An app by Quorum Digital

The First 100

Your first 100 working days as a new leader, in the right order.

Coming soon to Google Play

Between 40% and 50% of newly appointed executives fail within 18 months. The research is consistent about two things: the failures are behavioural rather than technical, and the first signals appear in months two to four, long before anyone in the organisation notices.

The First 100 is built for that window. It is a structured programme across your first 100 working days. Each morning it gives you one to three mandates: the specific actions that matter most right now, in the order the research says they matter. Not a reading list. Not a blank notebook. A sequence.

What it does

The Brief

Your mandates for today, set by your phase rather than by your inbox, with progress you can see against 100 days.

The Map

Plot the people around you by influence and support. Find the informal power structure, not the org chart. Track the five conversations you owe your sponsor.

The Radar

Identify and score early wins before you commit to one. Audit your resources. Harmonise the processes you inherited.

The Journal

Capture unvarnished observations as you go, by typing or with your keyboard's own voice typing. Entries are filed to the right tracker.

The Vault

Everything builds into a single First 100 Days Impact Report, ready for your sponsor on Day 100.

How it is different

Modules unlock on schedule. You are not shown what you are not yet meant to be doing, because acting before you understand is the most common way these roles go wrong.

At weekends the app stands down, apart from the Journal. You can override it, and the override is recorded. Sustained intensity is a failure mode, and the app is designed against it.

Private by design

There is no account, no sign-up and no server. The app sends nothing anywhere, works offline from the moment you install it, and never records audio. You are writing candid assessments of your sponsor, your peers and your team, and that only works if nobody else can read them. Export a backup whenever you want: your data is yours, in a plain file you control. Privacy policy.

Built on established work

The programme draws on Michael Watkins' transition framework, boundary management for sustainable pace, and cognitive load theory for the way information is revealed to you. The First 100 is independent: it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the authors whose work it draws on.

The First 100 is a planning and reflection tool, not professional, career, legal or medical advice, and it makes no promise about your results. Every decision you make in your role is yours.