Like most companies, Glimpse’s most valuable asset is our team. Yet, at many companies, cultural values and expectations develop haphazardly instead of intentionally. While we can’t create a culture with a Notion page, we hope that writing down our intentions will help crystallize our aspirations and identify candidates excited by the kind of culture we want to build.

Keep in mind that this document is both aspirational and flexible. We won’t always live up to our ideals. Furthermore, as an early-stage company, our culture can and should change as new team members join and bring their ideas and experiences with them.

The entire team reviews this document on a regular cadence to evaluate what’s working well, what’s not, and what should change.

🧭 Tagline, mission, and vision

Tagline

Quality at scale

Mission

Glimpse's mission is to enable quality at scale for the physical products that shape modern life — starting with the batteries at the heart of the energy transition, and extending to every hardware industry where product safety, reliability, and manufacturing efficiency matters.

Vision

Glimpse's vision is to make X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning an affordable, ubiquitous tool for every hardware engineer, unlocking scalable, collaborative, and delightful analysis of its data. CT provides unparalleled insights into product quality, but a painful user experience has historically held back its utility and adoption. Glimpse’s solutions allow users of any skill level to quickly understand their product quality, from novices deep-diving a single scan to quality teams surfacing trends across tens of thousands of parts per day.

⚖️ Core values

  1. Excellence. We want Glimpse to be known for excellence in everything it builds: technology, product, teams, customer relationships, etc. We hope to push the boundaries of what’s possible while delivering a reliable, consistent experience for our customers. In short, we hope all team members can do the best work of their lives at Glimpse.
  2. Accountability, responsibility, and urgency. We take the battery quality challenge seriously. There’s a lot to do, so we’ll need everyone on the team to feel accountable, responsible, and a sense of urgency around our mission.
  3. Humility. We will always have more to learn, and saying “I don’t know” is the first step to learning something new.
  4. Safety. We’re passionate about making batteries safer, and we are more familiar than most with battery safety risks. We will always choose the safer course of action over a faster route, and we prioritize our team members’ safety over everything else.
  5. Fun. In our experience, working on an important problem with talented and likable colleagues is about as much fun as a job can offer. Of course, we’ll also have plenty of socials and opportunities to hang out. Lastly, we don’t take ourselves too seriously.

🤝 Our commitment as leaders

One of our most important jobs as leaders is to bring out the best from our team. A few ways we can do this are:

  1. Creating a healthy work environment. It’s our job to create a workplace where team members are excited to come to work each day.
  2. Align skill sets and interests to problems. We’ll have plenty of problems to solve, and sometimes we’ll need to solve problems we don’t enjoy solving, but we’ll match skill sets and interests to problems as best we can. We’ll also strive to communicate clear priorities and balance ambition with pragmatism.