Openbook vs SharePoint Smart Org Chart & Directory

Openbook is a team workspace organized into organizations, spaces, and rooms, with 21 room types for planning, writing, discussion, and tracking. Its build agent can connect to GitHub and GitLab repositories, make changes, run builds, and open pull requests. Organizations can use platform-run AI models or configure provider keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, xAI, Google, and Azure OpenAI. Built-in connectors include WordPress, Slack, Figma, Shopify, Stripe, Google Calendar, Cal.com, Calendly, five helpdesks, HubSpot, and Salesforce. Connector writes are disabled by default and require explicit enablement; irreversible third-party actions run only in auto mode. Files can be stored on Openbook, S3-compatible storage, Dropbox, or Microsoft SharePoint/Teams; default server storage is limited to 30MB. A read-only Board API exposes Kanban boards as JSON and supports change webhooks. Free costs nothing and allows up to 10 editing members and 3 spaces; viewers and guests are free. New organizations start with a 14-day Pro trial without a card. Business costs $15 a month. The intended audience includes product managers, founders, small teams, and agencies.

SharePoint Smart Org Chart & Directory is a free, open-source web part that adds a searchable employee directory and interactive organization chart to a modern SharePoint page. The directory shows employee photos, names, job titles, departments, offices, email addresses, and phone numbers, with search and A–Z filtering. Chart layouts include drill-down, vertical tree, and horizontal tree views. Reporting hierarchies come from Entra ID manager and direct-report relationships through Microsoft Graph, while profile cards can display Microsoft Teams presence. Five themes, card size, sorting, visible fields, and manager levels are configurable. The interface supports 30 languages and follows each user’s Microsoft 365 language setting or the site default. Charts export to PDF or PNG, and directory data exports to Excel or CSV in the browser. The client-side web part uses delegated Graph permissions; the maker says employee data stays within the tenant. A Global or SharePoint administrator must approve User.Read.All and User.ReadBasic.All. Installation requires uploading and deploying the .sppkg package in the tenant App Catalog, then adding it to a modern page.