Talas is an operating assistant for the executive team.

Think of Talas as a savvy assistant who:

• Understands Zoobean’s business, customers, and market

• Listens across meetings and decisions

• Helps reduce friction by taking first passes, tracking follow-ups, and synthesizing context when useful

We’re here to support how you already work, not to change it.

We are former founders and operators who built and exited an edtech company that sells to Higher Ed and K-12. We’ve led teams through critical moments such as post-investment, new product launches, or other critical transitions.

We now partner with a small set of pilot teams, adding leverage where it’s most useful while developing the Talas product alongside them.

Our experience spans product, go-to-market, and data, allowing us to operate without adding friction.

At first, very little changes. Over time, things get easier.

First 30 days

• Talas is in listening and learning mode

• Focus is on understanding how Zoobean operates today:

  • How decisions get made

  • How work moves across the exec team

• No new tools, processes, or expectations

• You’re encouraged to ask for help, but nothing is required

After the first 30 days

• Talas begins to function more like a savvy executive assistant with context

• Can take first passes on drafts, summaries, analyses, reminders, or follow-ups

• Support is always optional and editable - meant to save time, not add work

You can treat Talas like an assistant that “lives” in email.

Examples:

• “Remind me to follow up with ___ next Wednesday.”

• “Take a first pass at a whitespace analysis for Texas.”

• “I can’t make this meeting — can you cover it and brief me?”

• “Can you summarize where this decision landed and what’s still open?”

The Talas team will do our best to help and will ask clarifying questions when needed, utilizing our deep experience in the Education market, spanning product, go-to-market, and data.

• Talas is not evaluating performance.

• Talas is not changing how meetings run.

• Talas will not insert itself into workflows or channels unless asked.

If something isn’t useful, the expectation is simply to say so.

Email Talas at zoobean@talas.co

Talas will quietly join the exec meetings to capture context and help track to-dos.

Any additional access is requested only for specific tasks that you ask us to do.

Everything is under NDA.

You can expect a response from Talas within 24 hours. Often faster.

We’re actively optimizing for responsiveness as we build the MVP, and response time is one of the first things we’re improving over time.

Talas should:

• Reduce exec mental load

• Give you an extra set of capable hands when you want them

You don’t need to do anything differently unless you choose to.