Find your real successors before a departure forces the question.
Most succession plans are lists of names, not actual pipelines. Confirm's succession planning software maps organizational influence using ONA data, so you know who's actually ready to step up, who's carrying key-person risk, and where your leadership bench is thin.
Most succession plans don't survive first contact with an actual departure.
You have a succession plan. It has names in boxes. A VP leaves, and you go to the plan, and the person in the box has already left, or isn't ready, or everyone knew they weren't the right answer but no one updated the plan.
This is the default state of succession planning at most companies. A document that reflects a moment in time, made by people who didn't have objective data, and hasn't been touched since the last board review.
The deeper problem: your real successors probably aren't on the plan. The person who actually holds the organizational knowledge, who everyone goes to when things break, who bridges the departments that can't talk to each other — that person is invisible to the process that creates succession plans.
Confirm makes them visible. ONA maps who's actually driving organizational function. Your succession plan reflects reality, not org chart proximity.
"[Confirm finds] which workers are vital to the flow of information."
"An effective way of reducing bias and creating an even playing field."
"[Confirm] creates a fairer playing field by expanding leaders' visibility."
Map organizational influence, not just org chart position
Organizational Network Analysis shows you who's actually driving decisions, information flow, and cross-team coordination. Not who has the biggest title. ONA data auto-generates from Slack, email, GitHub, and calendar, and produces influence maps that show where organizational authority actually lives. That's where your real successors are.
Real organizational authority vs. formal authority
ONA reveals who people actually go to for decisions, guidance, and problem-solving. These are the people your succession plan needs, regardless of their current title.
Departure simulation
Model what happens to information flow if a specific person leaves. See which teams lose their bridge, where knowledge concentrates, and where replacements are most urgent.
Find your key-person risks before they find you
The average company has 3–5x more key-person risk than leadership realizes. Confirm maps knowledge concentration, single points of failure, and over-reliance on specific individuals automatically. You see the risk before a voluntary resignation or sudden departure forces you to deal with it.
Automatic risk scoring
Confirm scores key-person concentration across your org and alerts you when risk levels change. No manual analysis, no waiting for exit interviews to surface what you should have already known.
Retention priority signals
When ONA shows high key-person concentration, Confirm flags retention risk. Keeping those people engaged is cheaper than replacing them and rebuilding the organizational relationships they held.
Build successor readiness with a plan, not just a name
A succession plan that says 'Sarah' is ready in 12 months only works if Sarah's actually developing toward readiness. Confirm tracks successor development against ONA-based readiness signals, so you can see progress, adjust plans, and walk into your next board review with actual evidence.
ONA-based readiness tracking
Track whether successors are building the cross-team relationships, influence, and collaboration patterns that the role requires. Readiness isn't just skills, it's organizational positioning.
Board-ready bench strength reports
Generate coverage ratios, readiness timelines, and succession confidence scores for every critical role. The format your board expects, built on data they can trust.
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