EOS alternative
An EOS alternative: the weekly rhythm, your way
If you have read Traction or run EOS, you already know what a steady weekly cadence does for a growing company. Whitewater OS gives you that cadence in software built for founder-led teams of 10 to 50 people: quarterly priorities, a weekly pulse meeting, a live scorecard, and a vision plan in one closed loop. Start with the pieces your team will actually use, add the rest when you are ready, and let Miranda, the AI assistant built in, carry the coaching and the busywork.
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Who it is for
For founders who want the rhythm without the rulebook
Whitewater is built for founder-led companies of roughly 10 to 50 people, where the leadership team still fits around one table but the business no longer fits in one head. The founders who land on this page usually sound like one of these.
- You read Traction and liked the idea. A weekly meeting, a few quarterly priorities, a scorecard of real numbers: it all made sense on the page. You want that discipline in place without rolling out every tool and every term on day one.
- You ran EOS for a while, then drifted. The sessions ended and the weekly meeting slowly turned back into a status update. You want the habits back, held in software your team opens every day, without booking an outside facilitator to keep them alive.
- You run a mix of your own. Part borrowed, part home-grown, held together with spreadsheets. You want one place for all of it that never insists you run somebody else's playbook to the letter.
- You never picked a system at all. You only know that Mondays should feel less like firefighting. You want a cadence a 20-person team can actually keep, with a coach in the loop you do not have to hire.
None of them want less structure. They want structure that fits the company they actually run, and a rhythm the team keeps because it saves them time, not because a framework says so.
The weekly loop
What a week looks like in Whitewater
Whitewater has its own method and its own words for it, and the shape will feel familiar to anyone who has run a structured operating rhythm: a long-range plan, a few quarterly bets, a weekly meeting that runs on real numbers, and follow-through that never depends on memory. Here is one turn of the loop.
Each metric owner enters this week's number on the live scorecard. On target or off target shows at a glance, with the last 13 weeks beside every weekly metric.
The team meets on its set day and time and works a guided, time-boxed agenda: the numbers, then the priorities, then the issues, so the meeting goes to decisions instead of rebuilding context.
Each issue is resolved with a note on what was decided, and the follow-up leaves as a to-do someone owns. Assign it and it lands on their task list, so nothing depends on memory.
Every quarterly priority has an owner and an on-track or off-track status that the team reviews every week, so a slipping priority shows up early, not at the end of the quarter.
Above the week sits the vision plan: your core values, purpose and niche, North Star goal, marketing strategy, three-year vision, and one-year plan, finalized together by the leadership team and kept in the same system as the work. Each quarter, the priorities re-point against it. Each week, the pulse meeting runs on the live scorecard and those priorities, and every issue that surfaces leaves the room resolved, with a follow-up to-do someone owns. Nothing is re-typed between tools, and the numbers your team works from all week are the numbers the meeting runs on.
Your pace
Start with the pieces you need
Nothing is required at setup. Every step of the welcome flow can be skipped, and the vision plan, quarterly priorities, pulse meetings, the live scorecard, projects and tasks, and the roles chart are all in the app from day one, ready when your team is. You might start with a weekly meeting and a handful of metrics, add quarterly priorities once you are ready to commit to a few, and write the vision plan when the leadership team wants the long view on one page. The loop pays off most once the pieces connect, so you adopt the rest at your own pace.
Inside each piece, the details are yours. Name each meeting series, choose its team and attendees, and set its day, time, and cadence: weekly, every two weeks, or monthly. Track each metric weekly, monthly, or quarterly, with the owner and the target you choose. Shape the task workflow steps to how your team actually works, add the fields each project needs, and title every seat on the roles chart in your own words.
- No setup step is mandatory
- Meeting series on your own day, time, and cadence
- Metrics tracked weekly, monthly, or quarterly
- Your own task workflow steps and project fields
- Seat titles in your own words
Coach in the loop
Miranda keeps the rhythm honest between meetings
Most teams that adopt an operating rhythm lean on someone to keep it honest. In Whitewater that coaching is built in, delivered by Miranda: one AI assistant grounded in your company's own curated operating knowledge, the notes you keep about how your business actually runs.
Prep for Tuesday's pulse meeting in a few minutes. Pressure-test a quarter's priorities before you commit to them. Ask why a scorecard number keeps slipping and get an answer drawn from your own weeks of history, not from businesses in general.
Miranda opens from anywhere in the app and already knows the page you are on. Ask how to do something and it walks you through it; ask it to handle the task and it does, and it keeps working after you navigate away. It acts only when you ask, every change it proposes waits for your confirmation, and we never train AI models on your business data.
Meet Miranda, the assistant in every corner of the app.
Bring what you run
Start from the plan you already have
You do not start from an empty workspace. The priorities spreadsheet, the scorecard export, the planning doc from the last offsite: upload them as they are, as CSV, XLSX, PDF, DOCX, or PPTX files, or screenshots, up to five at a time, into any Miranda chat.
Miranda reads what you gave it and drafts the real thing in bulk: quarterly priorities, scorecard metrics, projects, tasks, goals, and meetings, built from your own rows. Every draft is staged for review. Approve the batch with one click on Confirm all, or go item by item, and nothing is written into your workspace until you confirm it.
Switching from another tool or a stack of spreadsheets takes an afternoon, not a services engagement, and hands-on onboarding help is there whenever you want a person in the loop. See how switching works, step by step.
Questions from EOS readers
What founders coming from Traction or EOS ask first.
Is Whitewater affiliated with EOS Worldwide?
No. Whitewater OS is built by Whitewater Intelligence, an independent company, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by EOS Worldwide. Whitewater has its own method and its own vocabulary: quarterly priorities, the weekly pulse meeting, the live scorecard, the vision plan, and Miranda, the built-in AI assistant. If you know EOS, the shape will feel familiar; the names and the software are our own.
We already run EOS. Will our rhythm fit in Whitewater?
Teams already running a structured operating method find a familiar shape here: a long-range vision plan, a handful of owned quarterly priorities, a weekly meeting that runs on real numbers, issues resolved into owned follow-ups, and a roles chart of who owns which seat. Whitewater is its own system with its own names for things, so it does not mirror any one framework term for term. You bring your existing plan and numbers over with Miranda's file import, and each meeting series runs weekly, every two weeks, or monthly, whichever suits the team.
Do we need an implementer or an outside coach?
No. Whitewater is built to be run by your own leadership team. Coaching is built in and delivered by Miranda, which preps your meetings, pressure-tests your priorities, and answers from your own history, and the free trial includes hands-on onboarding help whenever you want a person to help you set up. If you already work with a coach you trust, keep them: Whitewater carries the weekly rhythm between their sessions.
Can we bring over the plan and scorecard we already have?
Yes. Upload the spreadsheets, exports, decks, and documents your current rhythm lives in, as CSV, XLSX, PDF, DOCX, or PPTX files, or screenshots, into any Miranda chat. Miranda drafts the priorities, scorecard metrics, projects, tasks, goals, and meetings it finds, staged for your review, and nothing is written until you confirm it, with one click on Confirm all or item by item. The switching page walks through the whole move, step by step.
What does Whitewater cost?
Pro is $19.99 per active seat per month, billed monthly, and every new organization starts with a 30-day free trial of the full product with no credit card. If it is not for you, the workspace goes read-only and everything stays viewable and exportable for at least 90 days. Operators who want consolidated, custom terms across several companies can ask about Enterprise. See the full pricing for what every seat includes.
EOS®, Entrepreneurial Operating System®, and Traction® are trademarks of EOS Worldwide. Whitewater is not affiliated with or endorsed by EOS Worldwide.
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