Introduction to Steady

I’m going to show you a lightweight drop-in system for eliminating your team’s coordination overhead starting today.

I’m Henry Poydar. I’m the founder of Steady. I’ve been building software products and leading teams for decades.

Every team or org needs two coordination loops to function.

First, a big picture loop that constantly connects plans to progress. This loop is generally oriented around a project, a sprint, a campaign, an OKR, or some other container of work.

Second, a ground level loop that connects individuals to teams. As we work together on the big picture stuff, we need to constantly understand who’s doing what and why day to day or week to week.

The problem is that the status quo for maintaining these loops is a duct tape effort at best. We have chat threads, spreadsheets, meetings, coding agents, issue trackers, and dashboards, but nothing to make sense of it all.

It’s inefficient, inconsistent, and incomplete. In fact, peer reviewed studies tell us we’re wasting sixty percent of our time in this work about work and having twice as many meetings as we did in 2019.

Enter Steady.

Steady is a lightweight teamwork OS that runs both of these loops for you.

AI agents continuously distill updates and activity into personalized intelligence so everyone stays aligned and informed all automatically.

Here’s how it works.

First, Steady connects your entire stack, gathering activity across teams and time zones from tools like Jira, GitHub, Zoom, Google Calendar, and more.

Second, teammates share quick updates for the big picture and ground level loops.Automatic reminders and AI drafts keep friction for that really low.

Third, Steady automatically distills activity and updates into personalized intelligence delivered when you need it via app, Slack, MS Teams, or email.

Let me show you an example of how all this comes together in our desktop app. I’m logged in here as Adrian, a team lead at Quantronica, a tech company of roughly a hundred and fifteen people across fifteen teams.

This is the daily digest where the big picture and ground level loops come together, but personalized for Adrian. Here we can see an update to the big picture loop, the launch PSC project, and an update to the ground level loop, what’s happening today on the API and data team. Instead, we call the big picture loop Goal Stories. For Quantronica, these are mapped to current projects.

But Goal Stories are flexible. You can map them to things like sprints, roadmap milestones, or OKRs. Whatever makes sense for you and your team and the tools you use already. Here, Adrian can see all of the goal stories throughout the org or filter them to see them team by team.

Let’s take a look at the launch PSC Goal Story. It has a brief of the project and links out to context from Jira and Notion. And below that, we see updates to this project, constantly closing the loop between plans and progress.

Every week or so, Steady will remind Adrian to update this sub goal that he’s in charge of. We make it super simple for Adrian to pull in whatever he needs for this update. And now everyone involved will get this update pushed to their feeds automatically. At the ground level for the API and data team, we can see here a summary of Smart Check-ins from individual team members, including highlights, blockers, and activity from tools.

Steady Smart Check-ins are also painless, designed to replace what would otherwise be a tedious team status meeting. Adrian can just quick fill what happened based on his last check-in and tool updates, add some context for teammates, and get back to work. So that’s how Steady keeps both coordination loops running, complete, consistent, and low effort. But there’s one more thing I want to show you.

With Echoes, you can configure your own custom coordination agents. Pick one of the presets or add your own, set a schedule, and Steady will push you this intelligence at the time and place you need it. Let’s say Adrian wants to stay on top of the blockers across his team. Now Adrian’s going to get this intelligence pushed to him every Monday at nine thirty AM.

Here’s another example Adrian can use to identify and mitigate project risk. And once again, he’s going to get this delivered to him every Wednesday at nine thirty with recommendations on how to address the projects at risk. Echo answers are personalized and scoped to the person who configured them, but you can easily share the presets with teammates or colleagues so everyone gets the same benefit.

So there you have it. Steady runs both coordination loops your team needs efficiently, completely, and consistently so you can get back to the work that actually matters.

If you’re concerned about security, don’t worry. We’re SOC2 Type 2 certified, all data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and we never train AI models on your data.

If you’re still here, email me at henry at runsteady dot com and I’ll give you some additional bonus credits to use Steady.

Thanks for watching!