What happens when you combine decades
of organisational transformation expertise
with advanced artificial intelligence?

Modus.

Our first product, Modus, turns complex data into clear, actionable insights.

Modus uses natural language processing and machine learning to analyse information from stakeholder interviews, staff surveys, policies, strategies, and more.

Integrating insights from our seasoned consultants with industry data, Modus understands your organisation’s landscape to deliver precise, tailored recommendations for a structure that aligns with your strategic goals and unique context.

This is AI augmentation. Combining Modus with the expertise of your team means a faster, more affordable organisation design process without sacrificing quality.

Nexus.

Now live in Beta, Nexus streamlines the staff consultation process.

Nexus streamlines staff consultation processes by centralising feedback collection, tracking consultation timelines, and documenting all employee input in one system.

Integrating staff consultation workflows with real-time reporting, Nexus captures feedback and perspectives on the proposed structural changes while maintaining clear audit trails throughout the process.

Combining Nexus with your HR team's expertise means faster, more organised restructuring processes without sacrificing employee voice or documentation quality.

A much faster,
more cost-effective,
evidence-based
organisation design.

  • Design principles provide clear decision-making guardrails that ensure organisational changes remain aligned with strategic goals while maintaining consistency across the business and preventing ad-hoc restructuring decisions that create inefficiency.

    Modus generates design principles based on your organisation’s unique context, strategy, and business transformation goals.

  • Analysing current positions helps us understand capability gaps, workload distribution, and how responsibilities actually flow in practice so we can design a structure that improves on what exists today.

    Modus streamlines hours of position analysis and provides an organisation-wide view of functions, responsibilities, and capability requirements (like technical or leadership skills and qualifications).

  • Staff feedback uncovers the operational realities that aren't visible in org charts and position descriptions.

    The survey tool analyses interview notes and survey results to surface themes and pain points that are relevant to organisational design.

  • The analytics dashboards in Modus reveal patterns (like spans of control, salary distribution, tenure, and reporting relationships) that inform our understanding of structural inefficiencies and help us make evidence-based decisions rather than gut-feel restructuring.

  • Functional design defines how work flows, roles interact, and processes operate within a specific department or business function to achieve its objectives efficiently.

    With strategic inputs, data analytics, and design principles, Modus recommends distinct structural models to inform organisational design.

  • Organisational design defines the overall structure of reporting relationships, departmental groupings, and governance mechanisms that enable the entire organisation to execute its strategy effectively.

    The organisational design recommendations from Modus help you compare structural models (to the team level) based on preferred functional design(s).

  • Modus analyses the potential impact of AI and automation in your organisation, identifying which tasks can be automated within existing roles, enabling leaders to make strategic decisions about how to reshape positions, redeploy capacity, and evolve job designs.

  • Automating position description writing eliminates 90% of the manual drafting time, ensures consistency across similar roles, and frees HR teams to focus on strategic work rather than repetitive documentation tasks.

  • The position impact analysis tool in Nexus compares current roles against proposed structures to identify which positions could be affected, whether comparable roles exist in the new design, and what changes individuals might face.

We built something different.

Upload your position descriptions, role frameworks, whatever documents you have. Modus reads through them and shows you the patterns.

More accurate,
less tedious.

Modus drafts accurate position descriptions based on the information you feed it.

Bulk PDs to write for your team or department? No problem.

Common questions.

  • No, Modus is designed so that you're in control. When Modus suggests a structure or identifies a pattern, you can see exactly why. Edit anything. Change anything. The AI does the heavy lifting, but the decisions are yours.

  • No, not replacing. Instead of spending weeks doing analysis and org chart comparisons, consultants can focus on the parts that actually need human expertise.

  • We don't train our AI on your information. You remain the owner of your data. We handle it in line with the New Zealand Privacy Act, and it is deleted when the project is done.

  • Right now, on secure AWS servers offshore. But we get that data sovereignty is a big deal, especially for government work. If you need local hosting, we can sort that out.

  • Yes. The Hawthorne-Ventures team have all worked in government agencies and NGOs we know what it's like dealing with tight budgets, small teams, and real complexities. We have designed Modus to help with that.

  • Of course. Modus handles manual analysis while you focus on the big decisions that really matter.