Peerdom vs Maptio: Organizational Mapping Platform Comparison

Maptio and Peerdom share a conviction that organizational structure should be visible, not hidden in someone’s head or buried in a spreadsheet. Both platforms help organizations map circles, roles, and responsibilities. Both reject the idea that an org chart is just a diagram you create once and forget about.

But they differ significantly in scope, philosophy, and who they are built for. Maptio is an open-source mapping tool focused on visualizing how a vision breaks down into initiatives and responsibilities. It is lean, affordable, and grounded in the “source principles” articulated by Peter Koenig and developed further by Maptio founder Tom Nixon in his book Work with Source. Peerdom is a framework-agnostic organizational management platform with 11 modular apps, enterprise-grade integrations, and a track record across 250+ organizations ranging from 3 to 30,000 people. It does not prescribe a methodology. It adapts to whatever governance model your organization uses.

This comparison is written to help you make an informed choice. Peerdom is our product, so we are naturally biased. But a useful comparison requires honesty, and that is what you will get.

What Is Maptio?

Maptio is an open-source organizational mapping tool founded by Tom Nixon, a UK-based coach, author of Work with Source, and advisor to creative founders. The platform is designed for purpose-driven organizations that want to visualize how their vision breaks down into initiatives, teams, and areas of responsibility.

Maptio’s core view is a nested circle map. Broader initiatives contain smaller ones, and you can see who is responsible for each circle, who is helping, and how the parts contribute to the whole. You can add people, assign roles, tag themes and goals across the map, and share it publicly via a URL or embed it on a website. A network view shows the links between individuals working together across different circles.

The platform became open source in 2022, with its codebase available on GitHub (built with TypeScript and Angular). Maptio’s pricing model is distinctive: rather than per-user charges, it operates on a pay-what-you-feel basis. Organizations contribute what they can, starting from $10 per month, with suggested contributions of $50 to $200 per month. This covers the entire organization up to 300 people. Free access is sometimes available for purpose-driven initiatives with limited funding.

Maptio is not framework-specific. It does not enforce holacracy, sociocracy, or any other methodology. Its philosophical roots lie in source principles and initiative mapping, which focus on making visible who has taken responsibility for what and how initiatives relate to each other.

What Is Peerdom?

Peerdom is a framework-agnostic organizational management platform. It maps how your organization actually works, regardless of what governance methodology you follow. Whether your organization practices holacracy, sociocracy, agile, traditional hierarchy, or a hybrid of several models, Peerdom accommodates all of them in the same map.

Peerdom does not see any single framework as the gold standard. It sees organizational clarity as the goal. The methodology is your choice. The platform adapts to your structure rather than requiring your structure to adapt to the platform.

Beyond the organizational map, Peerdom offers 11 modular apps: Goals (OKR, KPI, SMART, and custom frameworks), Projects, Directory, Journal (full change history with audit trail), Elections, Feedback, Drafts (model structural changes before publishing), Network, Insights (analytics), Pages, and Contribution. The platform provides a GraphQL API, SSO, webhooks, and connectors for Zapier, Pipedream, and n8n. All data is hosted in Switzerland with GDPR compliance.

With 250+ clients across 18 countries, including Bayer, Lufthansa, Greenpeace, MSF, and ETH Zurich, Peerdom serves organizations ranging from startups to enterprises with 30,000 people.

The Core Philosophical Difference

This is the most important distinction between the two platforms.

Maptio is a mapping tool. It answers the question: “How does our vision break down into the initiatives and responsibilities that bring it to life?” The map is the product. Maptio makes structure visible and shareable. It does not try to govern that structure, track goals against it, run elections within it, or provide analytics about it. The philosophy is intentionally minimal: make the map, share it, and let the organization use it as a reference point for clarity and alignment.

Peerdom is an organizational management platform. It answers a broader question: “How do we make our entire organization visible, navigable, and governable?” The map is the foundation, but it is also the starting point for goals, governance, feedback, analytics, change management, and integrations with the rest of your tool stack. Peerdom treats the organizational map as infrastructure that other organizational processes connect to.

Neither philosophy is wrong. They serve different needs. If you want a clean, shareable visual map of your organization without additional complexity, Maptio’s focused approach has real appeal. If you want the map to be the foundation for how your organization operates day to day, Peerdom provides the breadth to support that.

