Why StandIn exists.
I spent ten years working with people I rarely saw awake at the same time. StandIn is the tool I wanted in every one of those jobs.
The best work of my career happened with people I almost never saw awake at the same time. At World Resources Institute I ran marketing for 15 programs across 7 international offices. Our teams were eight and nine time zones apart, all working toward the same goal from completely different places. What struck me was never how different we were. It was how alike we were once we found a common language.
But the distance had a price, and it wasn't split evenly. Emails sat overnight. Messages waited for a bulk reply. The rare video call was late for us or late for them, and nobody was at their best. You wrote the message before bed and hoped it had everything the other side would need. Someone always got the short end of the stick, and it was usually the office furthest from headquarters.
I tried to fix it the way people usually do. I built WRI's first project management system. It made the work visible. It didn't make anyone answerable while they slept.
Everyone treated this as physics. It's just how global work is. I never believed that. Distance is real, but the waiting is something we built ourselves, and that kind of problem is exactly what technology is for.
Later, in fast-moving startups, I saw the same waiting without any oceans involved. Questions parked until someone came out of a meeting. Managers answerable to everyone while nobody answered for them. People spread so thin that the real work happened after hours.
So we're building what I needed in every one of those jobs: a representative for everyone. Your StandIn knows what you've done, and whenever you're away, it answers in your words while you live your life. Work hours that reflect your life. Answers that don't wait for morning.
Parker Miller, Co-founder and CEO
We're a lot more the same than we are different. The tools should finally act like it.
Three rules we build by.
Answers come from your work.
Your StandIn answers from what you've actually done and said, in your words. It doesn't fill gaps with guesses.
When it doesn't know, it says so.
A wrong answer at 2am costs more than a right one in the morning. So your StandIn tells people what's missing and who to ask.
You stay in charge.
It answers when you're away and steps aside when you're back. Everything it said is waiting for your review.
We lived the problem before we built the fix.
Answering for someone while they're away is half a people problem and half an engineering problem. People have to trust what's said in their name. And the system has to know exactly what it's allowed to see, and who it's allowed to tell. We built the team around both halves.
Parker Miller
Co-founder and CEO
Parker has spent more than ten years building lifecycle and CRM programs, the systems that decide what someone hears, when, and in whose voice. That turns out to be the core question behind StandIn. He was a Senior Manager at Block Renovation, ran marketing across 15 programs and 7 international offices at World Resources Institute, and co-founded TripGoGo. He holds an MBA from the University of Amsterdam and leads sales, brand, and fundraising.
Kris Jackowski
Co-founder and CTO
Kris has led engineering teams for ten years. At Clari he scaled a team of 10 and shipped Account Planning to key enterprise clients. Before that he was Head of Engineering at Cardino in Berlin, and he co-founded and exited SaveMyTime, a mobile app with over 500,000 downloads. At StandIn he owns the architecture, data model, access security, and integrations: the parts that decide what your StandIn can see and who it can answer.
Łukasz Oliwa
Founding Senior Engineer
Łukasz has been building software since 2015. He's worked as a software engineer at Clari and Grammarly, and before that built insurance systems at Aviva and travel software at Sabre used by agencies around the world. He holds an engineering degree in computer science from AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, and works across the full stack at StandIn.
Ludo Bergkamp
Advisor, SaaS Sales and GTM
Ludo has more than 35 years of experience helping SaaS leaders grow through stronger sales and customer success teams. He is Sales Director at CBA Benelux, where he leads and coaches the team that helps companies choose and buy IT software, and a Sandler-certified sales trainer and coach. He advises StandIn on SaaS sales and go-to-market.
What we share: product judgment, real fluency with AI tools, and years of doing distributed work across time zones ourselves.
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