LinchpinIQ maps the hidden single points of failure in your company — the people whose knowledge isn't written down anywhere — using the systems your team already works in. No surveys. No guesswork. Read-only. Results in two weeks.
Critical knowledge concentrates silently in a few people. Leadership only finds out where — the moment one of them resigns. By then the knowledge is already walking out the door.
LinchpinIQ reads the work your team already produces and turns it into an objective map of where your business depends on single individuals.
Grant read-only access to the systems you already use — Git, Jira/Linear, your CRM, your docs. Or hand us an export. Nothing is installed on anyone's machine.
LinchpinIQ resolves identities across systems and maps who owns what — which systems, clients, and knowledge live in one head and nowhere else. Then it scores every person on criticality × irreplaceability.
A ranked list of your real single points of failure, exactly what breaks if each one leaves, the dollar exposure, and a prioritized 90-day plan to de-risk it.
Every finding is backed by evidence — the actual commits, tickets, and documents that prove the dependency. No black box, no horoscope.
Your top key-person risks, scored and ordered by how much damage their departure would do.
For each critical person: the exact systems, clients, and knowledge that stall the day they leave.
The quantified cost of each dependency — so risk becomes a number leadership can act on.
Every score links to the work artifacts behind it. Defensible in a board meeting or a diligence room.
Prioritized actions — cross-training, documentation, targeted retention — to shrink each risk fastest.
A one-page key-person posture you can hand an acquirer, investor, or auditor on demand.
Stop discovering single points of failure during a resignation. Get an objective map of where the business depends on individuals — and a plan to fix the worst of it this quarter.
Run LinchpinIQ on a target before close, or across every portfolio company on a schedule. Turn "key-person dependency" from a gut-feel diligence checkbox into a measured, comparable number.
Most teams start with a one-time audit, see the map, and turn on monitoring once they know what's hiding.
No — and it's engineered so it can't be. LinchpinIQ measures where knowledge and ownership concentrate, not individual productivity, tone, or activity. It's read-only, aggregate-capable, and built to satisfy works-council and GDPR requirements.
Just your code repository (GitHub/GitLab) and your ticketing system (Jira/Linear) is enough to map engineering key-person risk. Adding your CRM and docs extends the map to client and institutional-knowledge risk.
A Snapshot Audit is delivered in about two weeks from the moment access is granted. Export-based pilots can move faster.
No. LinchpinIQ analyzes metadata and contribution patterns — who touched what, and how concentrated it is. We don't retain your source code or customer records.
That's one of the most common reasons teams call us. The diligence-ready summary turns "key-person dependency" from an awkward question into a crisp, evidenced answer — and the remediation plan lets you start closing gaps before anyone asks.
Tell us where to send your sample risk map. Connect read-only and your real one lands in two weeks. No sales pressure.
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