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2026 (35 updates)
2025 (51 updates)

  • 2025 Year in Review

    ...in which we look back at a year that started with a wump wump and ended with doubled revenue and 10,000 buildings

  • 1 week to go to 2026

    GTM Update

  • 2 weeks to go to 2026

    ...in which clean-up mode kicks in, the mythical UoB gets some attention, and Release 110 ships with a bang

  • It's December!

    ...in which December arrives, Developments (the feature) lands on development (the server), and Release 110 looms large

  • Happy 4th Birthday, Cadence OneFive!

    ...in which the company turns 4, survives the great Cloudflare outage, and Robin gets high fives from NYSERDA

  • Wind-down and wind-up

    ...in which SOC 2 wraps up clean, Tighten joins the Scope Builder refactor party, and 2026 budgeting crosses the finish line

  • What Freemium means...

    ...in which the team quietly crosses into freemium territory, Jon joins, and NYC gets a new mayor

  • New Experiements for Momentum Team

    ...in which the subway ruins Bomee's dictation, Tighten joins the unfucking agenda, and Jon starts his first day

  • Argumentation without arguments

    ...in which Bomee shares tips for staying in the argumentation lane and Marc demos Momentum live to co-op boards

  • When we win, we all win...

    ...in which the team grapples with becoming a gatekeeper and what that means for interoperability

  • The Framing Effects of our Days

    ...in which Bomee explores cognitive bias and the SOC 2 audit goes surprisingly smoothly

  • Fall is upon us!

    ...in which the team crosses 10,000 buildings and Bomee reminds everyone to celebrate the wins

  • NY Climate Week

    ...in which Climate Week wraps up and everyone agrees that 5-year decarb plans should be standard

  • Walking the Walk

    ...in which Bomee reflects on values being tested and steam still pours out of NYCHA buildings

  • People Power

    ...in which Jon Braman joins the team and Marc takes his first stab at weekly title writing

  • Happy fall, y'all!

    ...in which September feels like the real new year and the horizontal FAQ gets its debut

  • Happy Fall!

    ...in which the company breather resets everyone and unique buildings jump by 1,500 in a month

  • Late Summer Brevity

    ...in which NY Green Bank renews and everyone marvels at the massive speed improvements

  • Mapping Horizontal Responsibility to Strengths

    ...in which Claude maps responsibility bundles to Clifton Strengths and response times drop to 250ms

  • Shaping Roles

    ...in which Bomee builds a widget for role design and Release 100 celebrates a big milestone

  • More on Responsibility Bundles

    ...in which Bomee unpacks management sticks and HPD officially chooses Cadence for NYC housing

  • Take a breather

    ...in which Erika checks in on work-life balance and Clean Architecture finally gets its moment

  • Getting to November

    ...in which everyone needs a breather before the NYC Accelerator deadline rush begins

  • 2025-07-11

    ...in which the API tunnel finally connects and Marc puts Momentum through its paces on fancy buildings

  • Race is ON!

    ...in which summer gets unexpectedly busy and the team ponders working more like bees, less like cheetahs

  • Weekly Update

    ...in which Release 97 ships on time and everyone wonders if ephemeral environments will finally stick

  • AI is upon us

    ...in which Bomee spends way too much time with Claude, and François wonders if an AI future will be joyless

  • Weekly Update

    ...in which François takes his show on the road to pitch at JLL

  • How're we doin'? Finance Edition

    ...in which Erika breaks out the calculator and discovers we're sitting pretty with 15 months of runway. Math has never been this exciting!

  • So what matters?

    ...in which Bomee serves up hard truths about winning NYC and what comes after

  • Fixing a broken market, pt2

    ...in which the gang faces down the zombie ASHRAE L2 audit

  • We're fixing a broken market

    ...in which history casts a long shadow

  • How are we doing?

