👋 Hi there!
I've been making software products and leading teams for decades now. I love building things that solve problems for people, and I'm proud to call myself an engineer.
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 without losing their minds, and global public companies where a single decision winds through seventeen meetings before anyone writes a line of code. Each one taught me something the others couldn't.
But here's the thing I keep coming back to (that you already know): the hard part of building software is never the software. It's the space between people. The misread priority. The update that never made it to the person who needed it most. The meeting that could have been a sentence. (Or the sentence that should have been extended into a deep meeting.) 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.
And now the problem is getting bigger. AI is automating execution fast — agents build agents, and natural language is removing barriers previously overcome through UIs. But as execution disappears as a bottleneck, coordination and holistic context distribution becomes the real challenge. Agents are getting dropped into orgs left and right, but 77% of enterprises can't scale them past a pilot. The failure mode is always the same: autonomous work expensively and exponentially departs from what the team needs. The coordination layer for human+agent teams doesn't exist yet.
So we're building it. I founded Steady with people I trust: remote-work veterans from Sapient, Basecamp, and GitLab who'd seen the same problems from different angles. Steady is the coordination layer for human+agent teams. It keeps plans connected to progress and teammates — human and AI — connected to each other through shared, real-time context. No meetings, no dashboards, no chat thread archaeology. Teams will soon be working alongside agents as teammates, not just as personal assistants. We're building the system that makes that work.
Along the way, I partnered with other tech leaders to write Continuous Coordination, an open-source set of principles for structured async coordination. It's the thinking underneath the product and the future coordination layer for human+agent teams. If you're trying to make a distributed team run well, start there.
I also write The Steady Beat, a weekly newsletter for people running teams. If you're managing sprints, driving a roadmap, or just trying to make sure the right work gets done, it's for you.
If any of this resonates, I'd love to hear from you. Like all of us, I'm still figuring things out.