Operator playbooks. Product essays. Category takes.
Stuff worth your time, from the team building workwrk and the operators using it.
Inside the KPI engine: how composite scoring works
A deep technical look at how we weight KPI achievement, manager review, peer review, and kudos into a single composite.
2026-05-08 · 11 min
CategoryWhat Workday taught us — and what it got wrong
Workday is a marvel of enterprise software. It's also why 90% of mid-market companies still run on spreadsheets.
2026-04-28 · 14 min
ProductWhy we built kudos into the perf system
Bonusly is a great product. It's also the wrong shape — recognition belongs in the system that values it.
2026-04-15 · 6 min
AIAI as runtime, not as chatbot
The category mistake everyone is making. Why workwrk doesn't ship a 'workwrk AI' — and what it ships instead.
2026-04-02 · 10 min
CategoryBuilding emerging-markets-first software in 2026
Why we ship INR, AED, and SGD as first-class — and what that means for product decisions every engineer should know.
2026-03-19 · 9 min
EngineeringEvery Tuesday: how we ship a v4 marketing site
How a 35-person company ships product every Tuesday without burning out or breaking customers.
2026-03-12 · 7 min
PeopleFive myths about performance reviews
If your perf cycle takes 6 weeks, it's probably because you believe one of these. Here's what to do instead.
2026-02-28 · 8 min