Steady

Steady is the autonomous team coordination platform revolutionizing modern work.

The average knowledge worker spends an astonishing 23 hours each week on coordination tasks—meetings, context-switching, and chasing information—rather than the work itself. This “coordination tax” drains productivity, diminishes work quality, and contributes to burnout and attrition.

Steady cuts the coordination tax and reverses the downward spiral of productivity, quality, and engagement. It runs in the background, automatically distilling plans & progress from tools, teams, and people into tailored summaries that give everyone the clarity they need to make fast decisions and outstanding products.

Designed for today’s complex work environments—where information is fragmented across tools, schedules, and human silos—Steady seamlessly integrates into your stack, delivering speed-to-impact instantly. It transforms how organizations coordinate, multiplying capacity and capability without increasing complexity.

At its core, Steady implements Continuous Coordination, an open-source framework for high-performance knowledge work. This proven methodology promotes structured, asynchronous communication loops, empowering teams to make informed decisions and achieve alignment without constant interruptions.

Founder and CEO

Status Hero

Built and operated a SaaS tool that provided asynchronous check-ins, live goals, and status dashboards to tech teams. Bootstrapped and profitable to $1M ARR per employee.

8012 Labs

Built a handful of niche consumer SaaS products and served as an advisor to early-stage tech startups and web product teams.

Founder and Principal

Constant Contact

Led a small, crack team charged with envisioning and prototyping disruptive digital marketing offerings for Constant Contact's small business customer base. Drove innovation by applying lean startup patterns and generally working outside of conventional corporate approaches. Delivered working prototypes for product organization to work with and integrate. Reported directly to SVP, Product.

Director, Product Development

Opened New York City engineering office for the leading provider of software-as-a-service small business marketing products following the acquisition of Bantam Networks. Managed cross-functional and cross-geographical team charged with integrating the Bantam CRM tool suite, new technologies and processes into a complex distributed architecture.

Director, Engineering

Bantam Networks (acquired by Constant Contact)

Co-founder of startup that built award-winning web-based social customer relationship management (CRM) application Bantam Live. Principal software architect for the modular, Ruby on Rails -based subscription service. Hired and managed development team, created development workflow and practices, and established deployment environment structure and operations. Company acquired in February 2011 by Constant Contact, Inc.

Cofounder and CTO

Aperio Networks

Created web applications in both a consulting role and as stand-­alone ventures. Developed and maintained custom content management frameworks on top of both LAMP-stack and Ruby web platforms. Projects included EventSpan.com, WebinarWire.com, KeyPeopleDirectory.com, ConferencingNews.com. Clients included Cadbury Schwepps, Pusser’s Rum, The British Virgin Islands Tourist Board and Alternative Investment Group.

Cofounder and Partner

Independent Consultant

Developed, planned and executed database enabled web presences for small businesses. Contributed to several open source programming projects. Directed programming and operations for popular internet radio station Digitally Imported.

Sapient

Design, development and user-research lead for consulting firm’s Media, Entertainment and Communications business unit. Estimated, sold and managed $2-10MM multi-disciplinary development engagements for Fortune 1000 clients and startup companies. Participated in acquisition and integration of design firm Studio Archetype. Clients included Columbia House, United Airlines, CBS and Verizon.

Director

Studio Archetype

Created new role at award-winning interactive design firm. Responsible for interfacing with technology partners at company and client level. Built and managed company-wide team charged with merging the principles of user-interface design with the latest in interactive technologies. Clients included IBM, Kodak and First Union.

Director, Web Development

Big World Media

Founded interactive media services and web site development firm. Projects included internet roll-out strategy and implementation for corporate clients, database to web connectivity, real-time web content updates and CD-ROM based sales and training presentations. Personally created proprietary Internet content updating system for a premier traffic and traveler information reporting company SmartRoute Systems.

Cofounder and Principal

I've been building digital products and leading software teams for almost three decades. My experience includes engineering and product leadership roles in all sorts of organizations, from bootstrapped businesses and venture-backed startups to publicly traded companies. 

Over the years, I've been lucky enough to work, fail, and succeed with world-class creatives, engineers, marketers, and execs. I deeply understand what it takes to efficiently align people behind inventing, developing, scaling, and cultivating exceptional software products.

Today, I'm harvesting this experience to build and grow Steady, a simple approach to asynchronously coordinating work for software product orgs. Steady implements an open-source set of principles for modern knowledge work called Continuous Coordination, which I helped to create with my colleagues at Steady and other tech leaders.

Henry Poydar

SyncWords

VP of Sales, Broadcast & OTT

XL8.ai

XL8.ai is a Silicon Valley-based language technology company specializing in AI-powered translation and localization solutions. We offer a unique platform that combines advanced machine translation with expert human translators to deliver high-quality, accurate, and contextually appropriate translations.

Vice President of Sales

AppTek

AppTek's ASR platform is focused on delivering superior closed captions, data analytics and workflow efficiencies for broadcasters, OTT services and language service providers, among others.

Vice President of Sales, Media and Entertainment

Red Bee Media

Oversight of revenue development in the Americas, including strategic planning and partnership development in the media access arena.

Vice President Of Business Development

National Captioning Institute

Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Provides oversight of both English, Spanish and Web lines of business while exploring and developing collateral services and partnership offerings for NCI. Major clients include, ESPN, Hearst, CBS, Univision, Telemundo and Golf channel, among others.

Director, Business Development and International Sales

Atomika

Director, Business Development

Tangerine Studios

Oversight of all account management and business development functions, as well financial and HR consultation and execution.

Partner

Qfactor

Director, Business Development, Digital Media

J. Walter Thompson Specialized Communications

Oversight of both internal and external recruitment campaigns for several technology clients of significance, including Computer Sciences Corporation and SAIC. Campaigns included digital, environmental, and collateral.

Senior Account Executive

TMP Worldwide (Advertising Agency)

Account Executive

Expert in the display, analysis, implementation and management of systems supporting human- and AI-generated language data for over 16 years. My work supports both private and government sectors and the needs of the hearing impaired community across multiple languages and demographics. Deep experience related to the development and launch of successful global partnerships and GTM strategies. 

Business strategist with emphasis on tactical implementations that scale in support of business objectives and the communities they serve in captioning, translation, transcription, synthetic voice and other applicable channels. 

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