The eight symptoms sit above the waterline, each wired to the cause underneath that feeds it. Pick one: the rest fade, its line lights and a pulse runs down to the cause.
What you seeWhich of these do you see?
The hub keeps the waterline. The symptom you came in by sits above it, wired to the cause you explored; the other causes wait below. Press Dive here to send a pulse down.
Where nextYour map so far
The principle wipes in on a teal panel, then steps aside for one outcome's delivery timeline. Tap a team to delete that dependency: its wait and its meetings vanish, and lead time rolls down from 14 weeks to 3.
Every dependency turns into a meeting.
Waiting on · tap to delete
After the principle lands, a small decision climbs the ladder one meeting and a few days at a time, then trickles back down. Flip “Push it down” and it resolves where the information already is.
Trial a new supplier for one monthReversible. The team has the numbers.
A 60-minute meeting, drawn to scale. Tap any agenda item that could be written down and it flies into the doc, with Archer suggesting which ones; the meeting shrinks to the 20 minutes that need people together. Tap a doc line to put it back.
Tue · Leadership sync6 items
Trade-offs, disagreements, decisions. Everything else can be written down.
Write it down
Nothing yet.
The plan goes green, bar by bar, except one. The camera follows that item into the other team’s queue, where ten teams’ tickets sit ahead of it: two hours of work, twenty-six weeks of waiting. Replay to watch it again.
Delivery plan · 0 of 8 done
Platform team queue
10 teams ahead of you
One dependency, one scheduling dance. 26 weeks later.
A hundred people in one meeting, recoloured by each finding in turn while the number rolls. The last finding turns the people into meetings and strikes out the ones nobody needed. Step through with 01, 02, 03 or let it run.
100 people in a meeting
Amazon’s one-way and two-way doors, built as real doors. Drag each decision onto the door it belongs to: the heavy one unbolts and swings shut with weight, the light one swings and flaps back. Wrong door, the card bounces back with the reason.
Sixteen people, each striped in the colours of the initiatives they’re split across, tangled to four goals. Press “Single-thread it” and everyone regroups into four one-colour teams under one leader, and the quote lands. Toggle back to feel the mess again.
16 people, 4 initiatives. Nobody works on just one.
The best way to fail at inventing something is by making it somebody’s part-time job.
The thing people say types in huge, a red line strikes it out and the rebuttal wipes in. Beside it, a live proof of why it fails: a steering committee that jams the network, an inbox that piles up, a room whose bill keeps rising. Switch the myth off to see the fix; tabs switch cause.
Your team sits in the middle. Press + for every team you need time from to deliver one outcome: each one joins the orbit, drops a recurring 30-minute sync into your week, and the hours roll up.
The test: if my team’s work needs effort from yours, to build, take part or review, you’re one of my dependencies.
The decisions waiting on you this week, as a stack. Swipe each one left if it can’t be undone, right if it could be undone next week. The piles fill, and the count tells you how much could be pushed down.
A real invite with one field that matters. As you type, a live judge tells an activity from an outcome, underlines the giveaway word and resizes the meeting to fit. Try the examples, or write your own next meeting.
If you can’t write it, the meeting probably doesn’t need to happen.
A real-looking week starts full, then empties. Drag the handle to compare before and after, and switch each fix on to watch its meetings vanish or shrink while the hours-back counter rolls up.
Andy’s story as a short film: the department, the hours, a payroll receipt that prints out to 70%, then the flip to teal and why we built Archer. Tap the progress bars to jump to any beat.
Where this started
Andy was consulting with a company with
0employees.
Onedepartment.
5 to 6 hours a dayin meetings.
When we puta cost on it.
One departmentOne day
Working day8 h
In meetings5–6 h
Each one bookedfor a reason
The real workin the gaps
Most of these meetingscould be changed.
We decided tobuild Archer.
Meeting intelligence software to cut the coordination tax.
Andy Wetherell · Alto Foundry
A scripted walkthrough of the real app, like a video but live HTML: a cursor names an outcome, sends a standup async, opens a Brief for me and supersedes a decision. Click any chapter to jump, or pause to read.
The pilot offer in three numbers, with a short express-interest form.
One team or department, ending with an executive readout
Every seat during the pilot: $25 a user a month, not $50
Every seat for the rest of year one, new ones included
$1,000for the 8-week pilot $2,000
Up to 50 users in the pilot. Nothing renews automatically. Prices in AUD ex GST.
Design partner pilot
Leave your details and we’ll be in touch about a pilot place.
We’re keeping the first group of design partners small, so we review every request before offering a place. Andy will email you personally within 5 business days.
What happens next
Rather talk now? Email hello@alto-foundry.com.au
The two founders as linked nodes, what they've done, how Alto Foundry works, and when the first pilots start.
Who’s building it
Archer comes from Alto Foundry, an independent product R&D lab. We build AI products for enterprise: for organisations whose work is complex and whose information is sensitive, where generic software doesn’t fit.
Andy Wetherell
CEO · Alto Foundry
Jas Hayer
CTO · Alto Foundry
Also from the lab: RedactAI, for preparing safer documents with AI.