👋 Hi there!
Henry here. I've been making software products and leading teams for decades, and I'm proud to call myself an Engineer with a capital E. I've done it at every size of company: bootstrapped startups where I was the whole engineering team, mid-stage companies figuring out how to scale, and global public companies where decisions threads through a labyrinth of meetings before anyone (or agent) writes a line of code.
The thing I keep coming back to: the hard part of building software is never the software. It's the space between teammates. The misread priority. The update that never reached the person who needed it. The meeting that could have been an email. Talented teams slow themselves down with their own coordination overhead, and I've always believed there's a better way.
Now the problem is getting much bigger. AI is automating execution, and agents are taking on whole workflows. As execution stops being the bottleneck, coordination becomes the constraint. Agents need the same real-time context people do, and without it an agent will happily grind through a weekend of work the team reprioritized away on Friday. That's why most enterprises can't get agents past a pilot.
So I founded Steady with remote-work veterans from Sapient, Basecamp, and GitLab. Steady is the human-agent teamwork OS. Agents join as teammates: they check in, update goals, and pull live context alongside everyone else. People see what agents are doing, agents understand what the team is trying to accomplish, and the right work ships faster, not just more of it.
Under the hood are two open-source projects. Continuous Coordination is the method: declare intent, focus on outcomes, keep everyone current automatically. The loops that work for humans work just as well with agents in the mix. OpenRoutines is the framework for running simple, secure, durable autonomous agents that know how to work on a team out of the box. It's how I build my own.
I also write The Steady Beat, a weekly newsletter for people running teams. If you're driving a roadmap, deploying agents, or just trying to make sure the right work gets done, it's for you.