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Adobe Workfront and the Case of the Missing Workday
The brief is incomplete. The approval is in somebody’s inbox. Adobe Workfront built a business around the hours that vanish between having an idea and getting it out the door.
Unanet and the Trouble with Winning
Winning a contract is the glamorous part. Unanet makes its living connecting the pursuit to the people, hours, invoices, and costs that decide whether the victory pays.
Asana Wants to Put Your AI Coworkers on the Same To-Do List
The company that tried to kill the status meeting now has a harder assignment: make humans and AI agents share context, handoffs, and blame without creating another layer of busywork.
BQE Had a Hit Billing App. Then It Bet $25 Million on Architects’ Messy Back Office.
The software company began with a garage-built fix for timecards and invoices. Thirty years later, its sharper idea is that architecture and engineering firms should not need a scavenger hunt to learn whether a project made money.
Dragonboat
Dragonboat is a product portfolio management platform that helps product leaders and their teams connect strategy to execution - linking OKRs and investments to roadmaps, delivery, and outcomes. Founded in 2018 by Becky Flint and based in Santa Clara, California, it now positions itself as a 'Product Portfolio OS for agentic enterprises,' pairing a semantic data layer across tools like Jira, Salesforce, and Zendesk with AI agents and apps for strategy, intake, roadmapping, planning, and delivery. The company raised a $12M Series A led by Insight Partners in December 2021 and is used by thousands of product teams worldwide.
ONES.com
ONES.com is an all-in-one project and knowledge management platform built for software teams. It bundles project tracking, a Confluence-style wiki, test management, and CI/CD pipeline integration into one workspace, with AI woven into every plan and a strong emphasis on on-premises and air-gapped deployment. Founded in 2015 and backed by investors including GIC and Source Code Capital, ONES positions itself as a unified, self-hostable replacement for Atlassian's Jira and Confluence for enterprise teams that need data sovereignty.
Monograph
Monograph is a San Francisco-based software company that builds cloud practice-operations software for architecture and engineering firms. Its platform replaces spreadsheets with real-time tools for project budgets, staffing, time tracking, invoicing and profitability forecasting, giving design professionals live financial visibility into their work. Founded in 2019 by three architectural designers, Monograph serves thousands of A/E firms and has helped manage hundreds of millions of dollars in projects.