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Why We Built the Best EOS Software for Small Businesses

You’re already running EOS because you’ve seen how it transforms businesses. But here’s the problem: you’re paying for seven different tools to make it work properly. Every morning, your team logs into your EOS software for meetings, switches to project management software for Rocks, jumps to Slack for communication, then spends the rest of the day copying data between all of them.

Sound familiar? Your monthly SaaS subscriptions keep piling up while productivity plummets. You love EOS because it brought structure to your chaos, but now you’re spending more time managing software than growing your company.

We built Strety because we lived this exact frustration — and we knew there had to be a better way.

Built by Operators Who Lived the Problem

Back in 2016, we discovered EOS while building BrightGauge, our previous company. Despite an imperfect self-implementation, EOS brought tremendous calmness, clarity, and confidence to our growing team. The methodology worked.

Being software builders, we immediately saw the tooling gap. In 2018, we started building “Strety” internally as our own EOS software — a single platform for everything we needed to run our business properly.

After selling BrightGauge, we rebuilt Strety as a commercial product with a clear mission: create EOS software built by true operators, for operators.

The journey wasn’t smooth. We even got a cease and desist from EOS Worldwide before proving our worth and earning our official EOS license in January 2025. But every challenge reinforced our conviction: small businesses deserve software that consolidates their tech stack.

We built EOS software for small businesses because we lived these problems while growing and selling our own business.

Why EOS Works So Well for Small Businesses (And Why Your Software Doesn’t)

The Chaos That EOS Solves

Small businesses face unique challenges that most EOS software actually makes worse:

  • Everyone wears multiple hats, but your tools don’t communicate with each other
  • You get caught up in day-to-day tasks instead of working ON the business
  • Communication breaks down as teams grow across different platforms
  • You’re paying for 5-10 different subscriptions when you should be using one integrated system

EOS Provides the Framework You Need

EOS works because it creates focus and accountability in ways that scattered tools simply can’t:

Quarterly Rocks force you to pick what matters most instead of trying to do everything. Clear ownership eliminates those “I thought you were handling that” moments. Regular meeting rhythms ensure nothing falls through the cracks. Scalable structure grows from your leadership team to your entire organization.

Georg from Valiant Technology experienced this transformation firsthand: “We had a very different culture prior to EOS — not a performance culture at all. Putting in place metrics, KPIs, and standards really made us into a better company.” His team went from barely profitable to thriving once they committed to the system.

Why Current EOS Software Falls Short

Here’s what we keep hearing from businesses that switch to Strety. Mark from Parachute Technology used Ninety.io for years before making the change. His insight: “When we were in Ninety.io, we were just using EOS at the executive level. Now in Strety, we have pushed it out across the organization. The ease of use of Strety has allowed us to push it across not only the executive level, but also into the department and individual levels.”

The pattern is always the same: businesses love EOS methodology but struggle with tools that create more administrative work instead of less.

The Hidden Cost of Software Sprawl

Let’s talk numbers. If you’re running EOS properly with separate tools, you’re likely paying:

  • EOS software: $10-20 per user monthly
  • Project management: $10-20 per user monthly
  • Communication tools: $6-15 per user monthly
  • HR/performance tracking: $5-25 per user monthly
  • Document management: $5-15 per user monthly

For a 25-person team, that’s easily $900-2,375 every month in subscriptions. But the real cost isn’t the money — it’s what this tool sprawl does to your productivity.

The Daily Productivity Drain

Information Gets Trapped Everywhere

Georg from Valiant described the frustration perfectly: “The challenge with Ninety.io was that it was so standalone away from our other tools. Every tool we have that doesn’t integrate to our other tools becomes another place we have to go do double entry. So we’re constantly spending time cutting and pasting from one to the other.”

Administrative Overhead Never Ends

Your team spends hours each week copying meeting notes between platforms, manually updating project status across systems, recreating the same information in multiple tools, and training new hires on six different interfaces.

The “Game of Inches” Problem

Georg nailed this concept: “Every time we can avoid having to manually enter something, we’re getting back seconds and minutes. MSPs, like most businesses, especially service businesses, are games of inches. You’re not hitting home runs every day. But the best businesses really focus on the little things, too, like 10 minutes back here and 7 minutes back there.”

When those small time savings compound over a year, they become massive improvements to your business.

Meeting Management That Makes Meetings Worse

Jill from Pendello Solutions lived this reality before switching to Strety: “The biggest problem was being able to get information to and from other meetings. We were dependent on a team member remembering when something needed to go to the other meeting. Movement of issues among meetings was a huge problem.”

Sound familiar? Your EOS meetings should streamline communication, not create more coordination headaches.

Our Vision: One Platform That Actually Works Together

What if instead of paying for 5-7 different tools, you could run your entire EOS implementation AND daily operations in one integrated EOS platform — for less than you’re spending now?

