People
The People studio is a full profile for everyone in your work life — how they communicate, what motivates them, how to approach them — in one place. Each profile also gathers the practical stuff: their email and Slack identity, the 1:1 docs you keep on them, and their email pulled in from your Mac. It's the memory of the relationships an engineering manager runs on.
Everything you know about a person, on one page. Instead of a name scattered across notes, Slack and your inbox, a profile pulls it together — the read on how to work with them, the running 1:1 notes, and the recent mail — so you can walk into a conversation prepared without hunting for context.
☺ The read on them
Communication style, motivators, watch-outs and concrete approach tips.
☺ 1:1 docs
Running notes and agendas you keep on each person, in one place.
☺ Their email, here
Recent mail with that person, pulled from your Mac into their profile.
☺ One roster
Everyone on file, so a name is always one click from their full context.
What it is#
People is the roster of everyone in your work life and a full-page view of each one. It exists because managing people is a memory problem: how this director likes to be pitched, what your new skip-level cares about, what you and a report agreed in the last 1:1. The studio keeps all of that attached to the person, so context travels with the name.
Opening a profile#
You reach a profile from the roster, or by clicking straight through from any card that names someone — "view profile →" deep-links here. Ask for a person and their page opens with everything Zimac holds on them.
What a profile holds#
The heart of a profile is the read that changes how you communicate: their communication style (terse? formal? emoji-heavy?), their motivators and sensitivities, their relationship to you and role — and, always, concrete approach tips like "lead with the data, she tunes out preamble". It's a working tool, not a dossier: everything on it is there to help you land the next conversation.
1:1 docs#
Each profile carries 1:1 docs — the running notes and agendas you keep on a person across your one-on-ones. Talking points for next time, what you agreed last time, the thread of an ongoing conversation: it lives on their page, so prepping for a 1:1 means opening one profile, not digging through a dozen notes.
Their email & identity#
A profile also holds the person's email and Slack identity (editable), and pulls in their email from your Mac's mailbox — so the recent thread with them sits right alongside the read on how they communicate. When you're about to write to someone, the context and the history are on the same page.
How profiles are built#
Profiles are written and maintained by Joy, the people-insight specialist — from the material you share (Slack threads, meeting notes, a one-line description). She keeps evidence and inference separate, fills in the approach tips, and updates a profile in place as she learns more. Because all profile writes go through Joy, every specialist reads from one consistent picture of each person. This studio is where you read, browse and manage the results.