    ...in which Marc, Bomee, and Jason bask in ideas gifted and ideas returned

  • NPV

    ...in which the gang risks it all in the swamp of letters

  • Work of Working

    ...in which the demo prep reaches fever pitch and the team channels all their energy into making it sing

  • (Re)birth of Project

    ...in which François gets excited about cooking 'delicious dishes' for contractor users

  • Let's Make More New Stuff (yay)

    ...in which the team celebrates NYSERDA finally kicking off for real

  • New (again) Handbook

    ...in which the handbook rises from the ashes of Almanac

  • Weekly Update

    ...in which the team debates whether to 'fix, rope off, or f*** off' while Jeremy provides fresh perspective development chaos!

  • What the new UI unlocks

    ...in which Generic Programs finally gets ready for prime time

  • Release 91

    ...in which Bomee's cowboy coding doesn't sink the ship, phew

  • UI Refresh

    ...in which François gets philosophical about technical debt while Jason laments things 'Regularly Friggin Postponed'!

  • March!

    ...in which the NYSERDA contract keeps on and the team discovers they've been 'in starting position' so long they're getting cramps!

  • 6k and counting

    ...in which a major milestone is reached, but Jeremy asks the hard questions about runway

  • Valentine Edition

    ...in which love is in the air but so is financial anxiety

  • One month into 2025

    ...in which Stefan the bookkeeper makes his debut

  • Weekly Update

    ...in which François drops truth bombs about legacy code

  • Intersession

    ...in which the team learns that 'mini-UI' somehow turned into 'MAXI-UI' and Bomee admits she might be Yeehaw!-ing

  • MLK Week

    ...in which the team tackles the great UI refresh

  • Gearing up for Q1

    ...in which François coins the term 'Schrödinger's RFPs'

  • Happy 2025!

    ...in which the gang returns from vacation with big plans for 2025, three major RFPs to juggle, and Izzy brings her AI superpowers for a month-long internship

2024 (50 updates)

  • 2024 Highlights

    ...in which we celebrate 2024's wins: SOC2 progress, 17 new measures, 300k buildings in BKB, and an amazing team

  • Coming up on the roadmap

    ...in which a massive list of new features heads our way including My Team Buildings, APIs, and in-app messaging

  • Short and Sweet Memo

    ...in which Rel 86 goes out on time and François worries about end-to-end testing as responsibilities shift to back-end

  • Welcome to December!

    ...in which we have just 3 weeks left in 2024 and need to plan for Q1 while catching up on 360s

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    ...in which we become a certified B Corp and two massive RFPs drop that align with our worldview

  • The Importance of Fit & Feedback

    ...in which Bomee talks about avoiding boom-bust hiring and the uncomfortable skill of honest feedback

  • The Post-Election Edition

    ...in which we process the election outcome and realize we're back to focusing just on the customers

  • Weekly Update

    ...in which we get +$340K ARR in one month and Carleton finally pays

  • Back to Boostrap Mentality

    ...in which the raise is dead, we're back to bootstrapping, and need to extend our legs to the length of the blanket

  • Generic Project Wrap-up

    ...in which Bomee delivers the 'come to Jesus' moment about running out of money and needing velocity

  • The 4th Quarter

    ...in which we enter Q4 with three major scenarios and VCs want to see diversified revenue beyond the 68% from ConEd

  • We're a month into Seed Raise.

    ...in which we have 'the best product-market-fit' and three investors are digging into our data room

  • NYC Climate Week (phew)

    ...in which Bomee explains the VC fundraising process step-by-step while surviving Climate Week

  • Happy NYC Climate Week

    ...in which NYC Climate Week happens and the new dashboard finally ships

  • Recap: How we plan to make money.

    ...in which Marc explains why property managers won't stick their necks out and resets revenue goals

  • Seed Raise

    ...in which the Seed Raise officially starts and we need to get to $10M by end of 2026

  • From Projects to Programs.

    ...in which Generic Projects ships and we pivot from projects to programs

  • Resiliency.

    ...in which François and Jason guest-write while Bomee and Marc vacation, and the team shows real resilience

  • Thinking About Risks.

    ...in which Bomee preps for Valley of Death with VCs while Marc battles Backpack for CPC mindshare

  • Welcome to Our New Look for Fall!

    ...in which the new marketing website launches (no more being coy!) and François asks people to comment 'banana' to prove they're reading

  • Earth Overshoot Week...

