Stephane Boghossian
Very effective - now I feel we need to find a version that integrate “measurable results” like ⇒ 2x you startup operational efficiency, solve recurrent problem in half the time…” somethink like that 👍
For info here is what Michael put together regarding Proudly (his first ideals and plans on go to market) : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jbGQ1UGwchMCoahEUwHyNlAnua8-C-sq_hS-3igHsmg/mobilebasic
- Problem/Opportunity: Leaders often lack support in motivating teams and leveraging soft skills like motivation and employee engagement, leading to costly issues such as high attrition and lost productivity.
- Vision: Proudly is an AI-powered virtual coach designed to provide leaders with real-time, actionable guidance to help navigate daily leadership challenges and foster high-performing teams.
- Target Audience: The initial focus is on startup founders and CEOs transitioning from "makers" to "leaders" during a company's growth phase, when effective team leadership becomes critical.
- Key Features: Proudly integrates with tools like Slack, providing daily leadership insights, micro-exercises, meeting preparation support, and real-time behavioral guidance to improve leader performance.
- Roadmap and Prioritization: Core features like one-click integration, personalized guidance, daily planning, and reflection tools are prioritized for MVP, with additional features such as progress tracking and team feedback planned for future releases.
Michael Tucci - Paris / NY currently - YC cofounder matching platform
from NY - lived abroad 13 years
Consultant US → Germany / Kenya → INSEAD → Amazon Prime (4y) → Shopify Shipping → Hardware Product Development
- Introduce yourselves
- Brainstorm
- Practical updates
Questions
- How do we plan to scale Proudly's user acquisition, especially among startup founders transitioning to leadership roles? Outbound vs. Inbound?
- HR operation
- Team performance
- AI
- Collective intelligence
- Outsource team management
- Leadership
- Virtual facilitator
- Emotional intuitive, collective and intelligences
- Decentralized model
- Ask the right question
- Technology that Empower people
- How will we measure and optimize Proudly's ROI impact on key business metrics such as productivity, employee engagement, and leadership effectiveness?
- What growth strategies are we testing to ensure engagement and retention of users after the initial onboarding?
- Proudly is virtual coach help for managers - managers outsource management team?
- Role of each one
request form
user testing - feedback
Hypothesis: Managers want coach to prepare for difficult decisions?
Product Integration to Slack / Notion
Discussions
Competitors: Wisk for managers
Decision maker: Manager / employees / HR
Hypothesis that we want to solve first?
Managing difficult discussions =
= feedback, conflict, firing, underperformance, coaching team (advice, mentoring) = constructive + mentioning not working
A little video to start 🕶
https://www.loom.com/share/65476587e39b4beda072051fa1c31735?sid=98ae008e-1007-4ae9-b860-c98ab06a624e
Sum-Up from Call Michael-Stephane-Artus -- Friday 27th Sep --
I may have misinterpreted or forgot some important elements, feel free to comment and adjust accordingly 🙏
Key points :
👉The 3 anchors that drive our work (they help us decide, strategize, design, etc.)
- We focus on leadership that empowers people, making Work a place of self-actualization
- We develop AI to help Humans' express their emotional, intuitive and collective intelligences
- We are a lifestyle business, focused on generating benefits from day 1, with a self-managed and auto-adpative structure👉A key question to answer short term : how to quantify ROI for our clients? our "product metric", maybe team performance?👉Let's work in "discrete sequences" where we agree on a target delivery (e.g. an updated product version). This helps motivate our work and structure our autonomy. The first sequence will help us assess how the 3 of us work together.👉Let's start with what we already have : an MVP providing instance guidance to preparing difficult conversations and Brian as our ICP
Actions :
👉Define 10 words that drive our marketing, from product description to vision and SEO
👉Set-up Notion as our workstation - Slack serving for chats
👉Clean up actual MVP and adjust AI prompt for use by testers (Artus and Michael)
👉Define "hook" to motivate early adopters testing our current MVP (sentence each of us can use for cold messaging)
Proposal frame for work sequence 1
-- please comment and adjust accordingly 🙏🕶
OKR
🎯 Test our main hypothesis >> "
instant guidance to prepare difficult conversation is a must have. It has deep value that startup founders are willing to pay for"
🔢 With 20 feedbacks and actionable learnings from our target users
📅 By end of October
Work methods and values
👉
Autonomy
: each one of us is free to work when they want and how much they like.
We simply need to respect rules that protects the value we add to customers > a support request from one of Proudly's "users" must be answered within 12hrs. An internal team questions or request for support must be answered within 24hrs👉Authenticity : we express our feelings, opinions, disagreements
This comes with empathy and acceptating each of us as we are, without judgment. It serves our creativity and ability to step back.👉Support : we all are customers to each other.
As such, everyone of us can request active support from the team. This is part of our role.
👉
Decision by consent.
In short any proposal is approved by default - unless there is a veto by one of us (a vital danger is percieved) - and we help each other with questions
References that may help (also in Notion's page set up by Stephane)
👉ICP: See the detailed Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) created by Dan
(Dan’s profile:
)👉Latest MVP : to be adjusted by Artus and Michael before sharing to testers --
https://app.goproud.io/proudly
(and with (Code example 2616KxOn :
https://app.goproud.io/proudly?accessCode=2616KxOn
). The unique access code system might be too complex and could be simplified.👉Work notes and spaces
- Notion by Stephane :
https://www.notion.so/Proudly-by-Artus-de-Longuemar-103618b9d1f44e45bb17b28d7d33ae45?pvs=4
- Proudly brief by Michael :
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jbGQ1UGwchMCoahEUwHyNlAnua8-C-sq_hS-3igHsmg/mobilebasic
==> thanks a lot again to you both for those, great elements to frame our work in the following weeks ! 👌👉Master booklet v1 by Artus :
👉MVP history :
- v1.0 :
// Try Creating your profile or Check Steve profile : log in
& pwd steveproudly
- v2.0 :
https://proudly.flutterflow.app/
Product Details 💻😉👉Here is a short video to explain the actual product stack and re-explain development history (sorry if I don't speak too loud as I shot this video from the co-work ;)) :https://www.loom.com/share/546f5660237e4b4985bb91fc93ed3c42?sid=d3af4304-d37b-44d3-80f0-b59bbd2519e7👉Here is the design frame I used as a brief to Sebastian for designing the actual MVP (an connect it to the beta "hook journey" I had in mind) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1anOGQ16Zy6vn1ewFUzxzbvw2EsA826orkEvBE5QsibM/edit?usp=sharingAs always feel free to ask questions, comment and challenge !