Case Study: Ender builds an async-first work culture with Almanac

Ender cuts meetings and messages with Almanac in 10 minutes

Ender, a competition platform for kids, faced significant challenges in building team culture and managing communication after moving to a fully remote, distributed model. Their initial use of Notion for documentation led to inefficient feedback requests and difficulties in tracking and prioritizing collaborator input, which often necessitated live meetings and defeated their goal of an async-first workflow. This friction prompted their search for a specialized solution, leading them to the vendor Almanac.

By implementing Almanac and its core Reviews feature, Ender streamlined their collaboration. The solution provided a structured methodology for reviewing and approving documents, robust comment functionality for async discussions, and a clear Activity Feed for tracking changes. As a result, the team at Ender achieved fewer meetings and messages, increased transparency, and clearer decision-making, allowing them to successfully adopt a true async-first approach to work.

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