Career journal for

    Founders

    Founders forget what they did last quarter because the work shape changes every month. The retro is impossible without dated capture and the next investor update suffers for it.

    Bloomly is the career journal built for the moments the work actually happens, not the night before the review.

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    A captured day for a Founder

    1. 01

      8am: weekly leadership team meeting.

    2. 02

      11am: customer call with a strategic-accounts CTO; expansion discussion.

    3. 03

      2pm: 1:1 with VP Engineering on the H2 hiring plan.

    4. 04

      4pm: investor update writing for next week's board meeting.

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    What a Founder captures

    • Company growth metrics
    • Strategic bets and reversals
    • Hires who became long-term contributors
    • Operating-system and culture work
    • Investor and customer relationships

    ARR $1.4M to $4.2M (3x). Closed 4 reference customers personally. Hired VP Engineering and Head of Sales. Killed international expansion saving $4M.

    A line from a Bloomly report for a Founder

    Promotion rubric, mapped to capture

    • Company outcomesCaptured automatically through dated entries, auto-tagged against this dimension, and surfaced in your generated Performance Report and Period Recap.
    • Strategic betsCaptured automatically through dated entries, auto-tagged against this dimension, and surfaced in your generated Performance Report and Period Recap.
    • Hiring and teamCaptured automatically through dated entries, auto-tagged against this dimension, and surfaced in your generated Performance Report and Period Recap.
    • Operating systemCaptured automatically through dated entries, auto-tagged against this dimension, and surfaced in your generated Performance Report and Period Recap.

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    You don't write the founder review. Bloomly does.

    Closed Stripe at $640K ARR personally. They became our reference customer for the rest of the half. Thirty seconds in the moment. The full review writes itself from a year of those.