Today we reduced headcount by 22%. The business is the strongest it's ever been. So I think it's important to be direct about what I'm seeing and why.
First, I made this decision and I own it. I did it because the way to operate at the highest level of productivity is changing, and to win the future, ClickUp needs to change with it.
Second, this wasn't about cutting costs. Most savings from this change will flow directly back into the people who stay. We'll be introducing million-dollar salary bands. If you create outsized impact using AI, you'll be paid outside of traditional bands.
Most importantly, I have the deepest gratitude for those affected. We're doing this from a position of strength specifically so we can take care of people properly. Everyone affected receives a package aimed at honoring their contributions and easing the transition.
I only see two options: wait for this to play out gradually in the market or be honest about what I'm seeing and act proactively.
THE 100X ORGANIZATION
The primary change is that we're restructuring around what I call 100x org. The goal is 100x output. The roles required to build at the highest level are fundamentally different than they were a year ago.
Incremental improvements to existing systems won't get us there. We need new ones. That means creating enough disruption to rebuild rather than iterate on what's already broken.
The common narrative is that AI makes everyone more productive. It doesn't. Many of the workflows of today, if left unchanged, create bottlenecks in AI systems.
These roles will evolve. But waiting for that to happen naturally means falling behind now.
The 100x org is actually heavily dependent on people - infinitely more than today. This is only possible with 10x people that have embraced and adopted new ways of working.
THE BUILDERS, AGENT MANAGERS, AND FRONT-LINERS
— THE BUILDERS: 10X ENGINEERS
I don't think most companies have internalized what's actually happening with AI in engineering. The common narrative is that AI makes all engineers more productive. That may be true in isolation, but at an organization level - that is the farthest thing from reality.
Here's what we've validated recently at ClickUp: the great engineers, the ones who can orchestrate, architect, and review, are becoming 100x engineers. They're not writing code. They're directing agents that write code. The skill is judgment.
AI makes the best engineers wildly more productive, and everyone else using AI slows these engineers down.
Think about it - the bottlenecks are (1) orchestration - telling AI what to do, and (2) reviewing - what AI did. Everything is leapfrogged and no longer needed.
So who do you want orchestrating and reviewing code?
And how do you want your best engineers to spend their time?
If your best engineers are spending time reviewing other people's code, then this is inherently an inefficient bottleneck. These engineers can review their agent's code much faster than reviewing human code.
The new world is about enabling your 10x engineers to become 100x.
The wrong strategy is to push every engineer to use infinite tokens. Companies doing this are celebrating 500% more pull requests. But customer outcomes don't match the volume of code being generated.
I call this the great reckoning of AI coding, and every company will face this soon if not already.
More code is just another bottleneck to the best engineers, and ultimately to your company's impact as well.
— THE BUILDERS: 10X PRODUCT MANAGERS
Product management and design roles are merging.
Designers that have customer focus, become more like product managers.
And product managers that have intuition for UX become more like designers.
The bottleneck of user research is gone. It takes us just one mention of an agent to kickoff research and analyze results.
The bottleneck of product <> design iteration is also gone. The product builder iterates on their own, along with agents and skills that ensure alignment with quality and strategy.
Also controversial today - I believe that the wrong strategy is to have your PMs shipping code - that just introduces another bottleneck that the best engineers will waste their time on.
To be clear, PMs should be coding but they should do this in a playground to iterate, validate, and scope. That code should not go to production.
Everything outside of managing systems, orchestrating AI, and reviewing output becomes a bottleneck.
That's why the other roles that are critical along with these are the systems managers (to reduce bottlenecks) along with a bottleneck you can't replace - customer meeting time.
— THE SYSTEM MANAGERS
Ironically, the people that automate their jobs with AI will always have a job. They become owners of the AI systems - agent managers. We have many examples of these people at ClickUp.
The underlying systems in which we operate are absolutely critical to get right. I think most companies are delusional to think they can iterate on existing systems and compete in this new world.
You must create enough disruption so that old systems are deprecated entirely. If there's any definition for 'AI native' that's what it is.
— THE FRONT-LINERS
In a world that will become saturated with AI communication, the human touch will matter more than anything to customers.
This is a bottleneck that you shouldn't replace - even when agents are high enough quality to do video meetings.
One-on-one meeting time with customers is something that shouldn't be automated. The systems around the meetings should be - so that front-liners spend nearly 100% of their time with customers.
REWARDING 100X IMPACT
In a world where companies are able to do so much more with less, where does that excess money go?
In our case, much of the savings in this new operating model will flow directly back to those that enabled it.
We must reward people that create productivity accordingly. This aligns incentives on both sides. Plus, in a world where your best people create 100x impact, you can't afford to lose them.
You should aim to retain these employees for decades. The context they have and their ability to efficiently orchestrate and review will be nearly impossible to replace.
Compensation bands of today should be thrown out the door. We're introducing $1 million cash/year salary bands with a path available to nearly everyone in the company if they produce 100x impact by creating or managing AI systems.
