We have been studying the habits of a healthy workplace for a long time.

What is the best setup for this team to collaborate at their highest potential, is the kind of challenge we like to solve for.

Original Manual Projects

In 2016, we started working alongside business owners, HR and Operations executives to create clear, approachable and compliant onboarding manuals and training materials. Over time we developed a style (a zine!) and a standardized flow of information (get the Notion template here). We worked with some of the most successful and creative entrepreneurs in our community.

This was an exciting time of learning and building bespoke physical products. But eventually we were asked, “where is the digital version?”

First Round of Notion Templates

In 2021, I became an early adopter of Notion. I nerded out alongside and learned from the top Notion creators including Marie Poulin and Benjamin Borowski. Eager to prove I was worth my salt, I set out on creating my own Notion templates selling them on my Gumroad page and going through Notion’s accreditation process.

Then the update of 2022 happened (IYKYK). My templates still worked but you could tell exactly what era they were from (the past). I felt that to be cutting edge, I needed to be looking forward, not back. I was squinting and careening hard into the horizon and suddenly these templates felt like an anchor at a time when I thought I should be riding the wave. I dropped in and wiped out.

I took a minute to re-evaluate how to position myself in this new era of productivity tools, automations and AI.

Notion is not the only solution but it can play a big role as the connective element that holds your tech stack together.

Kind of like the role our fascia plays in holding our bodies together.

Everyone can benefit from contextualizing the tools in their tech stack. Make the implicit nuances of your business or project explicit. If all the information, or even just pivotal pieces, only exist in your head, it makes your business or project difficult to scale - up or down or to come back to after a hiatus, for example.

When you start extracting ideas, resources, task lists, etc. from your head into a framework - I call this information architecture. Constructing information architecture from scaffolding into your dream dwelling takes time. But it’s an extremely valuable process because it helps you move from an operator, who has to do the work, to an owner, whose job it is to make insightful decisions about the work.

Think, The Ready meets Stacy Tuschl meets Leila and Alex Hormonzi.

If this sounds strange to you, it’s because this is a new way of thinking about organizing digital ecosystems.

We are making tech stack designing a lane.

I am looking forward to guiding you through our digital ecosystem design process where we integrate tech tools slowly and ethically by seriously considering the impact their maintenance has on your mental health - which will look different for everyone.