Clyde

What it is

Clyde is an AI-native collaboration platform where users bring a real business problem into a guided workspace, collaborate with a library of AI advisors that act like human experts, pull in actual human stakeholders, and walk out with an aligned outcome and a usable deliverable. Built by Tim Lidman, a collaboration-industry veteran of Webex, SuccessFactors, and ThinkTank (acquired by Accenture in 2021), Clyde runs a guided intent-extraction process before any work begins — because, as Tim puts it, 99% of users don't know what they don't know about prompting.

Who it's for

Consultants, operators, and teams who need management-consulting-quality output — gathering input, developing a hypothesis, aligning stakeholders, synthesizing a deliverable — without the analyst up until 2 a.m. cobbling together the deck.

Why it's better

• •AI-native means AI is a first-class collaborator in the architecture, not a chat box bolted onto a legacy whiteboard like Miro or Notion.
• •Guided intent extraction pulls out what you actually need before work starts, closing the gap for the 99% who don't know what to ask for.
• •Automates the full consultant workflow stack — gather, hypothesize, align, synthesize — into one guided session.
• •1,300 users in the first month on pure product-led growth, with customers ranging from consultants to third-grade teachers building McKinsey-level curriculum plans.