Your company is growing. Every hard conversation still runs through you.
Your managers came up through the ranks, so the hard conversations come up to you. Ren gives every manager and everyone on their team the words, in Slack and Teams, so they get handled where they start.
In Slack and Teams · Built on the Accountability Dial · SOC 2 Type II
Ren APP
Due this week: the handoff with Marcus
It slipped twice this month. Both times Dana picked it up.
Suggested words · Mention
“Marcus, the handoff slipped again Tuesday and Dana covered it. What got in the way?”
Where it gets stuck
Every hard conversation ends up on your desk.
Jonathan Raymond wrote Good Authority after realizing he was the bottleneck in his own company.
- 01
Something needs saying
A slipped commitment, two people who clash, a risk nobody named.
- 02
Your manager isn’t sure how
They came up through the ranks. Nobody gave them the words.
- 03
It comes to you
So it waits on your desk, with everything else that runs through you.
Ren breaks the chain at step two.
What each person gets
What changes for you, your managers, and everyone else.
You, the owner
Hard calls stop landing on your desk
- Fewer hard conversations run through you
- Reviews drafted from what happened, not memory
Your managers
The conversation that’s due, and the words
- How firm to be, so they start small and early
- 1:1 agendas drafted from the week
Everyone else
Honest feedback and room to grow
- The words to raise something up or across
- Their own plan, in a space that’s private to them
A week with Ren
Monday somebody notices something. Friday it has been said.
Any day
Someone notices something. Ren helps find the words.
Thursday
A two-minute voice note, or Ren reads the channels you add.
Friday
Three to five things worth saying, just for you.
The quarter
Reviews drafted from the record, across every manager.
Built for companies where managers came up through the ranks:
- Professional services
- Construction and trades
- Dental, medical, legal
- Agencies and brokerages
- Nonprofits
Day 90
How you’ll know it’s working.
You’ll feel it before anyone shows you anything. At day 90 we sit down with you and go through what Ren actually saw: the conversations that happened, the ones that kept getting put off, and where the work landed. By team, never by name.
Why it matters
Every one of these is a conversation that didn’t happen.
6 in 10
employees are afraid to speak up at work.
Radical Candor, The Trust Gap, May 2026
42%
of managers know what to say, but not how to say it.
Predictive Index, August 2026
61%
engaged with weekly feedback and recognition, vs 38% with feedback alone.
Gallup, October 2024
Start with the one you’ve been putting off.
Most founders start with The First 90: ren with your managers and their teams for 90 days, with Jonathan beside you.
- 7-day free trial
- $49 a person a month
- Private by design