VoiceHubs

Who we are

Built by two product people who got tired of being in every meeting.

VoiceHubs is built by Bram Tierie and Joris Knulst. Two decades between us running cross-functional teams, one from the operations side, one from the product side, both in rooms where the meeting was the bottleneck.

Week of May 1343 meetings

Mon

13

Tue

14

Wed

15

Thu

16

Fri

17

9:0012:0015:0018:00
Standup
1:1 Sara
Refinement
Lunch
Demo prep
Stakeholder sync
Backlog grooming
1:1 Theo
Eng sync
Standup
1:1 Amir
Roadmap Q3
Design review
Lunch
1:1 Maya
Customer call
Stakeholder QBR
Demo dry run
Standup
Sprint planning
Design crit
Lunch
Backlog
1:1 Priya
Architecture review
Customer interview
Eng review
Standup
Demo
Quick sync
1:1 Lin
Lunch
CS sync
Standup #2
Product review
Strategy review
Standup
Refinement
Retro
Team lunch
Sprint review
Demo
Drinks
Do we really need to spend all this time in meetings? Can't we shorten them by better preparation?

The spider in the web

The good and the bad of being the connective tissue.

We were the spider in the web. People came to us. Decisions ran through us. We had context nobody else had.

The good part of that role? Being connected. Knowing what the team thinks. Shaping the decisions that actually matter. Being trusted with the call. That part we liked. Nobody steps into operations leadership or product to disappear.

The bad part? The mechanism for getting the context was meetings. Meetings to gather input. Meetings to surface concerns. Meetings to re-explain the brief to whoever joined three weeks late. Meetings that started cold because nobody had time to come prepared.

By the time the actual decision was on the table, half the team had checked out, and the other half was just waiting to leave.

What we wanted

Keep being central. Without the calendar tax.

The realization: information doesn't have to come through meetings. It can come through a structured async window where every voice gets equal space.

The meeting is for the part that actually needs everyone in the room, real-time pushback, live trade-offs, alignment in the moment. Everything else can happen before. Gathering input. Hearing concerns. Surfacing where the team actually stands. None of that requires a thirty-minute slot on the calendar.

So we built it. VoiceHubs sits on top of the calendar, gathers everyone's input async, lands the overview in the meeting invite. Same role. Same centrality. Half the calendar.

Bram & Joris

Bram Tierie

Co-founder · Operations

Bram Tierie

Long-time operations leader. Spent more Tuesday afternoons than he can count chasing context one DM at a time and orchestrating decisions across teams that couldn't all be in the same room. Built VoiceHubs because the job he was doing didn't need a calendar that full.

Joris Knulst

Co-founder · Product

Joris Knulst

Long-time product manager. Lived in cross-functional planning meetings for a decade. Joined Bram to give every team member a real voice without forcing them into another standing call.

What's next

Try it on the next meeting on your calendar.

If your team walks in sharper, keep using it. If they don't, you've spent five minutes finding out.

Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.