Two Harvard students, countless late nights at Harvard Innovation Labs, and a shared vision to change how companies understand their own teams. This is how ReechOut was born.
Harvard Innovation Labs, 2AM. The whiteboard behind us has been erased and rewritten about 47 times. Coffee? Our fourth round. The idea? Finally starting to click.
Why does the person closest to the work end up being the last to know when something is going wrong?
It started with a simple question. Why does a founder or manager, the person closest to the work, end up being the last to know when something is going wrong? Teams grow, the leader can no longer be in every conversation, and the tools meant to help all wait passively for someone to log in and report. Most weeks, they do not. The result is leaders flying blind and the real story of the company sitting unspoken in people's heads.
ReechOut reaches out to every person on a team each day for a short check-in, and turns those conversations into one clear picture for the people who run the company. Who is on track, who is blocked, and what needs attention now. We did not automate this to replace human judgment. We did it to give human judgment better inputs, every single morning. And every one of those conversations builds something larger. A living memory of how the company actually works, the context that until now has lived only in people's heads. We are building the layer that lets a company understand itself, and that gives the AI inside every business the ground truth it needs to be useful.
Leads sales, partnerships, and fundraising. Background in workforce development and large-scale program delivery, with work spanning education policy and organizational leadership.
Leads product, research, and operations. Second-time founder, three-time International Math Olympiad participant, and a builder who has shipped AI products to real users.
Leads engineering and system architecture. Four-plus years building production software in HR technology, including enterprise systems used globally.
Signal over noise. Leaders should act on what is really happening, not on what fits in a form. People first. The person being checked in on should get something back: their blockers cleared, their work seen. A tool the team resents is a tool that fails. Memory compounds. What a company learns should not leave when a person does. The longer you run, the more you should know.
Every company is racing to put AI to work, and discovering the same thing. AI is only as good as the context it is given. The context that matters most, how the company actually runs, was never written down anywhere. ReechOut is building that missing layer, one honest conversation at a time, so that companies and the AI inside them can finally understand the business they are trying to run.
How we think about the next chapter of work.
Give every leader a true, daily picture of how their team is really doing, without the meetings and the chasing.
A world where every company has a living memory of how it works, and where no insight is lost just because a person moved on.
One honest conversation at a time. Signal over noise, people first, and memory that compounds the longer you run.
