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

Steady Space Corporation

Steady keeps your entire organization aligned and moving forward, using an approach called Continuous Coordination. Where project management tools, wikis, and productivity tools break big ideas into smaller pieces, Steady brings them back together so that everyone's on the same page.

Founding Product Designer

Building a new way for remote and hybrid teams to stay in-sync with each other, their teams, and their organization.

As of January 2024, Status Hero is now Steady!

H-E-B

- Responsible for products, tools, and features for H-E-B's procurement team. 
- Led a new team to build cost management tools 
- Led a team to build a best-in-class assortment optimization application

Product Manager

RevUnit

- Grocery retail consultant
- Managed a team of designers
- Created RevUnit's customer centricity handbook
- Integrated new frameworks to track functional goals to business and client business objectives
- Managed account relationships for one of RevUnit's anchor clients

Principal Product Designer

- Led design strategy for one of RevUnit's largest clients.
- Founding member for a client's internal design system.
- Introduced and implemented modern agile design processes with our clients.
- Specialized in UX Design, Product Design, UI Design, Product Management, Project Management, and Workshop Facilitation.
- Responsible for coaching a team of RevUnit designers in UX and Product Design best-practices.
- Helped establish a culture that embraces remote design.

Sr. Product Designer

TEAMVVORK

– Worked with local clients to validate, prototype, and test early product ideas
– Designed and developed marketing websites and customer products for several clients
[Teamvvork was acquired by RevUnit in 2017]

FilmFreeway

Responsible for the brand identity, marketing, product design, and front-end application.

Partner, Product & Design

Ittybam LLC

– Co-Founder
– Lead design and WordPress development for several clients
– Developed company SOPs

Co-Founder

Peaceful Computing, LLC

– Lead front-end development on many client projects
– Created an in-house HTML & CSS template (before Bootstrap was popularized) 
– Helped SMB clients align their brand with online marketing presence
– Creating marketing materials for clients

Web Designer

Good Shepherd Ministries International

– Designed, built, and maintained various marketing and e-commerce sites for GSMI's child, non-profit organizations

UI/UX Designer & Wordpress Developer

As a design and product generalist, I have more than 10 years of experience in design, front-end development, and product growth. I've launched and exited two businesses and have been a founding member to four.

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