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Kathryn Gallagher

I’m experimenting with new ways of working alongside empowered people and agents, and sharing what I learn so your team can work better too.

Co-founder of Grove

Former design lead at IBM and Procore who kept asking “wait, what problem are we solving?” Now running product at Grove.

1 post since November 2026

Posts by Kathryn

  • Five steps on a loop, with arrows running clockwise: Understand, Imagine, Test, Learn, Decide, and back to Understand.

    Founder-led product · 6 min read

    It was never a design process

    There’s no design process or product process. It’s one way of working, and it belongs to every role.

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  • Five steps of the software factory as boxes of different heights: the what, coding agents, testing, PR review and product review. One stream of work runs through all of them, only as tall as the shortest box. PR review is the shortest and caps the stream; the what and testing are close behind. Coding agents has the most room. The stream is labelled throughput.

    Building with agents · 9 min read

    Grove’s software factory

    Coding agents sped up the writing of code, not the factory. Below we outline the main bottlenecks we have seen and what we have done to mitigate them.

    Rob Yates ·

  • A card headed What and why, with four people beside it, above a dark panel headed How, with one person and plan mode on. An arrow runs from what and why down to how.

    Building with agents · 4 min read

    Claude Code plan mode isn’t a full plan

    Plan mode in your coding agent plans how to build, not what you’re building or why. Don’t wing it in Claude Code or Cursor. Plan the what and the why first.

    Blake McGregor ·

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