monday.com is where teams track their day-to-day work, on boards with automations and dashboards. Headwater is where a company keeps its plan: the vision, the pillars and initiatives under it, and the few climbs each team has to finish this quarter. They are for different jobs, and a company can use both.
- Sign off the York floor plan2 Oct
- Choose the shopfitter9 Oct
- Strip out the unit23 Oct
- Hire the York manager6 Nov
- Fit the counter13 Nov
- Pass the fire safety check11 Dec
Halden Coffee tracks its day-to-day work on monday.com. The York café fit-out board has 62 items, and Dan, Freya, and Ellie update them every day.
The plan for the year is in Headwater. Fit out the York café is the Cafés team’s climb for October to December. It has one owner, a few dated milestones, and a status Dan sets each Monday. Its progress counts towards the initiative Open café five in York, the pillar Brilliant cafés, and the whole plan.
Choose a question to see where Halden finds the answer.
- In monday.comYork ordersItemStatusDueEspresso machinePSDone9 OctGrindersPSDone23 OctWindow signECWorking on it19 NovCrockeryFMWorking on it27 NovBar stoolsFMNot started20 Nov
Items on monday.com boards change every day. The plan in Headwater has a weekly and a quarterly rhythm, the same for every team.
On Monday, each owner checks in on their climbs in about five minutes. Later in the week, each team meets for an hour in its huddle to go through its climbs and solve its issues. At the end of the quarter, each team closes its climbs and plans the next quarter’s.
Choose a row to see each part.
Every Monday, each person with a climb checks in on it. They tick the milestones they have finished, say whether the climb is on track, and raise any issues. It takes about five minutes.
Dan Whitfield is Halden’s Head of Cafés, and he owns Fit out the York café. On Monday he checks in on the climb in Headwater, and on Thursday he leads the Cafés huddle.
On Tuesday, Freya raises an issue in Headwater because the landlord has still not handed over the bin store key, and the team solves it in Thursday’s huddle. The rest of Dan’s work on the fit-out that week is on the York board in monday.com.
No. Headwater has no boards, items, or automations. Teams keep tracking their day-to-day work on monday.com, and the company keeps its plan in Headwater.
Details about monday.com are from monday.com in September 2026. monday.com is a trademark of monday.com Ltd. Headwater is not affiliated with monday.com.
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