Orgvue is a platform.
OrgTool is a tool.

That's the whole comparison, honestly. If you want a managed workforce-planning platform with implementation partners and a data team, a cloud platform like Orgvue is built for that. If you want to open an app, load a CSV, and walk into the room with a defensible answer — without your client's org chart living in a vendor cloud — that's us.

OrgTool Orgvue (category-level)
Where your data lives Your machine. Full stop. Vendor cloud (SaaS)
Time to first chart Minutes — drop a CSV Implementation project
RIF legal analysis Adverse impact + WARN, live, hash-stamped Via services / partners
Procurement A software licence DPA, security review, data residency
Works offline / air-gapped Yes — it's the default No
Scenario modelling Unlimited scenarios, baselines, versions, side-by-side diff Yes — a core strength of the category
Data grid 9 column groups, inline edit, bulk ops, saved views Yes
Analytics Health score, risk radar, spans & layers, compensation, diversity, cost projection, attrition Yes — platform analytics
Network analysis (ONA) Built in — 5 relationship dimensions, deterministic metrics, broker/connector roles Typically add-on / services
AI workforce analysis Exposure scoring, reskill pipeline, savings forecast — local, opt-in, your key Varies by vendor / roadmap
Collaboration Parallel scenario copies + three-way merge, roles inside the encrypted file Real-time cloud multi-user
Better than us at — Continuous workforce planning at 50,000+ heads, HRIS integrations, managed service
We put their likely strengths in the table because you'd find them anyway. Orgvue-side statements are category-level descriptions of cloud workforce-planning platforms generally, not researched claims about Orgvue's current product — verify against Orgvue's own documentation before quoting this page.

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Answers restate claims verified file-by-file against the current build — see claims/ in the site repo. Last verified July 2026.

Is OrgTool a drop-in Orgvue replacement?
For scenario-based org design and restructuring analysis on data you can hold locally, the table above is the honest head-to-head. For a managed, continuously-synced workforce-planning platform with implementation partners and a data team, the cloud-platform category is genuinely the right tool — and we say so in the table rather than pretending otherwise.
When should I choose a platform like Orgvue instead?
Continuous workforce planning at very large scale (tens of thousands of heads), native HRIS integrations, and a managed-service relationship — the row we labelled "better than us at". If those are the requirement, buy the platform category.
How hard is it to try OrgTool alongside what we have?
Minutes. Export a CSV from your HRIS or current platform, drop it on the app, and the chart renders locally — columns auto-map, managers resolve, nothing uploads. The free plan needs no card.
Why does local-first matter in this category?
Because org design data is a list of names, salaries, and who might be cut. In a cloud platform that list becomes a tenant, a DPA, and a disclosure question. In OrgTool it is a file on the planner's machine — the analysis is just as rigorous; the blast radius isn't.
Are the Orgvue-side claims in the table researched?
No — deliberately. Orgvue-side cells are category-level descriptions of cloud workforce-planning platforms generally, and the page says so. Verify against Orgvue's own documentation before quoting it. The OrgTool column is verified against our code, file by file.
In one paragraph

Orgvue is a managed cloud workforce-planning platform; OrgTool is a local-first restructuring workbench. Choose the platform category for continuous, HRIS-integrated planning at very large scale with a managed service. Choose OrgTool to open an app, load a CSV, and produce defensible restructuring analysis — adverse impact, WARN, hash-stamped audit packs — without workforce data entering any vendor cloud, bought as a software licence instead of a platform engagement.

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