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How Plato saved $200K a year with Coda.

Quang Hoang, CEO at Plato, shares his experience working with Coda.
THE CHALLENGE
Scale a promising startup without breaking the bank.
“We had 3 months of runway left and had to lay off half the team. We were burning through cash with too many SAAS services, and none of them were helping us to be more productive.
I always had the feeling we could achieve more, but we didn’t have the right written culture to scale.”
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“We needed to develop our execution path and find product-market fit at the same time, which meant we had to find a way to centralize our workflows and documentation.”
Quang Hoang, CEO at Plato
Mandatories
💲 Replace Expensify for employee expense management
🥅 Replace Lattice for quarterly planning
📋 Replace Asana for project/task tracking
📝 Replace Hugo.meet for meeting notes

Also Considered
Notion
Guru
Lattice
Asana
Hugo.meet

THE SOLUTION
Coda helped Plato optimize their resources and money spent on tools.
“We built an execution path on Coda. Our entire team adopted the new workflows, and the cost savings were huge. Our engineering team standup went from daily 30-40 minute meetings to only 10 minutes by using async updates in a Coda doc.
The time to onboard new team members is less than half, now that we only having to introduce one tool as opposed to 7.”

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Coda docs at work for Plato:
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Meeting notes
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OKR tracking
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Event planning
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Contact management
THE RESULTS
“The cost savings were immediate, and allowed us to make better use of our funds and, ultimately, continue operating.”
Money saved:
💰$200K/yr in tools, engineering, and onboarding
Time saved:
🕐 30 minutes/day
“Since we replaced much of our tool stack with Coda, we’ve been able to successfully grow our team to 65 people and raise a Series A round.”
Quang Hoang, CEO at Plato

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