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Niteo

Niteo turns the operating knowledge of a small open-source company into a living, contributable handbook on GitHub.
Operating system
  1. Open handbook
  2. Kanban flow
  3. direct ownership
  4. customer support
  5. shared profit and learning.

System principles

  • Keep process in open documentation team members can change.
  • Do not turn customer support into a specialist silo.
  • Share company outcomes with the team.

Tensions and trade-offs

  • Openness creates strong context in a small team while key-person risk and maintenance load remain.
  • Everyone doing support creates customer knowledge but interrupts specialist work.

PRACTICES

How Niteo builds its operating system

Primary sources

Niteo HandbookProfit SharingEveryone on SupportWork Process