Red Sky cuts meetings by 80% by automating 42% of HR processes

Company overview

Red Sky has been creating, supporting, and empowering startups since 2006. The company is a startup studio from Poland that works with founders to develop their business and product ideas. Red Sky’s mission is to turn groundbreaking ideas into successful businesses.

The challenge

Inefficient meetings, communication, and processes hindered growth

In their work with startups, Red Sky’s departments must collaborate cross-functionally. For example, the recruitment team co-creates Red Sky’s marketing, and the HR team works with the administration team to help establish new portfolio companies (the startups that Red Sky works with), implementing best practices in employee experience.

Organizing processes in this way is a challenge in Red Sky’s ever-changing business environment. In fact, an annual audit of the company's processes showed that it was struggling with several issues that were affecting productivity.

First, Red Sky was holding too many meetings that were not a good use of employees’ time. Second, the company needed to improve the quality of communication between teams. And finally, processes like recruitment for Red Sky’s portfolio companies were inefficient due to the involvement of multiple stakeholders and back-and-forth email communication that took weeks to work through.

“This approach resulted in several challenges, anxious hiring managers, disrupted recruiter scheduling, and missed opportunities to secure the best candidates,” says Ewa Lale, Recruitment Business Partner at Red Sky.

Red Sky’s challenges were preventing it from efficiently making progress toward its goals and providing the best possible service for its portfolio companies. These problems were complicated further by the fact that the company was using 10 different technology tools to try to get work done.

As a company that believes in technology and automation, Red Sky knew it needed a singular productivity platform that would address its issues and seamlessly fit into its organizational culture.

Solutions with ClickUp

A centralized hub for work with robust automation and security

Red Sky was familiar with ClickUp through word of mouth and had heard positive feedback about the platform. ClickUp checked all of the boxes as a centralized repository for documentation, and for its ability to automate numerous processes and manage data securely, so Red Sky decided to give it a try.

Final results

The first full year that Red Sky used ClickUp was 2022. The results from that year alone are impressive:

• 80% reduction in total meetings

• 50% reduction in length of meetings

• 42% of HR processes automated

• 40% decrease in time spent on legal analysis

• 3x faster recruitment process (from 21 days to 7 days)

What's next for Red Sky

Fueling the startups of the future

ClickUp has enabled Red Sky to significantly streamline processes and improve efficiency. The platform’s comprehensive features allow Red Sky to track progress toward company goals, manage tasks, and communicate seamlessly in a centralized location.

Teams across the company can now collaborate more effectively, brainstorm ideas, and solve problems together in a more productive way than ever before—helping to further Red Sky’s mission.