Design Partner Programme

Operating model infrastructure for AI-ready enterprises

Single source of truth for who owns what, who can decide what, and how work flows — queryable by humans and AI alike.

Accepting 3 design partners for Q2 2026 · Applications reviewed within 48 hours
#engineering-general · Slack
SL
Sarah Lin 9:47 AM
Hey team — who owns authentication? Need to know who to loop in for the new SSO flow.
90 minutes, 4 Slack threads, 3 different answers
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Plait 11:22 AM · instant
Service ownerPlatform Engineering
Decision rightsMarco Rossi Tech Lead
Approvals needPlatform Lead + Security
Last updated3 days ago
30%
of every employee's time lost to organisational ambiguity
Source: McKinsey State of Organisations 2024
€2.1M
annual cost for a 300-person organisation
Source: Plait customer discovery 2024–25
75%
of AI governance initiatives blocked by unclear decision rights
Source: Gartner AI Governance Survey 2025
The Problem

It's Monday, 9:47 AM

Someone asks a simple question. What follows is an 90-minute chain of Slack threads, wrong answers, and escalations that should never have happened.

💬 #engineering-general 312 members
SL
Sarah Lin 9:47
Who owns authentication? Need to loop someone in.
JM
James M. 9:51
I think it's Platform? Check with Reza.
AP
Ana P. 10:14
Actually Security owns the policy part, Product owns the roadmap. You need all three.
RK
Reza K. 11:21
Sorry, was in calls. Marco is actually the right person — I handed this off in the reorg.
⏱ 1h 34min · 4 people pulled in · still no definitive answer
40×
This happens 40 times a day across a typical 300-person organisation
€500K
Minimum annual spend on consultants to document operating models — obsolete within 12–18 months
79%
of enterprises deploying AI agents find them blocked by the absence of machine-readable authority structures

This isn't a documentation problem. It's an infrastructure problem. And it costs your organisation every single day.

The Solution

Your operating model, made explicit

Plait captures four dimensions of how your organisation actually works — and makes them queryable by both humans and AI agents in real time.

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Structure

How teams are organised — value streams, cost centres, vendor partnerships, and reporting relationships.

Team topology Value streams Cost centres
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Accountability

Who owns what — roles, decision rights, budget authority, and escalation paths. With full temporal history.

Decision rights Budget authority RACI
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Capabilities

What each team provides — service catalogue, skills inventory, capacity, and inter-team dependencies.

Service catalogue Skills map SLAs
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Workflows

How work flows — approvals, escalations, cross-functional handoffs, and exception routing.

Approvals Escalations Handoffs
Unlike org charts that go stale or wiki pages nobody updates, Plait stays current because other systems depend on it — your Jira routing, your Slack bot, your AI agents all query Plait. When it's wrong, things break. That's the forcing function.
The Problem with Today

Your operating model is scattered across three broken systems

HRIS / Workday
Reporting lines only
Shows who reports to whom. Silent on decision rights, service ownership, or approval flows.
Wiki / Confluence
Stale within weeks
Nobody updates it. Search returns twelve contradictory pages. Half those people have left.
Slack / Email / Heads
Invisible and fragile
Where the real source of truth lives. Not searchable. Not machine-readable. Not transferable.
Three broken sources, zero answers One living graph. Instant answers. AI-ready.
Integrations

When Plait is wrong, things break

That's the forcing function. By connecting to systems your teams rely on daily, Plait becomes infrastructure — not just documentation.

Slack
Answer "who owns X?" queries instantly in any channel
Microsoft Teams
Bot integration for org queries across your workspace
Jira
Auto-assign tickets based on Plait ownership data
Asana
Route tasks to correct owners via real-time org graph
Workday
Sync reporting lines and enrich with decision rights
Personio
HRIS sync for roles, team changes, and org updates
AI Agents via MCP
Real-time authority queries for any AI agent or copilot
REST API
Query any org data programmatically from any system
And 40+ more integrations across ITSM, ERP, identity, and developer platforms
Use Cases

What changes when your org is machine-readable

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Monday morning Slack

Someone needs to know who owns authentication. Today this takes 90 minutes. With Plait, it's instant — sourced, versioned, and accurate.

4 people pulled in, 3 conflicting answers, 90 minutes lost
Instant answer from Plait bot — owner, decision rights, last updated
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3 AM production crisis

A payment system is down. Who has authority to approve an emergency change? Plait returns the escalation path in milliseconds — machine-readable, no ambiguity.

Unknown escalation path, waking up wrong people, delay in resolution
Instant escalation path, right approvers paged, change authorised in minutes
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Compliance audit

Auditor asks: "Who was responsible for data governance in Q3 2023?" Today this is archaeology. Plait's temporal versioning answers it instantly.

Days of email archaeology, stale wiki pages, conflicting recollections
Instant temporal answer with full audit trail — who, when, what changed
Live Pilot

Running live with a major European automotive enterprise

200 users. 6-month pilot. Targeting a 30% reduction in organisational queries that would otherwise require escalation or manual research.

200
Active users in pilot
30%
Target query reduction
6mo
Pilot duration

"We spend more time figuring out who to talk to than actually solving problems. That's the problem Plait is solving — and we've felt it every week of the pilot."

Enterprise pilot participant · Digital transformation programme

Your organisation runs on tribal knowledge. Let's change that.

We're working with 3 design partners in Q2 2026 to shape the product, get hands-on implementation support, and define the future of operating model infrastructure.

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Accepting 3 design partners for Q2 2026 · Applications reviewed within 48 hours