Lots of folks have to submit weekly status reports to a manager. For many, the task can seem like a lot of work, without a clear result. Thinkfuse is working on that: making status reports easy to compile, and actually useful.
“There are problems in enterprise and big businesses, and even in small businesses, of trying to get the right information to the right people at the right time,” explains Brandon Bloom, co-founder of Thinkfuse. “One way companies and teams do this now is with status reports. The problem is that they get sent point to point, from one person to another, and they sit in an inbox, collecting dust. But they’re the subset of email that’s actually much more public and important and shared and loaded with vital business information, and it’s being underutilized.”
How does Thinkfuse’s new tool—called ThisWeekLastWeek—solve that problem? “It starts as kind of a workflow tool for people and project managers, to make sure that the right content gets put in reports and mailed to the right people,” says Bloom. “Then we provide additional layers of information and interesting stuff on top, like Twitter-style subscribe mechanics to make sure that everybody who’s interested and all the key stakeholders are getting the right information.”
Thinkfuse is a TechStars Seattle 2010 company, and Bloom says that while they could have achieved what they have without TechStars, it would have taken a lot longer. “We would never have had the same access to users and to the mentorship. All the different pieces of TechStars made sure that all that happened on a much shorter timescale. As a bonus, I’m now friends with everybody in the whole program.… If my company were to explode tomorrow, summer camp was really fun.”
More info:
Thinkfuse web site: http://www.thinkfuse.com/
ThisWeekLastWeek web site: https://www.thisweeklastweek.com/
Thinkfuse on Twitter: http://twitter.com/thinkfuse
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