The Timeline Slider lets you see how your organisation has changed over time. Watch headcount grow, departments shift, and hierarchy evolve — all from a single, interactive control.
Every time ChartPull syncs with your Google Workspace directory, it takes a snapshot of your organisation’s aggregate metrics — total headcount, number of departments, average team size, and more. The Timeline Slider lets you scrub through these snapshots to see how each metric has changed.
Think of it like a time-lapse of your organisation. Instead of just seeing today’s org chart, you can answer questions like “how fast did Engineering grow last quarter?” or “when did we lose people from Customer Success?”
The Timeline tracks six metrics, all computed automatically from your sync data:
| Metric | What It Means |
|---|---|
| Total Employees | The number of people in your organisation at that point in time. |
| Department Count | How many distinct departments exist. A rising number may indicate team fragmentation. |
| Average Team Size | The average number of direct reports per manager. Industry best practice is 5–9. |
| Hierarchy Depth | The number of levels from CEO to the lowest-level employee. Deeper hierarchies can slow decision-making. |
| New Hires | People who appeared in the directory since the previous snapshot. |
| Departures | People who disappeared from the directory since the previous snapshot. |
The Timeline is a collapsible panel that appears at the bottom of the org chart screen. To open it, click the Timeline button in the toolbar (it looks like a small clock icon).
The interface has three parts:
Drag slowly for maximum insight
The animations are designed to draw your eye to the biggest changes. Drag the slider slowly and watch which metric cards jump the most — those are the areas that changed fastest during that period.The Timeline relies on snapshot data that ChartPull collects over time. Here is what to expect depending on how long you have been using ChartPull:
The Timeline panel shows a friendly “Collecting data...” message. ChartPull needs at least one completed sync to capture its first snapshot. This typically happens within a few hours of connecting your Google Workspace.
If you want to pull Timeline data into your own dashboards or scripts, you can use the Timeline API endpoint:
GET /api/ai/timeline?days=90days parameter controls the lookback period (default: 90, max: 365).Real-world scenario
ScaleUp Co — 500 employees, Series B startup
Priya, the COO at ScaleUp Co, opens ChartPull before a quarterly planning meeting. She clicks the Timeline button and drags the slider back to 90 days ago.
Watching the department bar chart, she notices that Engineering grew from 120 to 210 employees (a 75% increase) while Customer Success stayed completely flat at 35 people. The average team size in Customer Success is now 12 — well above the 5–9 best-practice range.
Armed with this data, Priya presents a compelling case to the leadership team: the company has been over-investing in Engineering relative to Customer Success, and Customer Success managers are stretched too thin. The board approves hiring 10 new Customer Success team members.
Without the Timeline, this imbalance would have gone unnoticed until customers started churning. The slider made the trend obvious in under 30 seconds.