Motivation

As a technical manager, you started your career in a technical capacity with lots of tools at your disposal, the loveliest and most used of which was your IDE of choice. I’m sure you can think of 3 or 4 tools off the top of your head that you used daily. Can you imagine having done your engineering job without them?

Then you became a manager, and suddenly the landscape of tooling was abysmal. You have the HR-approved tooling that you mostly just use to approve time off and submit performance reviews with. Beyond that, you probably just use Word or Google Docs to keep track of 1:1 notes for each of your direct reports. They’re such big files that you rarely go back and read anything because it’s really hard to find. Then when review time rolls around, you fall prey to the bias of the present. You talk about their last couple of projects and can’t remember anything that happened more than 6 weeks ago.

What if you had an IDE for managing your team? Just like during your technical days, you had an IDE to help you with best practices, like unit testing, builds, compiling, etc. What if you had an IDE to help you with 1:1s, reviews, feedback, and other performance related things? Think of how much more successful of a manager you would be for your team if you had a world-class tool helping you rather than a tool for someone else that makes you feel like you’re just checking off a box.

And what if this tool was so good that your technical team actually used it to engage in their own career growth, resulting in them being more engaged and more productive team members? Those types of teams and leaders are rare. We build the tooling to create those outcomes and make your journey as manager as short and upwardly mobile as possible.

You may think of this as a typically HR tool, and you're right - it is! But we are here to partner with HR in order to enable managers and employees to do better at managing relationships in order for HR to manage more strategic outcomes.