Lonestone established shared governance to support its growth

Lonestone designs and builds SaaS products, apps, video games and websites for its clients.

This product studio of 35 people has worked for clients across France for over 9 years, in product strategy, management, design, development, data and cybersecurity.

Lonestone practices shared governance, which means its teams take part in the decisions on how the company is run.

Rolebase saves our teams a tremendous amount of time. We can easily find everyone's different roles, every meeting has clear next steps, and it greatly simplifies how we organize secondary roles.

Ronan Letellier, Co-founder

Roles had become unreadable in Notion

A group of friends co-founded Lonestone. They chose horizontal management, which matches their values and their experience of the workplace.

To take on increasingly ambitious projects, the team hired experts with varied backgrounds and skills.

To organize these teams and keep the studios running, it drew on Holacracy, sociocracy and agile methods.

A method needs tools to last. Lonestone built its own in Notion, which showed three limits:

• Roles were stored in tables where a newcomer struggled to find their way around.
• A deleted database no longer appeared in the history, while all the meeting minutes were stored in Notion.
• Secondary roles, essential to running the company, were poorly represented.

Things were getting confusing in Notion. We couldn't find our way around anymore, we couldn't see who does what. Despite the teams' commitment, we had reached Notion's limits.

Godefroy de Compreignac, Co-founder

Lonestone created Rolebase to make its roles visible

Godefroy de Compreignac built Rolebase for Lonestone's teams and for other companies with horizontal management.

Today, Lonestone's org chart shows every role and every skill. During recruitment, candidates look at it to see where they would fit in the company. During onboarding, newcomers use it to learn the scope of each colleague and each team.

The team also runs its meetings in Rolebase. It prepares the minutes there and generates an AI summary in one click. Everyone then finds the minutes through search or in their news feed.

The experts can then focus on their own work.

I see a real difference in how candidates project themselves during recruitment, and then during onboarding. After just one week, it's as if they had been with the company for years.

Pierrick Bignet, Co-founder

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