    ...in which we celebrate our first LL97 construction contract and generate a political speech policy from a meeting transcript

  • Roadmap to 2025

    ...in which we need 10 new locations by Jan 2025 for CPC/GGRF and everyone's feeling crispy

  • A great day to do decarbonization!

    ...in which Bomee's 360 happens and everyone trusts her enough to be honest despite power dynamics

  • Our numbers say we are going for massive.

    ...in which the 5-year projection shows we're shooting for massive and we need diverse tech talent NOW

  • Make friends with our financials

    ...in which Bomee demands everyone understand the constraints and Queens Climate Project calls us 'badass'

  • Half-way Week

    ...in which we're halfway through the year and François reports production instability alongside calc service success

  • We are still working on MVP.

    ...in which Bomee writes the product team a memo about MVP, early-stage startups, and surviving long enough to test our hypothesis

  • Iterating Product Strategy

    ...in which eNPS results come in at 90 and Schmidt meetings go really well

  • A good start to the end of Q2!

    ...in which Urban American gets 4 of 7 bids back in 8 hours with ~20% variance

  • IN2 and Elemental applications are in!

    ...in which IN2 and Elemental Excelerator applications go in and Luke becomes full-time

  • Earning Happy Customers!

    ...in which the team rallies around customer happiness and LL97 bids are so close to launching

  • Our Thesis on Transactions

    ...in which we get our first $197.34 from CPC but the bid didn't close on platform

  • Market Emerging

    ...in which Jen Leone thinks we can't meet LL97 without Momentum (magical thinking → reality)

  • Power to All Our Friends

    ...in which we get our first CPC transaction fee and everyone keeps saying 'this is so needed'

  • Happy Earth Day!

    ...in which investors start pinging us (!) and we walk-and-chew-gum on CPC while prepping for GGRF

  • Growing is Awk.

    ...in which we survive a phishing attempt (2x!) and start SOC2 certification

  • Greenhouse Gas Fund Opportunity

    ...in which GGRF grantees are announced and 'our people' are well-represented with $20B

  • Alchemy: Money → Talent → Product

    ...in which we contemplate the alchemy of turning $27k monthly burn into actual growth

  • Our First Quarter↗️

    ...in which headcount grows by 2/3 and we snag half of Related's NYC portfolio

  • Related Companies; 321 Go!

    ...in which 321 Go! launches and we stick the production landing after a smooth outage recovery

  • Saving Daylight / Deadlines

    ...in which Related actually signs (for real this time) and we're 'above grade level' on finops

  • Final lap of Q1!

    ...in which Related finally signs after a year-long slog and we hit $500k ARR

  • March hares almost here

    ...in which Luke accepts an offer and François soft-launches Fly production deployment

  • Running Yellow Lights

    ...in which Marc quietly nurtures Aurora/AKAM toward a 300-building deal while Jason kills the $30k energy audit

  • Regrouping Remotely!

    ...in which the team reunites for drumming, bubble soccer tumbles, and an angel investor dinner

  • Time for ON-SITE!

    ...in which we close the Kresge loan and head to NYC for drumming, bubble soccer, and actual work

  • It's Build-Mode Time!

    ...in which Bomee asks 'are you feeling the urgency?' as NYC's biggest climate players line up

  • Getting Into Gear!

    ...in which we raise $1.375M at 14.3% of the company and enter build mode for real

  • Marking MLK Day

    ...in which we welcome Chuck's baby (the first in the company!) and ponder Dr. King's vision for our shared future

  • Happy New Year!

    ...in which it's 2024 (the future!) and we're gearing up for LL97's first compliance year

2023 (5 updates)

  • EOY Edition

    ...in which we close the year with 12 paying customers and almost cleared invoices despite a horrible VC environment

  • 2024 Outlook!

    ...in which we plan to live within our means like a non-profit and focus on consolidation over growth

  • Welcome, François (and Rel 40)

    ...in which François joins the team and Release 40 brings us back from the slowdown

  • Happy 2nd Anniversary!

    ...in which we celebrate two years of existence while watching DevOps v2 murder productivity for months

  • The First Weekly

    ...in which the weekly tradition begins, Marc lands NYU, and Bomee discovers the power of the Friday memo