Getting started
mizuiro was built out of a very specific frustration: not being able to remember things about the people on your team the way you’d like to.
Not because you don’t care. Because you do. Because there are a lot of people, a lot of conversations, a lot of commitments made in hallways and one-on-ones and end-of-day check-ins. And because the human brain - at least this one - has a stubborn habit of holding onto IP addresses, phone numbers, and Jeopardy trivia from 1992 while quietly dropping the name of someone’s spouse or the reason a performance conversation happened six months ago.
The goal was simple: to better understand the team. To make sure their needs are met. To run things fairly and consistently. And when something goes wrong - when behaviour becomes a pattern, when a trend needs to be addressed - to have the documentation to act on it properly rather than going on memory alone.
The solution for a long time was scrap paper. Then spreadsheets. Then calendar notes and email drafts and half-finished Word documents. None of it stuck. None of it was findable when it mattered. None of it connected the dots between a touchpoint in March and a concern logged in August and a task that never got followed up on.
So we built mizuiro. The name comes from a Japanese word for the colour of clear water reflecting a blue sky - calm, uncluttered, easy to see through. That feeling is the idea behind the product and the tagline behind it: a clear mind starts with clear data.
You don’t need perfect recall. mizuiro is here to fill that gap.
This section covers what you need to do to get from a blank account to a working company. Most of it is setup you only ever do once. You don’t have to do it all in one sitting.
- Sign up and set a password - about five minutes.
- Run the setup wizard - tell mizuiro about your company, pick your tier labels, set your work week.
- Invite your team - supervisors first if you have them, employees in any order.
- Get 2FA out of the way - required for every account, and quicker to handle now than to come back to.