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Managed by Q made everybody clean - even the CEO
An iPad could order the cleaner. Managed by Q’s harder idea was to make cleaning a good job - and turn the office’s daily annoyances into a business.
Mahima Chawla Turned Leave’s Paper Chase Into a Product People Could Trust
A colleague’s laptop-at-the-hospital story sent Mahima Chawla into the unlovely machinery of employee leave. Six years, 25,000-plus leaves and one acquisition later, her career offers a quiet lesson in building software for the moments when paperwork feels most personal.
Notion Killed the AI Add-On. The Meter Survived
Workplace software is folding AI into the plan, but the bill has not disappeared. It has moved into tiers, pooled credits and the permissions that decide who gets to make things.
The Startup That Turned the Office Supply Closet Into Software
Kathryn Madden built OfficeLuv around a boring truth: someone always ends up ordering the paper towels. Her bet was that the someone should be software - plus a person who shows up.
Kadence
Kadence is a workplace operations ("WorkOps") software platform that helps enterprises coordinate people, time and space across hybrid and distributed teams. Born from the pandemic-era pivot of wireless-charging startup Chargifi, the San Francisco- and London-based company unifies desk and room booking, visitor management, team scheduling, occupancy analytics and AI-powered coordination into one platform. Kadence is used by more than 10,000 teams across 40+ countries, including Boeing, Ashurst and BDO, and raised a $20M Series A in 2025 led by High Alpha.