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    The operating system for organizational change capacity

    Know which team has hit its limit while there is still time to act.

    SteadMark turns the conversations already happening at work into a daily read on how a change is landing, and gives the change function one specific conversation to have today.

    See what you get

    No surveys. No employee time. SteadMark works from the team channels you connect, and no one on your team is ever scored or ranked.

    7:30 AM EMAIL
    To: Tom Reyes · Tech Lead
    Delivered 7:30
    Today's ask. Ask Derek to lead a 30-minute peer training on Thursday.
    Why this person
    Derek has shipped this migration twice and tends to solve quietly on his own. Asking him to teach moves the pattern from isolated execution to recognized expertise.
    The opener that lands
    “You’ve done this twice. A few of us are stuck on the deployment flow. Would you run a 30-minute walkthrough Thursday so we don’t repeat what you already figured out?”
    One ask. One person. One opener.~90-second conversation
    The problem

    The tools that track change cannot see capacity.

    AI has put every company into permanent transformation, and the pace is set by shareholders, not by the people absorbing it. Leaders track that change with plans, status meetings, and surveys. All of it tracks the work. None of it shows whether the people doing the work have room for more.

    So initiatives stack. Employees now live through 2 to 10 planned changes in a single year (O'Morain and Aykens, Harvard Business Review, May 2023), and each one was approved on its own merits by a different sponsor. The strain stays invisible until it surfaces as a stalled rollout, a quiet resignation, or a survey that comes back months after the moment it mattered.

    SteadMark exists to close that distance. Not with another survey. It gives the change function a daily read on where the room is, and one conversation to have while there is still time to act.

    74% → 43%
    of employees were willing to support organizational change, 2016 to 2022. The willingness is being spent faster than it recovers.
    O'Morain and Aykens, Harvard Business Review, May 2023
    What you get

    One email. Before the day starts.

    It names the team carrying the heaviest load, the one person who needs a conversation today, and the opener that lands. You decide who acts, you or the manager you equip. The whole ask fits in a 90-second conversation.

    What do you log into?

    Your inbox. Every workday at 7:30 AM, the change function gets one email. Reply to adjust it.

    One email. Every workday.

    What do you get?

    One name, one ask, one opener. The email names the team carrying the heaviest load, the one person who needs a conversation today, and the opener that lands.

    One name. One ask. One opener.

    What can you do now that you could not before?

    Reach the team that is slipping this week, instead of reading about it in next quarter's survey.

    This week, not next quarter.
    What it works from

    Conversations already happening.

    SteadMark reads how the change is landing in the communication your teams already send.

    Slack liveTeams on roadmapEmail on roadmap

    Nothing for employees to fill out.

    No scheduled campaign, and no time taken from anyone's day.

    You choose the channels.

    Connect the team channels you choose. Disconnect any of them from settings at any time.

    Grounded in behavioral science.

    SteadMark reads how the change is landing, grounded in four decades of peer-reviewed behavioral science, and turns what it finds into the next conversation.

    Who it is for

    One product. Three angles into the same conversation.

    The people who lead change and the managers they support. Executive sponsors who need to know how change is landing across their organization.

    CHANGE PRACTITIONER

    Your methodology, carried to the morning it matters.

    You carry the transformation and the plan behind it. SteadMark gives you the aggregate read across every manager and every initiative, and puts one specific ask in front of each manager you choose to equip.

    See the role view
    Aggregate
    read across every manager
    • Aggregate read across every manager and every initiative.
    • One specific ask in front of each manager you equip.
    • No one on the team scored or ranked.
    • You decide who acts, you or the manager you equip.
    MIDDLE MANAGER

    Today's ask. Before standup.

    Five to fifty reports, a major change underway, and a full day of other work. SteadMark names one person, gives you the opener, and tells you why it will land, before standup.

    See the role view
    07:30
    delivered before standup
    • Today's ask. One person who needs a conversation.
    • Why this person, why today.
    • The opener that lands.
    • No performance scores. The daily plan comes to you.
    EXECUTIVE SPONSORRoadmap

    Portfolio-level change visibility. In development.

    Today, the aggregate read reaches you through your change lead. A dedicated portfolio view covering status and timeline indicators is in development.

    See the role view
    Portfolio
    read across every initiative
    • Aggregate read across all initiatives today.
    • Visibility through your change lead.
    • Portfolio status view on the roadmap.
    • Your team keeps working where they already are.
    What we believe

    Five values. One direction.

    These govern every feature, every email, and every model output. Read them in full on the Foundation page.

    1. 01

      Dignity is the product.

      Every feature is judged by whether it treats the person being described as a person.

    2. 02

      Say what the product does, and what it does not do.

      We name our data sources, methods, and limits in plain language to customers, to employees, and to ourselves.

    3. 03

      Earn the read before you give the prescription.

      A recommendation without evidence of understanding is a guess. We do not tell a manager what to say until we can show them what we noticed and why it matters.

    4. 04

      The customer is the change leader. The user is everyone in the org.

      We design for both. When their interests pull apart, we side with the people who did not buy the product, and we tell the buyer that is what we are doing.

    5. 05

      Default to small, daily, repairable actions.

      Big-bang change programs fail people. We ship in small pieces, measure how they land, and stay willing to roll back.

    Jim Sullivan, founder of SteadMark
    Jim Sullivan
    Founder, SteadMark
    Why SteadMark exists

    Built by someone who spent years reading rooms.

    Jim Sullivan spent four years as a paramedic preceptor, walking into rooms mid-crisis and acting on what he read there.

    Before that he studied the behavioral science underneath the read as an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett’s lab at Northeastern and the Winkielman Affect and Cognition Lab at UCSD.

    SteadMark is that read, built for the people who lead change.

    Read the full story →
    Privacy

    Named, and treated with dignity.

    SteadMark names specific people, because the conversation that helps has to reach a specific person. That is a design position, and it comes with four commitments that appear together every time.

    Aimed at the next conversation.

    Every output aims at the next conversation, never at evaluating the person.

    Helping someone re-engage.

    Recommendations frame as helping someone re-engage, never as fixing a resistor.

    The read-aloud test.

    Every output is written to hold up if read aloud to the person it describes. If it would embarrass them, it does not ship.

    No scores, no rankings, no labels.

    Managers never see anyone scored, ranked, or labeled by personality, performance, or risk.

    You control the dataDisconnect any channel from settings at any time. Pattern data deletion on request.
    Where we sit

    The next change is already scheduled. Find out if your teams have room for it.

    Methodology vendors sell training. Software analytics platforms track adoption clicks. Listening tools measure aggregate sentiment.

    SteadMark reads team conversations and gives the change function a daily read on where the room is, and one conversation to have today.

    Design partner conversations are open. 15 minutes with Jim, no demo, no deck. Contact: jim@steadmark.app

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