Head-to-Head Comparison

Feature	Maptio	Peerdom
Built by	Tom Nixon (UK), open-source community	Independent company (Switzerland), framework-agnostic
Primary purpose	Visual organizational mapping	Organizational management platform
Philosophy	Source principles, initiative mapping	Framework-agnostic: works for any organizational model
Org visualization	Nested circle map, network view	Dynamic maps with circle, tree, and list views
Role management	Roles within circles, tags	Roles with purpose, accountabilities, domains, plus custom fields
Sharing	Public shareable URL, embeddable	Public sharing, embeddable, plus internal navigation tools
Goal tracking	Tags for themes and goals (basic)	Goals app: OKR, KPI, SMART, and custom frameworks
Governance features	None	Elections, Drafts, consent-based processes
Meeting facilitation	None	Not built-in; integrates with dedicated meeting tools
Change history	None	Journal with full audit trail and red/green diffs
Analytics	None	Insights app: role distribution, workload, organizational health
Feedback	None	Feedback app with organizational context
Apps ecosystem	Single mapping tool	11 modular apps you can enable or disable
API and integrations	None published	GraphQL API, webhooks, Zapier, Pipedream, n8n, MCP
SSO	None	Microsoft Entra, Google Workspace, Okta
Open source	Yes (GitHub, TypeScript/Angular)	No (SaaS platform)
Data hosting	Cloud-based (provider not specified)	Swiss-hosted, ISO-27001, GDPR compliant
Pricing model	Pay-what-you-feel (from $10/month for whole org)	Free (10 users), then CHF 5/user/month
Scale	Best for 12-150 people	3 to 30,000 people across 250+ organizations
Learning resources	Mini Mapping Masterclass	Framework-agnostic onboarding and documentation
Notable users	Purpose-driven organizations, cooperatives, social enterprises	Bayer, Lufthansa, Greenpeace, MSF, ETH Zurich

The comparison table shows a clear pattern: Maptio focuses on doing one thing well (visual mapping), while Peerdom offers a broader organizational management platform built around that same visual foundation.

Where Maptio Excels

Maptio has genuine strengths that deserve recognition. These are the areas where Maptio’s approach provides real value.

Radically inclusive pricing

Maptio’s pay-what-you-feel model is unusual in the software industry and worth taking seriously. Instead of per-user pricing that scales linearly with headcount, Maptio asks organizations to contribute what they can afford. Starting from $10 per month, with suggested contributions of $50 to $200 per month, a single payment covers the entire organization up to 300 people. For purpose-driven organizations, nonprofits, cooperatives, and social enterprises operating on tight budgets, this removes a real barrier. Peerdom’s per-user pricing, while competitive, does scale with organizational size.

Open-source transparency

Maptio’s codebase is publicly available on GitHub. Organizations with technical capacity can inspect the code, contribute improvements, or potentially self-host the platform. For organizations that value software transparency or have concerns about vendor lock-in, open source provides assurance that the tool cannot disappear behind a paywall or change direction without community input.

Simplicity and focus

Maptio does one thing: it maps your organization visually using nested circles. There are no governance features to configure, no apps to enable, no integrations to set up. For organizations that want a visual map without the overhead of a full platform, this simplicity is a feature, not a limitation. You can be up and running with a shareable organizational map in minutes.

Source principles alignment

Maptio was built from a specific philosophical foundation: Peter Koenig’s source principles, as developed in Tom Nixon’s book Work with Source. For organizations and consultants who work with these principles, Maptio provides a natural home. The initiative mapping approach, which focuses on how a founder’s vision breaks down into progressively more specific areas of responsibility, is embedded in the tool’s design.

Shareable and embeddable maps

Maptio makes it straightforward to create a public URL for your organizational map and embed it on a website. For organizations that want external stakeholders, partners, or the public to understand their structure, this sharing capability is well-implemented and central to the product.

Community-oriented ethos

Maptio positions itself as a tool for purpose-driven initiatives, and its pricing, philosophy, and community engagement reflect that. Tom Nixon’s active presence in the self-management community, combined with partnerships with coaches and consultants who serve progressive organizations, creates an ecosystem that resonates with mission-driven teams.

Where Peerdom Excels

Peerdom was built to solve a broader problem than Maptio. Not just “how do we visualize our structure?” but “how do we make our organization navigable, governable, and measurable?” That scope shapes every strength below.

Framework-agnostic organizational management

Peerdom supports any governance model: holacracy, sociocracy, agile, Beta Codex, Teal, the Spotify model, traditional hierarchy, or any hybrid. Most organizations in practice are hybrids. One department runs sociocratic circles, another uses agile squad structures, a third follows responsive organization principles. Peerdom maps whatever you have and lets different parts of the organization operate under different models within the same platform.

This flexibility also means Peerdom serves organizations at every stage of their journey. You can start with a traditional org chart, introduce role-based governance in one team, and expand from there. For more on this approach, see how to implement role-based governance.

