Halden Coffee is a coffee company in the North with 48 people, four cafés, a wholesale trade, and a home subscription. Each use case follows one person at Halden, or a change the whole company went through.
Which of these sounds most like you?
By 2029, Halden is the coffee people ask for by name across the North.
- Win wholesale0%
- Grow subscriptions0%
- Brilliant cafés0%
- Roast at scale0%
Pick a flag to see which pillar it belongs to.
Sam runs Halden. Maya leads Wholesale, Dan runs the cafés, and Joe joined as a trade rep while the company was growing fast. The story about launching a strategy follows the plan itself.
They all work from the same plan, so a climb or an issue from one story often appears in another. Choose anyone to see their teams, their climbs this quarter, and the stories they appear in.
Each dot marks the person or the plan that a use case follows.
The leadership teams story follows Sam from Monday’s check-ins to the annual planning session.
- LeadershipTuesday 9:00
- Hire a head of coffeeCompanyOn track60%
Each person starts the week on the page that suits their seat. Ravi opens My Flow to check in, Maya opens her team page before the Wholesale huddle, and Sam opens the overview before the leadership huddle on Tuesday.
When Ravi marks his climb off track and says what’s in the way, each of those pages shows it straight away, so nobody has to pass the news on. Choose a status for Ravi’s climb to see each page change.
- Install and test the new roasterOff trackPriya
- Cut subscription churn to 4%Behind paceLeah
- Ravi checks in
- Maya’s team page
- Wholesale huddle
- Sam’s overview
These stories follow companies in software, ecommerce, manufacturing, professional services, the trades, and research and development. One more follows every department at an insurance broker.
In each company, the day-to-day work stays in the systems it already uses, and Headwater holds the plan that work is for. Choose a company to see the two side by side.
By 2029, Pintail runs the diary for 3,000 physio clinics across the UK and Ireland.
- Win clinic groups50%
- Keep every clinic46%
- Scale the platform48%
- The backlog, sprints, and bug reports
- Code, releases, and incidents
- Support tickets
- The sales pipeline
Booking and notes software for physiotherapy clinics. 42 people, based in Bristol.
Read Pintail’s storyEvery team at Halden uses the same Headwater, and each story uses some parts of it more than others. Choose a story to see which.
- Strategy mapYour vision, pillars, initiatives, and climbs on one live map.
- My FlowEveryone’s home page, in the order things need doing.
- HuddlesThe weekly team meeting, run live on one screen.
- PlanningClose the quarter and set the next one, step by step.
- Weekly check-insFive minutes on a Monday in place of a status meeting.
- Issues and decisionsRank the problems, solve them, and keep what you decide.
- People and 1:1sSeats, owners, and 1:1s laid out in the order they run.
- Headwater in ClaudeAsk how the quarter is going, and act on the answer in the chat.
The Headwater method explains how to run a company on one plan. It has six steps, which happen every year, every quarter, or every week.
- 1Set the directionWrite a vision and choose a few pillars.Every year
- 2Plan initiativesTurn each pillar into projects with an owner.Every year
- 3Set climbsAgree what has to be finished in the next 90 days.Every quarter
- 4Keep the weekly rhythmCheck in on Monday, then huddle as a team.Every week
- 5Solve issuesRank the problems, then solve them from the top.Every week
- 6Close the quarterClose each climb, then plan the next quarter.Every quarter
Book a demo and we’ll show you how Headwater would run your week, from the vision down to Monday morning.