Ours is a manager-of-one culture embracing horizontal practices.
Everyone everywhere enjoys high-quality, affordable housing resilient to the effects of climate change.
By providing the OS for retrofits with streamlined workflows and market transparency, help building owners accelerate the climate transition of existing multifamily buildings.
Buildings are for people, and climate change is shifting what they must do to protect inhabitants. As we renovate for emissions reductions, we must also upgrade buildings to shield residents from extreme heat, intense rainfall, and flooding from rising seas and stronger storms.
Climate change won’t discriminate, but marginalized communities are most vulnerable. In areas historically exposed to environmental hazards, building renovations can transform living conditions from chronically unhealthy to healthful.
We must accelerate building decarbonization. The sector accounts for up to two-thirds of urban emissions and has been slow to change. To avoid the worst of the climate crisis, we need to renovate existing buildings faster than ever before.
“A manager of one is someone who comes up with their own goals and executes them. They don’t need heavy direction. They don’t need daily check-ins. They do what a manager would do — set the tone, assign items, determine what needs to get done, etc. — but they do it by themselves and for themselves.” - 37 Signals/Basecamp blog
Horizontal practices are workplace habits and procedures designed to enhance everyone’s ability to make decisions individually and collectively. You can browse our guide to horizontal practices. We use Samantha Slade’s Going Horizontal as a starting point, and there are many other great resources shared by August Public.
We work where it suits us. Our office is virtual and no one, not even the founders, meets in person daily. We set our own parameters for availability, coordinating schedules with the people on our team who depend on us.