About Steady

Henry Poydar, founder here. A few years ago, my startup, where I served as co-founder and CTO, was acquired by a publicly-traded company. As part of the deal, my team and I were charged with swapping out a crucial piece of ten-year-old, highly-trafficked infrastructure—without customer disruption.

Our team quickly grew to dozens of people across engineering, ops, product, marketing, and management -- all spread out over several time zones. Meeting requests and pings of all sorts were coming in at all hours, across a myriad of channels -- chat, email, app notifications, etc.

Only about 5% of these messages really deserved my attention. But because I didn't know which 5% mattered, I had to triage them all.

I was awash in information and data, but still didn't have a handle on context: what was actually getting built, where the project was headed, and how I could be most useful to my team. It was a chaotic slog. We missed deadlines, the team was unhappy, and I struggled to move the needle despite working long hours.

To untangle this mess, I turned to a human approach: I asked my team to respond to a simple automated email each morning with their written intentions for the day -- what they planned to work on and why.

With that context, I could proactively manage their upcoming work rather than digging through "metrics" to react to misaligned work. The difference was night and day. We hit our targets. Morale was up. And most importantly, I now had a hands-on-the-wheel feeling of confidence in the team and the project.

But there was still one problem: all the information had to flow through me. What if everyone on the team had the right context each day to work proactively rather than reactively?

That supposition led to my next venture, Status Hero -- an application where the whole team could quickly and easily stay on top of the work that mattered, without back-to-back-to-back meetings and energy-sapping efforts to "get caught up."

Status Hero was great for individual teams and thrived as the modern work landscape shifted away from patterns of set hours and traditional offices. But as we talked to larger organizations, we kept hearing the same thing: cross-team coordination was the real problem.

Single teams could stay aligned, but coordination overhead exploded when you had five teams, ten teams, twenty teams. The standard approach of "let's just have more meetings" broke down completely.

With the ambition to fix modern work for organizations with multiple teams, we raised an initial round of funding, stacked the team with experienced distributed work professionals, and set to work building Steady.

With Steady, each manager and contributor gets a personalized, real-time feed with precisely the context they need from across their whole org -- without having to jigsaw together information at the expense of the actual work.

We built Steady on the principles of Continuous Coordination—our methodology for replacing coordination overhead with automated, structured communication loops. When you adopt Steady, you're implementing a proven framework that's transformed how hundreds of engineering teams work.

The typical digital workplace tool teams use decomposes work into fragments by design: Jira breaks projects into tasks, Notion breaks knowledge into pages, GitHub breaks changes into commits.

The result? Teams spend hours each day manually reconstructing context from dozens of scattered tools and the knowledge stored in people's heads. This coordination grind is the hidden tax on every multi-team org.

Steady takes a different approach. We incorporated AI and AI agents -- Echoes -- that continuously recompose those fragments using structured human insight. Steady uses AI from the ground up to create a living coordination graph that captures who's working on what, why it matters, and how it all connects.

This is coordination intelligence, not workflow optimization. Instead of making broken processes faster, we eliminate coordination workflows entirely, all while letting your existing tools keep on doing the jobs they were designed for.

No more manual status gathering. No more context reconstruction. No more coordination grind. Just the real work.