An integrated operating system for engineering managers.
A Notion workspace where people, one-on-ones, projects, performance reviews, and AI-tooling tracking connect into a single system. Designed for engineering managers with 5-50 reports, 1-5+ years in role.
Built around how the job actually works.
Most "engineering manager templates" are generic productivity systems with a few EM-specific labels glued on. The Engineering Manager Workspace is built from the database structure up around the actual primitives of the role.
People as the central entity.
Direct reports are the gravitational center. Everything else — 1:1s, projects, reviews, hiring loops — connects back to a person record. Open one place, see everything about anyone on your team.
One-on-ones designed for continuity.
Each session captures topics, commitments, and follow-ups. Last session's open items appear automatically in next session's prep. The "rules of the road" conversation lives at the top of every direct report's page.
Performance reviews that pull from accumulated evidence.
Rather than starting blank, review entries aggregate a year's worth of evidence captured in 1:1s, project notes, and feedback logs. The narrative writes itself from real material — not memory and self-reviews.
AI prompts embedded inside the workflow.
Not a separate prompt library. The 1:1 prep template includes the prompt for prepping it. The performance review template includes the calibration prompt. The hiring debrief template includes the synthesis prompt. Each prompt lives where it's useful.
AI tooling tracker as a first-class dimension.
Which engineers are using which tools, on what kinds of work, with manager observations about quality and velocity. The audit trail compliance is going to ask for in eighteen months — built before anyone asks.
Designed for working managers.
5-50 reports. 1-5+ years into the role. Familiar with the basics, drowning in the operational load. Not a first-time-manager course or a Building a Second Brain repurpose.
The State of Engineering Management in 2026
This workspace is informed by a research briefing on the five tensions defining EM work in 2026 — AI adoption pressure, productivity measurement, the one-on-one crisis, performance review breakdowns, and the first-time-manager failure mode. Read the full briefing to understand the gap this product fills.
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Subscribers get notified the day the workspace launches, with a launch-week discount before public pricing kicks in.
