What Orgonaut Keeps When a Scenario Goes Live
Scenario promotion preserves the previous Live state and the approved plan, giving organisational change a useful history.
Promoting a scenario changes the organisation’s Live View. It should also leave a clear record of the decision.
Orgonaut preserves two useful reference points during promotion: the Live state that is being replaced and the scenario that was approved.
The previous Live state becomes a snapshot
Before the scenario is applied, Orgonaut captures the current Live View as a read-only snapshot.
That snapshot preserves the structure, placements, and related organisational state that existed immediately before promotion. It remains available for historical review, comparison, and an eligible restore operation.
This is helpful when someone asks what the organisation looked like before a major change. The answer can come from the model that was live at the time.
The approved scenario remains available
Once applied, the promoted scenario becomes read-only as well. It records the plan that reached the promotion boundary, including the changes and activity that led to the approved state.
The new structure then becomes Live View.
Together, these records provide three clear points in the history:
- The previous Live View, preserved as a snapshot.
- The approved scenario, preserved as the applied plan.
- The new Live View, used for current operations and future planning.
That lineage makes later reviews much easier. A team can distinguish the state that was replaced from the proposal that was approved and the operating model that followed.
Treat promotion like a controlled release
The final promotion check should still cover placements, cost and FTE deltas, key exports, and stakeholder approval. Promotion is the point where modeled change becomes operational truth.
The history Orgonaut keeps around that step gives leaders a firmer base for follow-up decisions. It also makes it easier to examine an unexpected result without relying on an old slide deck or an exported spreadsheet with an unclear date.
This is a quiet feature, but it matters. Organisational change benefits from the same traceability we expect in other important operating systems.
The guides to promoting a scenario and working with snapshots describe the full workflow.