Run Your Next Lean Six Sigma Project Somewhere That Knows What a Tollgate Is.
SixGrid is project software for DMAIC, Lean, Kaizen, PDCA, and A3. Charters that live with the project, tollgate milestones, primary and secondary metrics, hard savings and cost avoidance broken out the way your finance team wants to see them. No generic PM overhead. No spreadsheet stitched to a Word doc.
Free during Beta. Full Teams plan access.
Built for people who run Lean Six Sigma work.
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Practitioners
You are running a Green Belt or Black Belt project and you do not want to manage it out of Word, Excel, and a shared drive again.
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Training providers and universities
You run cohorts. You need each cohort isolated, each instructor scoped, and each student doing real project work, not a PowerPoint two weeks before graduation.
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Internal program owners
You run a deployment across plants, sites, or business units. You need portfolio rollup, scoped manager visibility, and validated financial impact for the board.
A Lean Six Sigma project charter that lives with the project.
SixGrid makes the charter part of the project itself. Problem statement, goal statement, business case, project type, and belt level, all edited in one place. Attach evidence right where it belongs, and the whole team ends up on the same page.
- Structured problem statement, scope & goal fields
- Attach team, sponsor, and champion in one place
- Direct hand-offs into milestones, to-dos, and financials
- One source of truth for tollgate reviews
DMAIC, Lean, Kaizen, PDCA, or A3, built in and ready to run.
Pick a methodology and SixGrid lays out the milestones, tollgates, and to-dos for you. Use it as-is, tweak it to match how your program runs, or start from a blank project. And if your program has its own way of running, build it as a template once and every project after that starts from it.
Lean Six Sigma (DMAIC)
14 milestones · 77 to-dos
Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control. The full Six Sigma roadmap.
Lean
5 milestones · 17 to-dos
Eliminate waste and improve flow across five tollgate reviews.
Kaizen Event
4 milestones · 13 to-dos
Rapid improvement event. Four tollgates over a focused sprint.
PDCA
4 milestones · 13 to-dos
Plan, Do, Check, Act. Four cycles of structured improvement.
A3 Problem Solving
5 milestones · 15 to-dos
Root cause to countermeasure in five structured reviews.
Your Own Method
Your milestones · your to-dos
Build a template for how your program runs projects. Start from a stock method or a blank page, set the milestones and to-dos, and publish. It shows up in the template picker for your whole organization.
Milestones, tollgates, and to-dos, all in one view.
In Lean Six Sigma, milestones aren't arbitrary checkpoints, they're phase gates. Define review. Measure review. Analyze review. Each one is a tollgate, and the to-dos underneath are the work you do to earn the gate.
SixGrid puts milestones and their to-dos in a single grouped view. Expand a phase, see what's open and what's done, assign work to team members, check off the tollgate criteria, and move to the next phase. Completed phases collapse automatically so you stay focused on the work in front of you.
Primary and secondary metrics, the way Six Sigma practitioners track them.
Set your primary metric with a baseline, current value, and target. The progress bar handles higher-is-better and lower-is-better automatically. Add secondary metrics for CTQs, KPIs, inputs (X), or outputs (Y) so the unintended consequences show up before your Champion finds them. Everyone on the team sees the numbers update as the project moves.
Benefits, costs, and COPQ, the way CI programs report.
Generic PM tools give you a budget field. CI programs need more than that. SixGrid breaks out hard savings, soft savings, cost avoidance, revenue increase, safety, and compliance. Operating expense vs. capital expenditure. Estimated vs. actual.
Every project also carries its Cost of Poor Quality: an annualized opportunity with the basis formula behind the number, plus notes and files attached so the working papers live with the estimate. As benefits come in, SixGrid shows how much of that opportunity you've captured.
Run full accounting, or run a COPQ-based model if that's how your program reports. One setting, org-wide. Either way, every number is classified, statused, and annualized, and it rolls up per project and across your portfolio in Program View and Reports.
When your Champion asks about validated savings, the answer is already there.
The whole program on one screen, ideas included.
Program View is where you run the program. Savings, costs, and project pipeline for every group, on one screen. Switch between all groups or one plant, site, or cohort. And when leadership asks what's next, Project Ideas holds every opportunity you've identified but haven't started.
- Hard savings, soft savings, total costs, and net hard savings
- Project pipeline. Active, Ideas, and Completed counts
- Click any total to see the projects behind it, largest first
- Managers see their groups. Leadership sees everything.
- Project Ideas, sorted by COPQ, total opportunity at the top
However you run your program, SixGrid fits.
Groups are the unit of organization. Every project and every person belongs to one. Managers see only their groups. The system handles the isolation so you don't have to.
For training providers and universities
Lean Six Sigma certification, one cohort at a time.
Run every cohort as a group. Each instructor sees their students and their student projects, and nothing from other cohorts. Students do not stare at a blank page wondering where the charter goes. They open a preloaded DMAIC sample mid-way through Analyze, see what a project in motion looks like, then start their own with the same template. Classroom on Monday. Real project by Friday.
You see the whole program across every cohort. They see only what they should.
