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#org-design
The playbook behind teams that 2x'd productivity in Q1
Hundreds of teams have connected their code and project data to Mesmer, and the ones that moved 2x+ faster in Q1 share a playbook. Humans stopped writing code directly, agents get triggered by alerts rather than by people, review moved off the human critical path in four stages, codebases were reshaped for retrieval, and pods shrank to two or three engineers per bet.
What I learned about hiring (and firing) scaling to 150
Hiring does not get easier as you scale, and firing fast is a fantasy for most founders — so build a company that hires slow instead. The mechanics that worked at 150 people: network downloads instead of "who do you know", mining interviews for names, one owner per hiring decision, 3 to 4 months of severance as policy, and quarterly skip levels.