We're building the operating system we wished existed.
A short company, with a single mandate: replace the operational overhead of small businesses with a platform that runs continuously and answers to your brand.
We started this company in 2024 after fifteen years of running agencies. We knew exactly how operations work: a CTO writes a script, an SDR team makes calls, a content team writes copy, an admin maintains the CRM, an engineering pair stitches it all together with Zapier. Every two years the agency is rebuilt because the tools changed.
We thought: what if you didn't have to do any of that?
The answer is StrideOps. One platform that handles the operational floor - calls, CRM, content, knowledge, research, internal tools - under your domain, your brand, your pricing.
We're not building a feature factory. We're building a substrate. Every product on the platform is built on the same data layer, the same auth, the same billing. So an inbound call writes to the CRM, which fires a follow-up email, which lands in the content studio as a transcript. There are no integrations. There is just the platform.
We think that's the right shape. We think it should have existed years ago. Now it does.
The person holding the pen.
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Josh has built and run four agencies. The first he sold; the second he scaled to fifty-two people; the third he wound down deliberately when he realised what he was building wasn't an agency - it was a platform.
He started StrideOps in early 2024 from the realisation that every agency he'd built was solving the same problem in the same way, badly. Today he's the principal author of the platform, and writes the changelog himself.
You can find him on X, LinkedIn, and shipping PRs into joshpocock/strideops.
A small team, that has shipped before.
Twelve humans, scattered across three continents. Most have built and sold a product before. None of us are first-timers.
A short history.
- Jan 2024Founded as an internal tool at Executive Stride. Three founders, one repo, one shared belief that agencies were being rebuilt too often.
- Apr 2024v0. Voice agents go live on Twilio. First inbound call handled at 612ms p50.
- Aug 2024CRM module. First Postgres schema, first row-level-security policy, first auto-enrichment pipeline.
- Nov 2024First white-label partner. A regional agency in Austin ships StrideOps as app.theiragency.com. We're invisible. It works.
- Feb 2025Series A. $18M led by Headline Ventures with participation from operators-turned-investors. The check funds engineering and partner success, not marketing.
- Aug 2025p50 crosses 500ms. Voice agents become indistinguishable from humans in blind A/B tests.
- Jan 2026500 agencies. The platform is now multi-tenant, multi-region, SOC 2 Type II audited.
- Todayp50 holds at 427ms. 2.1M calls handled YTD. 12 humans on the team. Hiring three.
Operators-turned-investors. Mostly.
We're capitalised by people who've built and sold the product they wish StrideOps had been.
Lead investor, Series A. Notable LPs in Notion, Linear, Vercel.
Operator fund. LPs include founders of three multi-billion-dollar agencies.
Founders, agency owners, CTOs from HubSpot, Twilio, Anthropic, Remotion, Cartesia.
How we work, in five lines.
One platform, one bill.
We never ship a feature that has to be re-bought. Everything is on the same data layer, the same auth, the same plan.
Numbers over adjectives.
We publish latency. We publish uptime. We publish prices. We don't say "lightning fast"; we say 427ms.
Invisible to the end user.
White-label is the default mode. We exist to make our partners look great, not to be seen ourselves.
Engineering compounds.
A platform is what you have at year five. We're year two. We're making the choices we'll be glad we made.
No customer is so important that we ship a hack for them.
Special cases pollute the codebase. We say no, often. Sometimes we lose the deal. The customers who stay are the ones we can serve well in five years, not just this week.
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