Six time zones, one deadline, and no good way to communicate
Jordan Ellis had run distributed teams for over a decade when the pandemic hit and suddenly everyone was remote. The tools that worked well enough in person fell apart under the weight of full-remote work — too many notifications, too many channels, too many meetings scheduled just to share context that could have been a recording.
SyncTeam came out of a simple question: what if the default was async? What if you recorded a quick video instead of calling a meeting? What if the workspace stayed tied to the work instead of scattered across chat history?
We started building in 2023, launched publicly in early 2024, and now have over 14,000 teams on the platform. We're headquartered in Denver and intentionally run our own company the async way — no all-hands meetings, no daily standups.
