What does Crouton do?

Crouton maps who is working on what, in what role, at what allocation, and how that changes over time, the operating model layer that sits above HRIS, project tools, and spreadsheets.

COOs, chiefs of staff, founders, ops leads, finance partners, and special-projects owners, the people whose job is to know how the company actually runs.

How is Crouton different from an org chart or HRIS?

Reporting lines are not the operating model. Crouton connects HRIS, project tools, spreadsheets, and Slack/Docs into a single timeline of who owns what, past, present, and future.

Unified People directory, team colors, and quicker assignment edits

Over the past two weeks we combined Everyone, Newcomers, and Alumni into one People directory, added team colors to org charts, and made it quicker to add and edit assignments.

People directory

Everyone, Newcomers, and Alumni are now tabs on a single People page, with one People link in the sidebar and in search.

Search everyone and sort by Name, Recently joined, or Longest tenure
Switch between Cards and Table. Table shows each person’s title, teams, location, and tenure
See every team someone belongs to in the Team column, not just the first one

Admins can rename the page, change its description, and turn each tab on or off in My organization → Pages & navigation → People.

The People section of Pages & navigation, with Label set to People, Description set to Find people across the company., and switches for Directory, New Joiners, and Alumni

Org charts team colors

The Team view of the Deployments org chart colored by functional type, with Sales in sand under Go-to-market, Leadership and People Ops in teal under Shared, and Engineering and Product Design in blue under Platform

You can now choose the colors on your org charts by clicking the palette button next to the view tabs. Colors are saved for the whole org view, not per person, so everyone who can see the chart sees the same colors.

Faster assignment editing

Add assignment dialog

In Manage org view → Assignments, Add assignment now opens a dialog where you fill in the whole assignment before saving it.

Set the assignee, team, role, allocation, start and end dates, and whether they lead the team
If the table is filtered to a person or team, the dialog starts with them filled in
After you save, the table filters to that person so the new row is easy to find

The Add assignment dialog with Cathy Lee as assignee, Research as team, UX Researcher as role, 40% allocation, a November 2, 2026 start date, no end date, and a Leads this team switch

Edit assignments from a profile

Admins now see an Edit assignment button for each org view in a profile’s Assignment section (Edit assignments when there’s more than one). It opens that org view’s assignments, filtered to the person.

API: edit profiles, teams, and locations

The Crouton API can now edit your directory, not just read it. With a read-write API key, you can make the same edits as in the app:

Edit a profile’s name, email, pronouns, and phone number
Get and edit a profile’s description
Edit a team’s or location’s name and description
Upload profile, team, and location pictures

See the API docs for details.

Smaller updates

Click a Slack name on a profile to open a direct message in Slack
Profiles show a Leave date when someone has a departure scheduled
The Headcount report’s summary rows are now Total employees and Total allocation (FTE). Allocation values higher than total employee count indicates that at least one employee is over-allocated.
Profiles fall back to the photo from your HRIS when no one has uploaded one