CAO Studio
Apply it to real work
Use the method on a real organization with evidence, workshops, diagnostics and AI support.
Strategy · Capability · Organization Design
Design the organization your strategy needs.
CAO Studio brings strategy, diagnostics, organization design, and AI-powered recommendations into one workspace.
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Beyond the symptoms
See the organization as a system
See what is really shaping performance.
One systemic view
Bring evidence, capabilities and organization design into one systemic view.
Connect the evidence
Turn interviews, observations, workshops and data into a coherent organizational picture.
See dependencies
Make coupling, coordination and structural constraints visible.
Find systemic patterns
Move beyond individual symptoms to the structures producing them.
You don’t have an insight problem. You have a systems-visibility problem.
Choose your starting point
What CAO Studio helps you achieve
Start with what matters most right now. You can always go deeper later.
Not sure where to start? Our team can help you choose the right starting point.
How it works
Context in. CAO Brain reasons. Recommendations out.
Context in
Your organization
- Strategy
- Evidence
- Workshops
- Current design
Just drop it in — the Evidence Inbox reads any file or pasted text and proposes Notes, Findings and Diagnostics you approve.
CAO Brain reasons
CAO Brain
- CAO method
- Diagnostics
- Reasoning
Recommendations out
Decisions
- Capability gaps
- Design options
- Recommendations
- Playbooks / reports
Close the loop — promote any finding or result to the Change Plan, then track it evidence → work → done.
Built on Creating Agile Organizations
One approach. Four ways to use it.
CAO Studio turns the organization-design approach behind the Creating Agile Organizations book and certified CAO courses into a system you can use on real organization-design work.
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Creating Agile Organizations
The book
Understand the principles, theory and reasoning behind the method.
2Certified CAO Courses
Learn the method
Learn how to design and guide organization change using the method.
CAO Studio Enterprise
Make it repeatable
Turn organization design into an internal, repeatable capability rather than an occasional consulting project.
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Proof
Built for real organization redesign.
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strategy & org design workshops
6 wks
from kickoff to executive outputs
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workspace from strategy to design
We ran four strategy and org design workshops in six weeks. CAO Studio gave us the structure and outputs we would otherwise have needed an external consultant for.
Strategy to design in one workspace
Evidence, not opinion
EU cloud, local, or enterprise deployment
Free resources
Start on your own with a sample or guide.
Practical tools and examples to help you see where you stand and what to do next.
Self-assessment
Strategy / capability gap self-check
Surface the most critical gaps between your strategy and your current capabilities.
Download freeSample output
Sample Go See Assessment
See a completed Go See Assessment — the questions, the format, and the findings it surfaces.
View sampleDiagnostic
7 Signals Your Org Design Is Holding Back Strategy
A short practical guide to spot the org design issues that slow strategy execution.
Download freeBetter execution doesn’t start with more slides. It starts with better design.
Handling the “why not…”
What you might compare us to
vs Miro / whiteboards
“Miro is a whiteboard. CAO Studio is the working environment those outputs become a system in.” Insight → decision, not just sticky notes.
vs Big-firm consultants
Same method, repeatable and in-house — without the knowledge (and the invoice) walking out the door every engagement.
vs DIY spreadsheets & decks
Reusable diagnostics, grounded AI synthesis, and evidence trails — instead of reinventing the analysis by hand each time.
vs Jira / Jira Align
“Jira measures the symptoms of bad org design. CAO Studio addresses the design itself.”
CAO Studio is not workshop software — it’s a strategy-to-organization design system.
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Build your internal organization design capability
Move from isolated workshops and consultant decks to a repeatable system for strategy, capability, and organization design.