Fast, structured team alignment before you lock a decision - hiring, process, product, marketing or anything cross-functional. BURST lets you gather consensus ahead of time, leading to better deployment of funds, resources and energy. The best thing you can do for your organization.
Hi PH Fam,
I'm back, this time with a personal doodad. This MVP started off as a proof of concept I made for a large enterprise organization. I'm happy to introduce you to:
BURST
www.sendaburst.com
BURST was inspired by the book Creativity Inc. about the founding and rise to power of Pixar. During their early days, the Pixar founders placed a great deal of focus on "early onset alignment" - in other words coming to agreement early in a process instead of later after things have gone awry.
How it works:
1. Create a call for feedback (affectionally called a BURST)
2. Fill out the necessary info, including the recipients
3. They respond using simplified answer-cards
4. BURST assembles an AI-powered intelligence document including executive brief, stats, sentiment analysis and breakdowns. It points out all the things you need to consider before taking action.
Why it's useful: even today, research indicates strategic alignment explains up to 80% of the difference in performance between organizations. Projects that establish early team alignment can deliver cost performance 6.5% below budget and enjoy 16.8x higher employee engagement. There are few bigger killers of organizational progress and productivity than misalignment between fellow decisionmakers and stakeholders, especially when deploying capital/funds is involved.
But enough with the numbers and the corporate stuff. BURST can be used for literally anything that can benefit from consensus:
* Ping your family members about what should be for dinner
* Send a BURST to your frat/sorority committee about various pledges
* Decide which dungeon you're squad is going to raid in WoW
This tool was vibe coded by me, no extra help, and I had a blast working on it. If it actually brings some utility and joy to the world that would make me even happier.
Hope you all enjoy. Ta ta.
Causality