Ashby

What sets Ashby apart internally is how little it leans on meetings. The team runs an almost-no-meeting, documentation-first culture where people default to writing things down over scheduling a call. As one teammate puts it, "'this meeting could have been an email' isn't just a joke. People actually send emails here instead of defaulting to Zoom calls." Transparency runs deep, too: every employee has access to all of the company's revenue metrics.

Ashby is founder-led by co-founder and CEO Benjamin Encz and co-founder and VP of Engineering Abhik Pramanik. Encz started the company after seeing existing tools fail hyper-growth hiring needs at PlanGrid. Engineering runs on a stated "build for the long term" principle that shapes how the team invests in its product over time.