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The Six-Minute Assessment That Followed You Into the Meeting
The Predictive Index began with a wartime question about teamwork. Seventy years later, its business rests on a more awkward one: what happens after you hire the right person?
Workable and the trouble with “just email it”
A shared inbox can hire your first employee. Workable built a business around what happens when it has to hire your fiftieth - and now wants to handle the work on both sides of the offer letter.
BrightHR Put the Awkward Parts of Being a Boss in One Pocket
Leave requests, late shifts, payroll handoffs and risk assessments rarely belong in the same conversation. BrightHR built a business by putting them in the same app - with a lawyer or safety adviser available when the software runs out of answers.
Rypple Built an AI Coach for 15,000 Managers - Then Learned Advice Wasn’t Enough
Most leadership software gives managers another lesson and another login. Rypple’s bet is more practical: remember the people, prep the awkward meeting, track the promise - and charge less than lunch.
The $1.6 Billion Business of Making Labor Move on Demand
TrueBlue began with one Labor Ready branch and a blunt promise: put people to work quickly. Today, its apps, recruiters and on-site teams form an unusually broad operating system for the variable workforce.
Lattice
Lattice is a San Francisco-based people-management software company that helps organizations run performance reviews, set goals, gather employee feedback, manage compensation, and track engagement in one connected platform. Founded in 2015 by Jack Altman and Eric Koslow, it now serves several thousand companies and has leaned hard into AI under CEO Sarah Franklin, who joined from Salesforce in 2024.