§ 00

Kilter for startups

10–80 people

Your first processes,

without the bureaucracy.

At twenty people the founders hold the process in their heads. At sixty that stops working. Kilter gives young companies a light, repeatable way to run the work that keeps recurring.

Team size

10–80

Setup

1 day

Plan

Starter

§ 00

Kilter for startups

10–80 people

Your first processes,

without the bureaucracy.

At twenty people the founders hold the process in their heads. At sixty that stops working. Kilter gives young companies a light, repeatable way to run the work that keeps recurring.

Team size

10–80

Setup

1 day

Plan

Starter

§ 00

Kilter for startups

Your first processes,

without the bureaucracy.

At twenty people the founders hold the process in their heads. At sixty that stops working. Kilter gives young companies a light, repeatable way to run the work that keeps recurring.

Team size

10–80

Setup

1 day

Plan

Starter

§ 01

Where it hurts

Sound familiar?

§ 01

Where it hurts

What breaks

at this point.

01

Everything routes through a founder

Approvals, hiring logistics and vendor questions all queue in one inbox.

02

Process lives in Slack threads

Decisions are made and then lost two hundred messages later.

03

Tools before process

A stack of SaaS tools, none of them talking to each other.

03

Tools before process

A stack of SaaS tools, none of them talking to each other.

§ 02

Starter workflows

Live on day one

§ 02

Starter workflows

Five workflows

most teams start with.

Each one is a template you can adapt in an afternoon — stations, owners and time budgets are already in place.

01

Purchase approvals

4 stations

20 min

02

Hiring logistics

5 stations

30 min

03

Onboarding

5 stations

45 min

04

Vendor setup

4 stations

25 min

05

Incident follow-up

3 stations

15 min

§ 03

How Kilter helps

In practice

§ 03

How Kilter helps

What changes

in the first month.

Templates

Start from processes that work.

Pick from templates for hiring, purchasing, customer onboarding and incident follow-up. Adapt them in minutes, not weeks.

30+ starter templates

Edit stations without training

Invite the whole team free during trial

Oxbow Ops

Workflows

/

Shipment exceptions

Search or jump to…

⌘K

Live

IV

JK

MS

Overview

Inbox

12

Workflows

Projects

Analytics

Team

Integrations

Saved views

Overdue · all hubs

My approvals

Rotterdam intake

Shipment exceptions

Live · v14

Edited 12m ago by Teo

Test run

Publish changes

Trigger

Email or carrier alert

instant

Assign

By lane, hub, severity

SLA 15m

Process

Resolve with carrier

SLA 4h

Review

Hub lead approves

SLA 2h

Complete

Notify the customer

auto

If claim value > €10,000

→ Finance review (SLA 1d)

In flight

63

Breaching soon

4

Median time

2.6d

Auto-routed

88%

Station

Review

Owner

Hub lead (rota)

Time budget

2 hours

On breach

Escalate to Ops manager

Delegation

Allowed · named deputy

Definition of done

Damage photos attached

Carrier liability confirmed

Customer update drafted

Require reason on reject

Oxbow Ops

Live

Shipment exceptions

Live · v14

Trigger

Email or carrier alert

instant

Assign

By lane, hub, severity

SLA 15m

Process

Resolve with carrier

SLA 4h

Review

Hub lead approves

SLA 2h

Complete

Notify the customer

auto

Oxbow Ops

Operations

/

Overview

Search or jump to…

⌘K

Live

IV

JK

MS

Overview

Inbox

12

Workflows

Projects

Analytics

Team

Integrations

Saved views

Overdue · all hubs

My approvals

Rotterdam intake

Good morning, Ilse

Tuesday · 4 hubs · 248 open items

Today

Week

Quarter

New request

Open items

248

−12 vs last week

SLA health

97.4%

+1.8 pts

Median cycle time

2.6d

−0.4d

At capacity

3 people

Rebalance

Needs attention

5 of 23 · sorted by SLA

Review

Damaged pallet — RTM-2291

IV

Overdue 40m

Process

Customs docs missing — HAM-1184

JK

1h 20m left

Assign

Re-route request — ANR-0937

—

Unassigned

Process

Carrier delay — RTM-2307

MS

Today 16:00

Review

Rate approval €18.4k — RTM-2310

LB

Tomorrow

Throughput

this week

412 closed

+9% vs avg

SLA by hub

Rotterdam

98.9%

Hamburg

96.1%

Antwerp

97.7%

Duisburg

94.2%

Oxbow Ops

Live

Good morning, Ilse

Tuesday · 4 hubs · 248 open items

Open items

248

−12 vs last week

SLA health

97.4%

+1.8 pts

Needs attention

5 of 23 · sorted by SLA

Damaged pallet — RTM-2291

Overdue 40m

Customs docs missing — HAM-1184

1h 20m left

Re-route request — ANR-0937

Unassigned

Carrier delay — RTM-2307

Today 16:00

Visibility

Know what’s waiting on you.

One inbox for everything that needs your decision, with the context attached. Clear it in the morning and get on with building.

Personal approval inbox

Slack approvals in one tap

Weekly digest for founders

§ 04

Playbook

Your first 90 days

§ 04

Playbook

A plan you can start

on Monday.

01

Write down the three processes that hurt

Usually purchasing, hiring and customer onboarding.

Day 1

02

Turn them into lines

Use templates; keep each line to five stations.

Week 1

03

Delegate the approvals

Move founders out of the routine path with thresholds.

Week 2

04

Review monthly

Add a process only when the pain is real.

Monthly

§ 05

Results

Illustrative · demonstration customers

§ 05

Results

1 day

Typical time to first live workflow

5

Stations in a starter line

−60%

Approval emails to founders

−60%

Approval emails to founders

Saltmarsh Foods — customer story photograph

Customer story

Saltmarsh Foods

Suppliers tell us we’re the easiest customer to set up with. Two years ago we were the hardest.

Daniel Reyes · VP Procurement

8 days

Supplier onboarding, down from 21

Recommended plan

Starter

Up to 25 users with unlimited workflows — enough to put every core process on rails.

From $20 / user / month, billed annually

Questions

from teams like yours.

Ask us anything

§ Next step

Put your operation

back in kilter.

Book a 30-minute walkthrough on your own workflows, or start a 14-day trial with every Growth feature.

§ Next step

Put your operation

back in kilter.

Book a 30-minute walkthrough on your own workflows, or start a 14-day trial with every Growth feature.

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