Functionly Reviews

Functionly is truly a game-changer in the realm of organizational development tools. As a consultant, I've had the pleasure of utilizing the platform multiple times, and I am consistently blown away by its impeccable user experience. The platform's functionality is top-notch and makes my work so much more efficient. I've had the unique experience of journeying alongside the product development team and it's evident that they genuinely value and consider user feedback, which speaks volumes about their commitment to continuous improvement. I can't rave enough about Functionly. Highly recommend!

I've been using the tool since it first launched and what I have appreciated is Functionly's response to feedback. They are so quick to listen and improving the product!

Do it! It will change the way you see your organisation and lead it!

Understanding roles and responsibilities,

Making job descriptions live and relevant,

Excellent visual overview of the company structure,

Developing clear lines of accountability within the company,

One source of truth for organisational design.

Generally, an org chart becomes obsolete the next day it's been finalized. The great thing about Functionly is that it splits the reporting and the accountabilities. Reporting does not change much generally, but new accountabilities in a business come up every day and Functionly makes it easy to assign them as they come without affecting the reporting chart. The result is that at any time, any employee can see who is responsible for what in the organization and every employee is clearly aware of their accountabilities.

Most important for such a powerful tool is the excellent support!

I wish there were more tutorial videos on how to strategically build a Functionly chart. Should we start from the functions, the teams, the roles or the people? A blank template (no functions, no roles) would be good too, or at least an option to remove all the functions and roles from a template.

Functionly gives me the ability to adjust the accountabilities without affecting the reporting org chart and it clarifies the accountabilities across the organization.

The user interface is easy to interact with, they is enough functionality to grow into, and they are just getting started!

Since they are just getting started, there are some like-to-haves that need to be addressed, but in discussions with the team there, they are on the roadmaps.

Org Chart management and sharing, restructuring visibility, growth/talent movements, etc.

team-based org modeling; built-in function library and ability to put people into multiple teams

UX is a bit rough, or janky in some areas, needs autoscroll and more progressive disclosure, no dotted lines or non-primary views/layers, sharing functionality is a bit limited, and we connection to JustWorks and other HR systems is a real requirement. Stuff appears too dense at a small scale.

this is the only tool that let's you plan and model an organization--we all start out thinking we want to make an org chart, but what we really need to do is to plan an org, from which the org chart materializes.

Org chart development and team structure development

It helps us think more clearly about the functions we'll need and where they'll fit in our team, instead of just drawing an org chart. The user interface is modern and elegant. Their people (including the CEO) are eager to listen to feedback and brainstorm about how to make the product better.

I'd like to be able to understand the impact of our plans in terms of the list of personnel changes and the effect on our cashflow -- but they've done a great job of listening to my comments and giving me confidence that they understand and have ideas to enhance their product to help.

Take advantage of the opportunity to talk with their team. They're interested in what you're trying to accomplish, and they'll help point you in the right direction.

We're a new startup, and we're planning our growth. In the old days, I would have drawn an org chart in Visio and kept track of numbers in Excel. With Functionly, I'm able to think through the functions we'll need, where those functions best fit in the organization, and which roles we'll need on each team. It's helping us to do better planning and to communicate our plans to the team.

The templates roles, responsibilities, and the editable library are extremely valuable.

Super awesome customer support, great scrappy startup team that is customer driven.

Can be a little buggy as to be expected given their stage, a tad bit on the expensive side given the use case is not exactly “monthly” at a company my size.

Org design, reporting, roles and responsibilities, hiring plans.

Functionly is much more than an org chart, it actually helps design org structure that reflects how people actually work and interact.

It's still in relatively early stage of development, so not everything is polished. But I was already, even at this stage, was able to gain a tremendous amount of value.

One problem I'm solving is the ability to see into the future how an organizational structure might look like when we grow.

Visualizations, ease of use, and pre-built roles

The platform is still evolving and so there are things you'll want it to do that it can't yet do (but the alternatives, to be fair, don't do those things either)

Org design, visualization, and communication

Functionly did save a lot of my time comparing with chart builders(draw.io, etc) when I did plan org structure for my startup because it purpose-built. Also, I like:

1. Templates for functions and jobs

2. Lightweight and easy to use UI with drag and drop

3. Ability to build multiple org chart scenarios and compare

4. Possibility to export org chart and job descriptions

5. Generous 22 days free trial (no credit card required)

It already gives excellent value, however, there are a lot of features that will skyrocket this value in the future, for example adding KPI's to each position and making them live via connecting to data sources via Zapier. Also, there are minor UX issues, which I believe will be resolved in the future, like adding vacant position as a manager, inability to add a team on the top of other teams (but there is backdoor for this, you can add a new team and then put other teams inside this team)

Try to build few different scenarios, of course, based on your use case - growth, hiring, restructuring.

I did build growth scenarios for my startup - primeclass.io. Functionly did save a lot of my time on this. Here I can drag and drop prebuilt components -teams, jobs, functions into my orgchart. Another great feature is that Functionly shows which function unassigned to the team members. It is dead simple to use and a pleasure to work in Functionly, comparing with other chart solutions where you need to do everything from the scratch.

This tool saves me time and makes me look good with clients. I no longer have to waste time cobbling together Powerpoints and Excel to show different ways to structure a modern marketing team. I can instead drag and drop individuals and teams, and create multiple scenarios in a flash. I can also create a library of functions that can be re-used, and it can help generate position descriptions. All in all it is a powerful, intuitive, purpose-built tool that is perfect for designing modern teams.

There is not much to dislike about this tool, and if there's ever an issue the team are super responsive. The only feature that will improve it in future, is a decent export function in multiple formats so that you can include the org design in reports.

I'm a consultant who helps Chief Marketing Officers to design modern marketing teams, and I use Functionly to help me design and present multiple ways to do this - from product-centric, audience-centric, hub and spoke, to agile teams etc. It allows me to easily show which functions exist in which teams, who's on what teams, who reports into who and whether there is any double-up in functions. Once you've agreed on the final structure, you can then allocate accountabilities and responsibilities, and create position descriptions right from inside the tool. It has saved me many many hours mucking around with Powerpoint, Excel and Word.