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

AI Powered Organisational Design.

Modus combines AI-driven insights with proven design practices to help leaders redesign their organisations faster, smarter, and with greater confidence.

Every organisational design project has two main parts. One is the thinking - what should this structure achieve, where should decisions sit, and what trade-offs are we making. The other is weeks of drafting position descriptions, analysing hundreds of rows in several spreadsheets, gathering feedback, and preparing documentation.

The first part needs more attention, but the second part takes most of it.

Our platform, Modus, fixes that.

It reads strategy and policy documents, analyses people data, and synthesises staff feedback. It develops organisational design options, drafts position descriptions, maps impacts, and helps manage consultation documentation. Nothing happens without you making the call, and if you change your mind, Modus helps with that too.

Our team at Hawthorne are experts in organisational design. We didn’t build Modus to do the organisational design, we built it to clear enough of the workload so that someone actually can.

Staff Consultation.

We’ve launched new features to help streamline the staff consultation process.

Modus 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, Modus captures feedback and perspectives on the proposed structural changes while maintaining clear audit trails throughout the process.

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

We built something different.

Upload your position descriptions, role frameworks, and any other workforce-relevant 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.

Several position descriptions to write for your teams or departments? 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.