👋 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 love building things that solve real problems, and working and learning alongside smart people.
I've worked at every size of company you can imagine. Bootstrapped startups where I was the entire engineering team. Mid-stage companies figuring out how to scale. Global public companies where a single decision threads through a labyrinth of meetings before anyone 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 made it to the person who needed it most. The clichéd "meeting that could have been an email." I spent years watching talented teams slow themselves down with their own coordination overhead, and I started to think there had to be a better way.
Now the problem is getting much bigger. AI is automating execution fast, with agents taking on more workflows, and natural language replacing interfaces. As execution disappears as a bottleneck, coordination becomes the real constraint. Agents need the same real-time context and coordination that people do, and that's why most enterprises can't scale AI agents past a pilot. The failure mode is always the same: autonomous work drifts expensively from what the team actually needs.
That's why I founded Steady with people I trust: remote-work veterans from Sapient, Basecamp, and GitLab who've seen the same problems from different angles. Steady keeps plans connected to progress and teammates – humans and agents – connected to each other through shared, real-time context. No meetings, no dashboards, no chat thread archaeology.
AI agents have stopped being just personal assistants. They're showing up on teams, taking on whole pieces of work on their own. At Steady, e're building the system that makes that actually work.
Steady is built on top of Continuous Coordination – an open-source method for structured async teamwork. It turns out the practices that work for humans also work for agents. If you're running a distributed team of humans, agents, or both, start there.
I also write The Steady Beat, a weekly newsletter for people running teams. If you're managing sprints, driving a roadmap, deploying agents, or just trying to make sure the right work gets done, it's for you.