Succession planning
Every critical role, and who is ready to take it
Map reporting lines and successors on one canvas, score the roles the business cannot leave empty, and see the bench behind each one — measured against the readiness levels you define.
From an empty bench to a covered seat
The Plant Manager's role scores 23 of 25 for criticality and has nobody behind it. This is what closing that gap looks like.
- 1The role is flagged: the highest criticality score in the company, and no successor.
- 2A production supervisor who already runs the largest shift is nominated — ready in one to two years.
- 3A second successor joins the bench, so the seat no longer depends on one person.
- 4With development under way, the first successor is assessed ready now. The seat is covered.
Chains of succession, drawn as they are
Start from any person or role and follow who could step in — and who could step in behind them. Every card carries its readiness, so a thin chain shows itself.
- Re-root the chart on anyone, by employee or by role
- The readiness level on every successor card
- Save a view, filter it, and export it as an image
Know which roles cannot be left empty
Score each role on your own criteria and see its bench beside the score, so attention goes to the critical roles with nobody ready behind them.
- Your criteria, your weights, your tiers
- The bench at each readiness level, role by role
- Filter to the critical roles with no successor
One page for each person
Assessments over the years, competencies, development plans, education, history and the roles a person is lined up for — on one profile, with an AI second opinion when you want one.
- Everything about a person, in four tabs
- A one-page brief to export for a meeting
- An AI evaluation of the record, on demand
What it will not do
It never tells a manager who is lined up to replace them.
Managers see the nominations they wrote, not the bench behind their own role. Asking for a plan they may not see returns “not found” — because confirming that a plan exists is itself the disclosure.
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