THE FUTURE
Nearly every company will make changes like these. The ones that do it proactively will define what comes next.
The future is not fewer people. It's different work, new roles, and better rewards for those who embrace it. We're already seeing entirely new roles emerge, like Agent Managers, that didn't exist a year ago.
ClickUp is positioning to lead this shift, not just internally, but for our customers too. I've never been more certain about where we're headed.
🔴 NECESITO TU ATENCIÓN
Llevo una semana ayudando a Miriam en su caso de cáncer metastásico y quiero compartir la metodología que he estado usando porque es absolutamente replicable.
Pienso que, con suerte, puede ser ÚTIL A OTRAS PERSONAS con cáncer (o con cualquier otra enfermedad).
Los resultados que hemos conseguido no son un milagro, pero pensamos que son realmente útiles y pueden significar una diferencia crucial en un caso médico de vida o muerte.
Aquí va paso a paso el método:
1/ Usar los modelos más avanzados del momento (por desgracia de pago, y no son baratos, opino que Sanidad Pública debería invertir en esto):
- ChatGPT Pro + Extended (40min de pensamiento aprox por llamada)
- Claude Opus 4.6 MAX
Pendientes de probar a fondo:
- Perplexity Sonar Pro
- Notebook LM
2/ Dárselo MUY MASCADO a la IA todo el historial. Esto parece una tontería pero es muy importante.
- Lo primero que pido, con Claude Cowork que tiene acceso al disco duro, es que entre en la carpeta en la que está TODO EL HISTORIAL (pueden ser más de 100 pdfs) y lo unifique todo en:
- Un único PDF (puede ser de más de 1000 páginas o lo que sea necesario)
- Un único txt legible, que debe hacer correctamente usando un script con OCR y luego comprobar con lupa que está bien hecho.
Insisto: no saltar al siguiente paso antes de tener muy bien hecho lo anterior, sobre todo el txt.
3/ Una vez tenemos lo anterior utilizar este prompt junto con el txt y el PDF como archivos de entrada y lanzarlo en AMBOS modelos (y en más si es posible) a la vez.
👉 Os lo dejo aquí, este prompt es increíble complejo/avanzado: https://t.co/KEEWc8WNvW Está pensado para el caso concreto de Miriam, pero con los modelos del punto 1/ podrías adaptarlo a tu caso particular sin problemas.
4/ La PUNTA DE FLECHA enfrentando un modelo al otro: esta metodología no la he escuchado a nadie, pero funciona increíblemente bien. La sensación es la de ir afilando una estaca hasta que adquiere una punta reluciente.
Funciona así: con paciencia y en sucesivas iteraciones (aconsejo mínimo 5 veces, y en en cuenta que si ChatGPT tarda 40min te va a llevar un buen rato) enfrenta el resultado (el PDF) de un modelo a otro. Con un prompt sencillo del estilo:
"Otro comité de expertos opina esto. ¿Cómo lo ves? Si estás de acuerdo o lo contrario dime por qué, y genera un nuevo PDF si lo ves preciso".
El resultado se lo cruzas al modelo contrario. Así, en sucesivas iteraciones, búsquedas de internet, papers, etc. irán encontrando y afilando más cosas.
¿Cuándo acabar? Cuando AMBOS modelos digan que está perfecto y no puedan mejorar más el trabajo del contrario. Esto es tan absurdamente rompedor que pienso que los resultados de TODOS los modelos actuales mejorarían si siguieran esta metodología (apoyándose en una espiral rollo "adversarial model". No entiendo por qué nadie se ha dado cuenta de esto, si lo ha hecho, por qué no se le da más bombo. Funciona impresionantemente bien en cualquier ámbito, inclusive programación y matemáticas.
Es mas, mi teoría es que esto podría hacerse todavía mejor haciéndolo no solo con dos modelos: sino con una mayor combinatoria, añadiendo quizás Perplexity Sonar Pro, etc.
RESULTADOS
Increíbles. Obviamente no puedo saber si mejores que el mejor de los comités científico-sanitarios del mundo, pero le están dando a Miriam una nueva dimensión del caso, tests adicionales que hacer, posibles pruebas, etc.
Obviamente la IA milagros no hace, pero pienso que puede ya, a día de hoy, ayudar a muchos pacientes. Y Sanidad Pública debería invertir mucho, pero mucho, en esto.
Voy a preguntarle a Miriam si puedo poner el PDF completo de resultados más avanzado que conseguimos, para que os hagáis una idea de su calidad. Ya me ha dado más o menos permiso, pero quiero asegurarme 100%.
Te suben por enésima vez la cuota de autónomo o el % de IRPF como asalariado, que se une a la inflación, a un sector privado ahogado que no iguala al IPC, mientras sufraga el de las clases pasivas.
Ahorrar se hace imposible, lo que conduce a alquilar -por imposibilidad de comprar- en un mercado que está completamente roto como consecuencia de políticas desastrosas.
Y vas tú y te manifiestas por Gaza.