Squado - Your engineering org on one live canvas
I am an engineering manager and the thing I could never keep current was not the code, it was the shape of the org. Who sits where, what each team is carrying, what it costs. That lived across a spreadsheet, a wiki page and some Slack threads, and it was stale the moment I finished assembling it. Squado is one canvas with alliances, tribes and squads and the people on them. Drag someone into…
Meet Squado, an engineering organization management tool designed to provide a single, live canvas view of an organization's structure. As an engineering manager, the author struggled to keep track of the org structure using spreadsheets, wiki pages, and Slack threads. Squado aims to solve this issue by offering a single canvas with alliances, tribes, and squads, displaying information such as team composition, cost, vacation, split allocations, and open seats.
The platform allows users to drag and drop team members between squads, indicating whether they transfer or stay in both. Hourly rates by role are set once and rolled up accordingly for squads, tribes, and alliances. OKRs are attached to the squads responsible for them, and the ceremony calendar highlights any overlaps. The demo features a fictional fintech organization with 10 squads and the individuals within each.
The platform is a read-only experience for visitors, meaning users can view all information but cannot make changes. The front-end is built with React, React Flow, Fastify, Prisma, and Supabase. The caching mechanism utilizes Redis, with a 30-second cache duration to ensure the 50KB payload feels instant for everyone viewing the same org structure.
The author built the tool independently and is curious about how the model would perform for organizations that are structured differently than what Squado offers. For those not operating squads and tribes, the author is interested in hearing about their organizational structure.
Interested users can explore a full demo without signing up at https://app.squado.io/demo and access the main website at https://squado.io.
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