We think small businesses deserve great, consolidated tools for a reasonable price — so that’s why we’re building software that we’ve started calling “EOS+”.

EOS+: EOS Software with Projects, Performance, Playbooks, People, and Surveys

EOS tools: Our EOS® software tools are the core of our product: L10 Meetings, Rocks, Scorecards, Issues, To Dos, V/TO, Accountability Chart, People Analyzer, and more. You can run EOS Pure with these tools, but you can do even more with —

Projects: Full EOS software plus project management with native EOS Rock integration, so your quarterly priorities actually drive daily work — building the best EOS software for project management is a big focus for us.

People: Complete team management, structured 1:1 agendas, clear org charts, and defined role accountability — all connected to your EOS structure.

Performance: Real-time scorecards, KPI tracking, and accountability metrics that update automatically instead of requiring manual entry.

Playbooks: Centralized process documentation, SOPs, and knowledge management that your team actually uses because it’s built into their workflow.

Surveys: Enhance your company culture by measuring what matters with Strety surveys. Organizational Checkup, eNPS Survey, Pulse Check Survey, and custom surveys help you collect the actionable insights you need.

Integration That Actually Works

Mark from Parachute Technology saw the difference immediately: “One of the biggest things about Strety for us is the Microsoft Teams integration, since we are a Microsoft shop. We do use the web app a lot as well, but it’s just nice that it’s in Teams.”

Beyond Microsoft Teams, Strety seamlessly integrates with Google Drive, SharePoint, Dropbox, Outlook, Slack, CRMs, and popular project management tools. Automated data sync eliminates the double entry that’s eating up your team’s time.

The Math That Makes Sense

Instead of $1,000-3,000 monthly across multiple subscriptions, you get everything integrated in one platform for a fraction of the cost. The real savings come from productivity gains and eliminating administrative overhead that’s currently slowing down your growth.

What Makes Strety the Best EOS Software for Small Businesses

Built by Operators, For Operators

We use our own product daily to run Strety. Every feature solves a real problem we’ve experienced while building and scaling companies. One customer summed it up perfectly after switching from a competitor:

“We thought, ‘BrightGauge was great, let’s give Strety a shot.’ Immediately we said, ‘For this price it’s solving so many obstacles.'”

We’re not consultants selling software. We’re builders who create tools that solve real operational problems.

EOS Expertise You Can Trust

We’re an official EOS licensee — one of only a handful of companies globally with this designation. This means we have a deep understanding of the methodology, not just surface-level terminology. Our features are designed around EOS best practices and support both self-implementation and implementer-led processes.

The Modern Experience Your Team Deserves

Jill from Pendello Solutions experienced the transformation: “Strety made it easy to get issues, headlines, and to-dos to different meetings, customize an agenda for the 1:1, and run the L10s, all the while making and documenting our decisions.”

Our platform features a clean, intuitive interface that requires minimal training, fast and responsive performance that doesn’t slow your team down, regular feature updates based on customer feedback, and support from people who actually understand EOS implementation.

Scale From Leadership to Everyone

Mark from Parachute saw this evolution in real-time: “The ease of use of Strety has allowed us to push it across not only the executive level, but also into the department and individual levels. So we have now taken our EOS implementation from a team of six executives to an organization of over seventy people.”

Most EOS software works fine for leadership teams but breaks down when you try to scale it organization-wide. Strety was built from the ground up to grow with you.

Focus on Growing, Not Managing Software

We built Strety because small businesses deserve better than cobbling together 5-7 different tools just to run EOS and your business properly. You shouldn’t have to choose between following the methodology that transformed your business and maintaining operational efficiency.

If you’re already using other EOS software: You know the methodology works. The question is whether your current tools help or hinder your implementation. If you’re still copying data between systems, paying for multiple subscriptions, or struggling to extend EOS beyond your leadership team, there’s a better way.

If you’re just starting with EOS: Skip the tool sprawl entirely. Start with a platform that grows with you and integrates your entire operation from day one.

Our commitment: We’ll keep building the best EOS software for small businesses while staying focused on what we do best — creating tools for operators, by operators. We’re not consultants or coaches trying to expand into software. We’re builders who solve problems with better technology.

Ready to Consolidate Your Stack?

Start a Free 30-Day Trial and experience everything Strety offers. Import your existing data from any EOS platform, test our integrations with your current tools, see how much time you save with consolidated workflows, and calculate your actual cost savings versus your current setup.

Book a Demo for a personalized walkthrough. See Strety configured for your specific business needs, understand the migration process and timeline, learn about our partner network for implementation support, and get pricing that likely costs less than what you’re spending now.

As Mark from Parachute Technology concluded:

“You’ve got to use a platform for your business operating system, and I think Strety is a best-in-class platform to be using. After trying a couple of them, I believe Strety is hands-down the best one.”

Stop managing software. Start growing your business.

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