Ruth Calloway
Co-founder and CEO. Ran platform teams for eight years before building Orbit.
About
We build Orbit to show systems, not people.
Orbit is a small team in Westhaven. We believe a slow team is almost always a slow system, so we build tools that show the system.
01 / How we decide
Three principles
we keep, even when they cost us.
- 01
Measure the system
Metrics describe flow, reviews and releases. We do not rank people, and we do not build features that do.
- 02
Read less, not more
We read metadata and never file contents. When a metric needs more, we first ask whether the team needs it at all.
- 03
Say what it costs
Prices are per workspace, shown in full and before tax. No seat counts, no surprise add-ons.
02 / The people
A small team
you can talk to.
Emeka Dunn
Head of product. Wrote the first cycle-time model after a release that took nine days to ship.
“We stopped asking who was busy and started asking what was stuck.”