“During the process of mapping out the way our company currently worked with Peerdom, it was like a revelation…we learned things about our 20 year old company that we never saw before and were so much the richer for it.” — Sean Daly, Director, SOLID Structures & Infrastructure

11 modular apps

Where Maptio is a mapping tool, Peerdom is a platform. The 11 apps extend the organizational map into daily operations:

• Goals: track OKRs, KPIs, SMART goals, and custom frameworks directly on the map
• Projects: assign projects to roles and teams with visible ownership
• Elections: run consent-based elections with multiple election methods
• Feedback: collect and provide feedback in organizational context
• Insights: analytics on role distribution, workload, and organizational health
• Directory: a searchable people directory connected to the structure
• Journal: a full audit trail of every structural change with red/green diffs
• Drafts: model and review structural changes before publishing
• Network: visualize relationships and connections across the organization
• Pages: attach documentation to any part of the structure
• Contribution: track individual contributions across roles

Each app is modular. You enable what you need and disable the rest. Start with the map, add Goals when you are ready for OKR tracking, add Elections when you want formal governance, add Journal when you need an audit trail. Explore the full set on the apps page.

Visual depth with multiple views

Both platforms visualize organizational structure, but Peerdom offers more navigation options. Circle views show nested governance structures, tree views show hierarchical perspective, and list views provide a flat, searchable directory. Roles, teams, goals, and projects are all visible on the map, color-coded and interactive. Maptio focuses on a single nested circle view with a supplementary network view.

“We are impressed by Peerdom’s visual clarity and intuitiveness.” — Markus Eichel, Lufthansa

Enterprise-grade integrations

Peerdom exposes a GraphQL API with webhooks and connects to Zapier, Pipedream, n8n, and Microsoft Teams. SSO covers Microsoft Entra, Google Workspace, and Okta. MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration enables AI agents to interact with organizational data programmatically. Maptio, at the time of writing, does not offer a published API or third-party integration ecosystem.

Comprehensive change management

Peerdom’s Journal tracks every organizational change with red/green diffs showing exactly what changed, when, and by whom. The Drafts app lets you model proposed structural changes, share them for review, and publish when ready. This is organizational change management built into the platform. Maptio does not offer change history or draft-based planning features. For more on why change management matters in dynamic organizations, see dynamic org charts vs. static org charts.

Scale and track record

Peerdom serves over 250 organizations across 18 countries, from startups to enterprises like Bayer, Lufthansa, and Greenpeace. The platform scales from 3 to 30,000 people. Maptio is positioned for smaller organizations (approximately 12 to 150 people) and has a smaller team with more limited development capacity. Both approaches are valid for their respective audiences, but organizations needing enterprise-scale reliability should weigh this difference carefully.

“Smart, simple, flexible and transparent. A game-changer for truly agile organizations.” — Germain Augsburger, BKW

Data sovereignty

All Peerdom data is hosted in ISO-27001-certified Swiss data centers with full GDPR compliance. Switzerland’s data protection standards are among the strongest globally. For organizations in regulated industries, government, healthcare, or with strict data residency requirements, Swiss hosting provides an additional layer of assurance. Maptio’s open-source nature provides a different form of data control (you could self-host the code), though the hosted version does not specify its data center location. See the pricing page for Peerdom’s full compliance details.

AI readiness

Peerdom’s API and role model are designed to be accessible to AI agents. Organizations can assign AI agents as role holders within their governance structure, enabling human-AI collaboration with clear accountability. MCP integration means AI tools can query and interact with your organizational structure programmatically. Maptio does not currently offer AI-specific features or integrations.

Which Platform Fits Your Organization?

The right choice depends on what problem you are solving and where your organization is in its journey.

Choose Maptio if:

• Your primary need is a visual map of your organization that you can share publicly or embed on a website.
• You are a purpose-driven organization, nonprofit, cooperative, or social enterprise operating on a limited budget.
• You work with source principles or initiative mapping and want a tool aligned with that philosophy.
• You want open-source software that you can inspect and potentially modify.
• You do not need governance features, goal tracking, analytics, elections, or enterprise integrations.
• Your organization is between 12 and 150 people and you want simplicity over platform breadth.
• You value a community-oriented, radically inclusive approach to software pricing.

Choose Peerdom if:

• You want your organizational map to be the foundation for governance, goals, feedback, and analytics, not just a visual reference.
• Your organization uses a hybrid governance model, or you want the flexibility to evolve your model over time without switching tools.
• You practice holacracy, sociocracy, agile, traditional hierarchy, or something entirely your own, and you need a platform that does not assume any single framework.
• You need a modular platform where you enable only the apps you need, with no add-on pricing.
• Enterprise-grade integrations (GraphQL API, webhooks, SSO, Zapier, Pipedream, n8n, MCP) are requirements.
• You need comprehensive change history with diffs and draft-based change management.
• Swiss data hosting, ISO-27001 certification, and GDPR compliance are requirements or strong preferences.
• Your organization scales beyond 150 people, or you need a platform proven across enterprise deployments.
• You want to represent AI agents alongside human role holders within your governance structure.

