✍🏽 Letter from the Editor: Check out The Hustle

As companies scale they get slower at pumping out new products. It seems inevitable. This week’s startup is trying to keep companies virile as they scale. Let’s jump into Monterey!

⚾ The Elevator Pitch

Product velocity gets slow and inefficient as company scales from 10 to 10,000 people. Product leads (whether a founder, engineer, product manager, designer, etc.) spend more time writing stuff out rather than shipping products and driving impact.

Monterey is changing that. Product leads will stop wasting time creating and publishing documents; stop sending emails to ask if a feature is ready for review; and stop finding blockers out too late. With Monterey, they can centrally track cross-team dependencies and conflicts while enjoying the freedom to focus on strategy without being held back by slow workflows.

👇 The Drop Down

Site: https://www.monterey.ai/

Founded: April 2022

Stage: Seed

Traction: Hundreds of waitlist sign-ups. YC ‘22 Batch.

Team: Chun Jiang | Ben Kramer

🔍 Why we like it

1. 🏃‍♀️ Speed is everything for leadersFounders & heads of product are desperate to keep things lean. Monterey is helping them reduce 2-week sprints to 1-week sprints and annual product planning to 30-day sprints. Monterey’s workflows significantly accelerate the delivery of strategic product plans keep the entire team on track.

2. 🤝 Meet workers where they workNot only is Monterey creating the right workflows tailored to the product at hand, they are ensuring that they stay relevant by making themselves available through things like Slack experiences, and consistency helping identify cross-team dependencies.

🤝 Get Involved with Monterey

• Sign up for Early Access

• Join their Slack

• Follow them on LinkedIn & Twitter