The org chart is not the company.
It is part of the picture, but only part. The real company is how work gets done. Who people go to when they need help. Who connects teams. Who quietly influences decisions. Who carries context across the business.
That is why we loved using OrgAcuity.
We have used survey tools for years, and like most organizations, we got value from them. But OrgAcuity added a level of dimensionality to employee listening that we simply did not get from previous survey approaches. It gave us visibility into the connectors, informal leaders, and key relationships in the business that we could not have seen otherwise.
Most survey programs flatten the business
Traditional survey programs tend to tell you what people said. That is useful, but it is incomplete. Legacy listening platforms tend to focus on responses rather than relationships, even though modern work is heavily shaped by connections outside a person’s immediate team.
That is what stood out to us about OrgAcuity. It is built around a network-based view of employee listening. OrgAcuity describes its approach as going beyond surface-level sentiment to uncover how relationships, collaboration, and influence shape experience and performance, with “network insights” and actionable intelligence layered into the listening picture.
That matters because a traditional survey can tell you a team has a problem. OrgAcuity helps show how that problem spreads, who is central to solving it, and where the real leverage sits. Its own use-case language is explicit about uncovering hidden networks, surfacing key people who influence engagement and collaboration, and helping leaders work through those influencers to drive change.
Richer listening data deserves a better home
We have been saying for years that survey data becomes much more valuable when it is connected to the rest of your workforce data. I wrote about this a few years ago and I still believe it. Survey data becomes materially more useful once it is connected to the rest of the employee data picture.
That is exactly why survey data and OrgAcuity fit so naturally with One Model.
One Model is built to unify and govern workforce data from across your HR and business systems. Our platform integrates and models workforce data from HRIS, ATS, payroll, engagement, and more, and our integration coverage explicitly spans HRIS, talent management, experience management, and business data. Once OrgAcuity data sits next to those broader workforce signals, it stops being a standalone listening output and becomes part of the operating picture.
That is where the real value starts. This is when you can start to ask better questions:
- Where are the critical connectors sitting in teams with elevated attrition risk?
- Which informal leaders are carrying more than they should?
- Where do collaboration patterns line up with retention, manager effectiveness, or other workforce outcomes?
- Which parts of the business have strong local leadership but weak cross-functional connection?
- Of the people who indicated they would leave the business, how many actually left post-survey?
Those questions are a natural extension of OrgAcuity’s network-based listening model combined with One Model’s governed, cross-system workforce foundation.
These are not vanity questions. They are decision questions.
Why we are partnering
This is why we are partnering with OrgAcuity.
This is not about putting two logos next to each other on a partner page. It is about combining two genuinely complementary capabilities.
OrgAcuity brings a modern approach to employee listening. It helps organizations see hidden networks, informal influence, and the relationship dynamics shaping engagement, collaboration, and outcomes.
One Model brings the governed data foundation, modelling layer, analytics capability, and decision support environment needed to connect that listening data to the rest of the workforce story. Publicly, we position One Model as the infrastructure platform that unifies and governs workforce data across systems for trusted analytics, AI, and decision support.
Together, that is a much more useful proposition for customers.
Built for customers, not just announcements
We have now built an integration to OrgAcuity using our new Universal API Connector, so customers can bring OrgAcuity data into One Model alongside their broader workforce and business data.
That matters for a simple reason. Listening data should not live in an analytical corner by itself. One Model’s public product direction is already about connecting virtually any API through the Universal API Connector and unifying workforce data into a governed decision-support layer. OrgAcuity data belongs in that broader context, not isolated from it.
That combination lets customers move from “this is interesting” to “this is actionable.”
It helps leaders see not only where experience issues sit, but how they connect to retention, manager effectiveness, collaboration, and business execution. It helps People Analytics teams bring richer evidence into workforce decisions. And it gives customers a practical way to use OrgAcuity data inside the broader analytics and planning motions they already run in One Model.
Why we like the company as much as the product
There is another reason this partnership makes sense.
OrgAcuity is clearly being built by people who understand the problem firsthand. Its leadership team comes from real people analytics and employee listening backgrounds, and the company itself is a blend of industry veterans, data scientists, technologists, and organizational psychologists.
That philosophy is familiar to us because it is also part of One Model’s DNA. One Model was born out of repeated frustration with the limits of existing tools, disconnected workforce data, and rigid infrastructure that kept People Analytics teams from doing the work they needed to do.
Additionally, OrgAcuity co-founder Craig Starbuck is a repeat One Model customer, so we have known each other for some time. I trust and have observed first hand that his knowledge and professional integrity have translated into the product.
The simple version
For us, the conclusion is straightforward.
We loved using OrgAcuity because it showed us our organization with more depth. It gave us visibility into connectors, informal leaders, and patterns of influence we could not have seen clearly before, along with the traditional listening questions and outputs.
And now that we’re bringing that data into One Model, we can help customers do something even more valuable: connect richer listening insights to the rest of their workforce reality and use it to make better decisions.
That is fully aligned with One Model’s mission: making workforce data connected, governed, and usable for decisions.
This is the kind of partnership we get excited about.
Not because it sounds good in a press release.
Because it is useful for our customers.
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