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From Prospus v1 to Kaamfu: a reflection on the pace of our decision-making
In the early days of Prospus v1, our digital services agency ran out of physical offices, with teams working side by side, sharing space, tools, and slow decision cycles. Surfacing and resolving obstacles often took hours as questions passed between desks, Skype chats, and busy managers. Today, Kaamfu has transformed that reality. By serving decisions directly to managers in a chat-first interface, it creates a continuous decision treadmill—enabling nearly ten times more decisions at ten times the speed.
Between 2011 and 2020, I built and ran what I now call Prospus v1—our digital services agency. We had a physical office in Noida, India, and another in Portland, Oregon. Every day, people showed up to work in person. Managers sat on the same floor as their teams. I walked the halls. Everyone took lunch and breaks together, and they all shared two restrooms. We used Skype inside the office alongside a handful of other tools.
Looking back, what stands out most isn’t just the physicality of it—the commute, the seating arrangements, the shared space. It’s how long it took to surface and resolve questions, problems, and obstacles. The drag was built into the system.
If a developer needed something they didn’t have, the process went like this: realize the gap, look for the right person, wait until they were available, ask the question—sometimes over Skype, often in person—and then wait again for them to be free. Every delay compounded into the rhythm of the day. Decision-making was slow not because people lacked effort, but because the system required so much waiting, shifting, and chasing.
Fast forward three years into Kaamfu, and the difference is staggering. Today, decisions are served up automatically in a small 100×50 pixel space at the bottom right of a manager’s screen, creating what I call a decision treadmill. Managers don’t toggle between tools or hunt through disconnected data sources. They get the right insight at the right time, in one place.
I can’t measure it with perfect precision, but I’ve compared timestamps from our old Prospus v1 databases against Kaamfu activity logs. The conclusion is simple: managers now make decisions nearly ten times faster than before. The method of measurement is also simple—count the interactions between subordinates and managers. Since every interaction is essentially a decision point, the count reveals an undeniable truth: there are ten times more decisions being made, and at a far greater speed.
What changed? Kaamfu. We’ve built a conveyor belt for decision-making. Instead of burying managers in emails, scattered comments, and siloed dashboards, Kaamfu delivers a chat-first interface for directing teams. It turns management into a continuous flow rather than a stop-start process, and the result is speed, clarity, and momentum that simply weren’t possible in Prospus v1.
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