The deeper question

The choice between Maptio and Peerdom comes down to scope. If you want a focused, affordable tool that makes your organizational structure visible and shareable, Maptio does that with clarity and simplicity. If you want the organizational map to be the operating layer for how your organization governs itself, tracks goals, manages change, and integrates with the rest of your tool stack, Peerdom provides that breadth.

Many organizations start by mapping their structure and later realize they need governance, analytics, and integrations built on top of that map. If that trajectory seems likely for your organization, starting with a platform that can grow with you avoids a future migration. If your needs will remain focused on visual mapping, Maptio’s simplicity and pricing are genuine advantages.

For a broader perspective on how different tools serve organizations at various stages, see the self-management software guide and the best org chart software comparison.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Peerdom do what Maptio does?

Yes. Peerdom’s organizational map supports nested circles, roles, people, and visual navigation, which covers Maptio’s core mapping functionality. Peerdom also offers tree and list views, custom fields on roles, and the ability to layer goals, projects, and analytics on top of the map. The difference is that Peerdom provides significantly more beyond the map itself.

Is Maptio truly open source?

Yes. Maptio’s codebase is available on GitHub, built with TypeScript and Angular. The project became open source in 2022. Organizations can inspect the code, contribute improvements, and potentially self-host the platform. The development team notes that local setup is currently not straightforward, and they are working on improving the developer experience.

How does pricing compare for a 100-person organization?

At 100 people, Peerdom+ costs approximately CHF 500 per month (100 users at CHF 5 each), which includes all 11 apps, SSO, API access, and Swiss hosting. Maptio’s pay-what-you-feel model means the cost depends on what the organization chooses to contribute, starting from $10 per month, with a suggested range of $50 to $200 per month for the entire organization regardless of size (up to 300 people). On pure cost, Maptio is significantly cheaper. On feature breadth, Peerdom includes governance, goals, analytics, integrations, and enterprise features that Maptio does not offer.

Does Maptio support holacracy or sociocracy?

Maptio is not methodology-specific. You can use it to map circles and roles that follow holacratic or sociocratic patterns, but the platform does not include governance-specific features like structured meeting facilitation, consent-based proposals, or constitutional processes. It is a mapping tool, not a governance tool. Peerdom also does not enforce a specific methodology but provides governance features (Elections, Drafts) that support distributed authority practices across any framework.

Can I migrate from Maptio to Peerdom?

Yes. Peerdom supports data import through its API, and our customer success team can assist with migration planning. The organizational structure you have mapped in Maptio, including circles, roles, and people, can be recreated in Peerdom. If you are considering a migration, book a demo and we will walk through the process.

Which platform is better for consultants working with multiple client organizations?

Both platforms can serve consultants, but in different ways. Maptio works with coaches and consultants as partners, and its shareable maps make it easy to collaborate with clients on organizational design. Peerdom’s broader platform provides consultants with more tools to work with: goals, governance, analytics, and change management. The choice depends on whether the consultant’s work focuses on mapping and visualization or extends into governance design and implementation. For more on the tools landscape, see the holacracy tools and practices guide.

Is Maptio still actively developed?

At the time of writing, Maptio’s GitHub repository shows ongoing development, though the team is small. Tom Nixon remains active in the self-management community, and the platform continues to serve its user base. Development velocity is more modest than larger platforms with bigger teams, which means feature requests may take longer to address.

Does Peerdom offer open-source options like Maptio?

No. Peerdom is a proprietary SaaS platform. This means you cannot self-host it or modify the source code. In return, you get a managed service with guaranteed uptime, automatic updates, professional support, enterprise-grade security, and a platform refined across 250+ client deployments. The trade-off between open-source control and managed-service reliability is a genuine choice, and the right answer depends on what your organization values more.

Ready to See Peerdom in Action?

If you are evaluating organizational mapping platforms, the most useful next step is to experience them with your own organizational data.

• Start mapping for free: Build your organizational map and explore the apps ecosystem. Free for up to 10 users, no credit card required.
• Book a demo: Walk through your specific needs with our team. Whether you are coming from Maptio, starting fresh, or evaluating both platforms side by side, we will show you how Peerdom handles your use case.

The best comparisons happen when you use the product yourself. No feature table replaces the experience of mapping your own organization and seeing whether the tool fits how you actually work.