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“Drumlin is the one tool we could not replace. It is where the culture actually lives.”

How Wayfarer Labs runs a nine-timezone team on Drumlin

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Company
Wayfarer Labs
Insights from
Ines KowalczykFounder & CEO
Published
November 14, 2024

A bit of context

I'm Ines, and I founded Wayfarer Labs. We build the conversion layer for marketing teams — landing pages that respond to who is actually reading them. We are twenty-six people, and only four of us have ever shared a room.

“A thread can span three hours or three weeks. In channel chat, that conversation simply dies overnight.”
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Life before Drumlin

  • We were always catching up. Scroll back as far as memory allows, read forward, and hope nothing addressed to you happened at 3am.
  • Eleven unnamed group DMs with overlapping members and no way to tell what any of them was about.
  • Everything interleaved. One topic pushed the last one off screen, and both ended up half-answered.

The secret to success

  • An inbox that reaches zero. When it does, I am genuinely finished for the day.
  • A written record the whole company trusts more than our docs tool.
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