Founder mode
Run your company in founder mode
with Operationalize
Run your company like the best founder-led businesses. Operationalize gives you the same tools and frameworks that power companies like Nvidia and Airbnb. Eliminate politics, bureaucracy, and inefficiency. Focus on what matters most—high-quality output, fully under your control.
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What is founder mode?
Founder mode puts business leaders back in the center of the organization. It focuses on creating lean, efficient teams, led by experts, crafting quality work aligned with the product vision and reviewed and approved by senior leadership. Operationalize gives you the platform to support this organizational approach.
Founder Mode & The Art of Hiring
Brian Chesky, Founder Airbnb
Put business leaders back in the driver’s seat
Operationalize gives you all of the tools and functionality to run an effective, high-performance organization in founder mode.
Set the vision
Create a product vision and narrative and communicate it clearly with Operationalize's OKRs feature.
Set the pace
Define clear timeframes, cadenced meetings, and communication channels directly in Operationalize.
Set the standard
Define product quality standards—no one knows the product better than its business leaders.
How does Operationalize enable founder mode?
Our platform empowers business leaders and their teams with enhanced visibility, clear ownership, and the tools needed to define a company-wide vision and effectively align and manage all work and processes with that vision.
Gives you full control
No one knows your company better than you. Founder mode puts business leaders back at the heart of the organization. Operationalize enables this by providing unmatched visibility into people, workflows, and output.
Centralizes product vision
Centralize your product vision with Operationalize, align your teams around it, and ensure all work contributes to a unified goal. With Operationalize, you can map every role and business process directly to your product vision.
See how founder mode works in Operationalize
Run your business in founder mode by centralizing all workflows and business processes in one platform. Gain unparalleled visibility into how work gets done and evaluate every output directly within Operationalize. See how it works for business processes below.
Assign ownership for your Operationalize processes
Define roles and responsibilities across your organization using ownership frameworks linked to your processes.
Review meeting effectiveness
Operationalize records and stores all meetings, giving you a seamless way to review and assess their effectiveness.
Centralize communication
Operationalize syncs with Slack to create dedicated Slack channels linked to your processes.
Measure the impact of your processes
Connect your processes to relevant business metrics and easily track their impact.
Scale operational impact across your business
The more processes you add, the greater the impact. Track all work, communication, and outcomes within a single platform.
designed to achieve a specific organizational goal.
This tool brought in efficiency gains and helped make Toptal a world class company. It helped in running business operations and brought in transparency to the performance
Taso Du Val
CEO
Built and used by
Operationalize is built and used by Toptal, the world's largest remote workforce. We're now bringing over 10 years of expertise and experience to the market, giving you the opportunity to build on top of our success.
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Ready to Operationalize your operations?
Synchronize processes, metrics, communication tools, and execution across your teams—take full control over every operational aspect of your business with Operationalize.
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