For company program managers
One product. Every business unit. Full visibility.
Run every business unit, plant, or site as a group. Department leads get the Manager role and see only their area, their projects, their people, their group settings. You see the whole deployment, portfolio financials, project status across all units, who's doing what.
Invite practitioners into the right groups. Add Executives for read-only visibility to the board. Handle your whole Lean Six Sigma deployment in one place, with proper permissions built in from day one.
Real project management, shaped to Lean Six Sigma.
Every tool a working CI program needs. No add-ons. No upgrade tier. No “contact sales” for the part that matters.
Five system roles.
Owner, Admin, Manager, User, Executive. Properly scoped to groups. Read-only for stakeholders.
Seven project roles.
Project Leader, Associate Leader, Champion, Mentor, Financial Rep, Team Member, Creator. Matches how LSS teams are actually structured.
Dashboard.
My to-dos, upcoming milestones, my projects, organization overview. The first thing you see, the things you need to act on.
Organization-wide reports.
Status, type, belt level, group. Drill into any slice. No exports to Excel to see your program.
ViewFinal Report PDF.
One-click professional PDF with your charter, metrics, financials, milestones, and narrative. Tollgate-ready.
ViewFiles in one place.
Every attachment (to charters, to-dos, milestones, benefits, notes) aggregated on the Files tab. Drag and drop to upload, click to preview inline. Never hunt for evidence again.
Activity log.
Full audit trail of everything that happened on the project. Who did what, when. Read-only and always there.
To-do comments.
A threaded discussion on every to-do. Questions, decisions, and context stay with the work instead of in email.
Notifications.
In-app notifications with unread counts and deep links straight to the discussion. Email as backup when you're away, with a toggle for each type.
Trash and 30-day recovery.
Deleted projects, files, and templates go to Trash, restorable for 30 days. Nothing disappears by accident.
Export everything.
One click downloads your organization's complete data as CSVs, uploaded files included if you want. Your data is yours.
Custom organization logo.
Your brand in the sidebar for your team. Perfect for consulting firms and training providers.
Sign up in under a minute. Start a real project in under five.
Sign in with Google, LinkedIn, or email. Your sample project is already loaded, a real DMAIC project mid-way through Analyze, ready to explore. Your dashboard is already populated. You don't have to configure anything to see what the product actually does.
When you're ready, create your first real project. Pick a template. Start writing your charter. Add your team. The whole thing runs in your browser. No install. No IT ticket.
The details that actually matter.
What Lean Six Sigma methodologies does SixGrid support?
DMAIC, Lean, Kaizen Event, PDCA, and A3 Problem Solving. Plus "Just Do It" for smaller improvement work. Each has a built-in template with milestones, tollgates, and to-dos.
Can I build a custom project template for my organization?
Yes. Owners and Admins build templates in a full-page builder, starting from a stock method or from scratch. Publish a template and it appears in the project picker for everyone in your organization. Drafts stay private until you publish.
Can I use SixGrid for my Green Belt or Black Belt certification project?
Yes. The DMAIC template gives you the full Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control structure with tollgate reviews. The Final Report PDF produces a professional deliverable you can submit for certification. The Free plan supports one project. Enough to finish a certification project.
Does SixGrid work for training providers running multiple cohorts?
Yes. Groups let you isolate each cohort. Students see their own work, instructors (Managers) see their cohort, you see everything. It’s the cleanest way to run Lean Six Sigma certification programs online.
Does SixGrid work for internal Lean Six Sigma deployments?
Yes. Use groups for business units, plants, or sites. Assign Managers to each group for scoped leadership. Give Executives read-only access for visibility. Everything rolls up in the organization-wide reports.
Can I track financial impact like hard savings, soft savings, and cost avoidance?
Yes. Every benefit is classified by type (Cost Savings, Cost Avoidance, Revenue Increase, Safety, Compliance, Environmental, Other) and status (Estimated or Actual). Costs are classified by type (Operating Expense, COGS, Capital Expenditure, Other). Net impact rolls up per-project and across the portfolio.
Can I track Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)?
Yes. Every project can carry an annualized COPQ opportunity with the basis behind the estimate, plus notes and files so the working papers stay with the number. Organizations that report on COPQ rather than benefits can switch the whole account to a COPQ-based financial model in Settings.
Can I attach evidence to specific phases and to-dos?
Yes. Files attach to charters, to-dos, milestones, benefits, costs, metrics, and notes. Every attachment also shows up in a single aggregated Files tab so you can find anything fast.
Can I get my data out of SixGrid?
Yes. Owners and Admins can export the organization's complete data from Settings as a ZIP of CSVs, one file per data type, with an option to include every uploaded file. And nothing disappears by accident: deleted projects, files, and templates sit in Trash for 30 days and can be restored.
How does pricing work?
Free for one user and one project. Professional is $19 per user per month (or $180 per year) with unlimited projects and users. Teams is $349 per month flat-rate regardless of user count. During Beta, every account gets full Teams plan access at no cost.
Your Next Project
Stop running Lean Six Sigma projects in spreadsheets.
Your method and your team are ready. The tool finally is too.
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