CEO Context: Misaligned teams burn cash. Use this tool to check if your Engineering-to-Product ratios are optimizing for velocity or creating bottlenecks.
1. Team Composition
Enter your current headcount.
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2. Organization Diagnosis
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Analyzing…Adjust sliders above to see result.
Eng : PM Ratio
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Ideal: 5-9 Engineers per PM. Less is micromanagement, more is a feature factory.
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Eng : Design Ratio
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Ideal: 4-8 Engineers per Designer. Above 12 suggests UX is suffering.
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PM : Design Ratio
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Ideal: 1:1. Above 2 PMs per designer creates bottlenecks.
It is a quick headcount ratio tool for Series A and Series B SaaS teams. You enter Engineers, Product Managers, and Product Designers, then it diagnoses whether your org shape is likely to create velocity bottlenecks, UX debt, or weak product definition.
What ratios does this tool calculate?
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It calculates Engineer to PM, Engineer to Design, and PM to Design. Together these show whether discovery and decision making can keep up with delivery, and whether UX capacity can keep up with product output.
What is a healthy Engineer to PM ratio for growth-stage SaaS?
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A common healthy range is roughly 5 to 9 Engineers per PM. If you are far above that, product definition and sequencing often fall behind. If you are far below that, teams can become meeting heavy and slower to ship.
Does this tool tell me exactly who to hire next?
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No. It gives you a directional diagnosis, not an org chart. Use the result to identify the constraint, then validate it using symptoms like unclear specs, slow decisions, rising UX issues, retention drops, or stakeholder churn in priorities.
Does the tool store or send my data anywhere?
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It uses localStorage to remember your last slider positions so you can return later without re-entering values. It does not send your headcount data to a server by default.
How should I use the diagnosis in an exec discussion?
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Use it as a starting point to align on constraints. If the tool flags feature factory risk, audit how initiatives are validated. If it flags UX debt, review activation and retention signals. If it flags bottlenecks, review ownership, WIP limits, and decision cadence.
Tip: Download the report image to share ratios in leadership reviews, then document the assumptions behind headcount targets so you can revisit decisions each quarter.