For Co-Founders
Edition 01
The Quarterly
A 15-minute check-in for the two of you.
Five rounds.
Begin
Round 1
Snapshot
Where each of you actually is right now — before the agenda takes over.
Swipe
Right now, I'm more
…
Pick silently. Say it on three.
Building
Selling
Focused
Scattered
Heads down
Heads up
Energised
Depleted
Saying it
Sitting on it
Fine
Faking fine
Round 2
Rose, Thorn,
Bud.
Name what's working, what's not, and what's next. Alone first. Compare after.
Swipe
Answer alone. Then compare.
Rose
What's working — the kind of working we should protect.
Thorn
What's hurting — and we both keep dodging it.
Bud
What I'm quietly excited about but haven't said yet.
Think
A decision that paid off
A hire that's working
How we disagree
An energy drain
A bet we're making
A conversation we keep postponing
Round 3
Energy
Reading
Guess what they're carrying. They tell you how close you got.
Swipe
Guess first. They confirm or correct. Then trade.
The thing keeping them up at 2am is
…
The weight they carry that no one else sees is
…
Think
The burn
A hire not working
Fundraising
The team's mood
A milestone
A customer we might lose
The one metric
Round 4
Word
Association
First word that comes. Don't edit. Trade turns.
Swipe
First word that comes. Don't edit.
01
This last month was
…
02
At 2am my head goes to
…
03
What I'm dodging is
…
04
The next three months feel
…
05
What I owe you is
…
06
Honestly, I'm
…
Round 5
Vision
Say it out loud. Then save it for 90 days.
Swipe
Say it out loud. Then save it.
In 90 days, I want us to
…
What I don't want us to lose along the way is
…
Think
Shipped something that matters
Stopped firefighting
Found our rhythm
The 9pm walks
The shape of our week
Not hating Sundays
Each other's time
Save it for 90 days from now.
1
Open the Seesaw app.
Download it if you haven't.
2
Go to Activities. Select “Mini Games Capsule.”
3
Enter the code:
QUARTERLY
4
Both of you record a voice note.
Take a photo together. Optional.
Seesaw reopens it in 90 days.
No Seesaw?
Save it on WhatsApp instead.
Open your chat.
Both record a voice note — the two answers.
Set a calendar reminder for 90 days out.
Open it when the reminder hits. See what you got right. See what you missed.
Hope that was time well spent.
Next
Edition 02 — in 90 days.
The things you don't notice day to day get obvious when you look back.
A Seesaw quarterly. Built to repeat.