The Gumdrop Blog

Practical guides on meeting prep, follow-up, action items, and the small workflow shifts that make full calendars manageable.

What you'll find here

Meetings, but better.

Three things we keep coming back to. The hard parts of every meeting, and how to get them off your plate.

Meeting prep that actually works

How to walk into every meeting knowing who you're talking to, what matters to them, and what you said last time — without spending an hour digging through old emails.

Follow-up without the friction

The follow-up email, the action items, the things you said you'd do — captured and ready when you need them. No more "what did I commit to in that call?"

Templates and shortcuts

Real templates for follow-up emails, meeting recaps, and action item tracking. Plus the small workflow improvements that compound across a week of meetings.

Who's behind this

Built by people who take a lot of meetings.

Gumdrop is built by Paul English (co-founder of Kayak) and the team at Boston Venture Studio.

We've spent years thinking about how technology should help people work better — not by adding more tools, but by handling the parts that don't need a human in the loop.

First posts