the cards so you can take in more of the structure at once — useful the moment "fits on one screen" stops being true.

Bottom line

OrgPlease! is built to do one job well: turn your roster into a clean, current, shareable org chart. But "the chart" turned out to need a few things around it — a safe place to plan changes, a way to share without oversharing, a real export, and the flexibility to show what matters to your team. Scenario planning is the newest of those, and if you've got a reorg on the horizon, it alone is worth the upgrade.

The best way to see any of this is to put your own team into it.

Try it free. Up to 25 people, no credit card. When you need scenario planning, it's on every paid plan — starting at $19/month. orgplease.com

New here? Start with our free org chart maker from Excel walkthrough, or see how to make an org chart from a CSV.