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Are You Trying to Lead and Run Your Team on WhatsApp?

  • Writer: Maj-Britt Kentz
    Maj-Britt Kentz
  • Dec 1, 2025
  • 3 min read

Many teams do the same. Group after group is created, and for a moment everything seems to work: messages move, tasks progress. But few stop to consider how information stays together. Continuity is not designed – it’s simply assumed that someone will remember.


Messages Move, but Understanding Doesn’t

WhatsApp threads fill up with decisions, reminders, questions, and instructions. Groups appear when needed, often without structure. And before anyone notices, the entire operation rests on a channel that was never meant to guide work.

Problems arise even if the people in the thread don’t change – shifting topics alone is enough. WhatsApp’s logic makes everyday work heavy, the big picture difficult to grasp, and shared understanding begins to fall apart.


Work Fragments Even When No One Makes a Mistake

When responsibilities are divided, the same people may participate in many chat groups. Topics shift, angles vary. One person speaks from one process, another from a different perspective on the same issue – and a third no longer knows which one to follow.

Work fragments because the channel cannot distinguish or understand the context of the information.Messages move, but understanding doesn’t.


Speed Is Not the Same as Continuity

WhatsApp is effective for messaging: it’s fast and supports quick reactions. But speed is not continuity. And conversation is not the same as a coherent picture of what’s going on.

When work is distributed, changing and highly contextual, messages alone are not enough. There must be a way for information to stay intact and reappear when it matters.

Often the issues do not emerge because people don’t try. They emerge because information disappears – or stays scattered among a few individuals.


Emill Makes Visible What the Team Already Knows

Emill is designed to support everyday work – situations where things do not happen all at once but evolve over time or as people change.

This may involve projects, events, service processes or continuous, even daily, operations and coordination.

Emill fills the gap created when social media channels have been repurposed to carry responsibilities they were never designed or intended to handle.


With Emill, information is created and saved as part of the work itself – at the moment when an idea, insight or solution happens. Knowledge stays in its context and remains available to the people who need it.

A Local Collective Memory Builds Over Time

When the team grows or people change, you don’t need to start from scratch.Shared understanding does not disappear – new knowledge builds on what has already been done and learned.

Information remains not because someone spends time assembling it, but because it stays with the work. It shows in everyday situations: decisions don’t need to be repeated, no one asks the same question four times, and the next person can easily continue where someone else left off.

Because knowledge always emerges in a specific context, its value is also local.Emill does not collect a general repository – it makes visible exactly what matters to this team, in this work, in this situation.



Elli Reveals What Would Otherwise Be Forgotten

Elli is Emill’s internal intelligence layer. It doesn’t search for information elsewhere – it uses what the team or organisation has created themselves, either during work or by bringing in existing internal materials such as guidelines, practices and process descriptions even before onboarding.

Elli does not need training. When content is present, it is instantly usable.Elli recognises recurring questions and similar situations and surfaces previous solutions when they are relevant.

Users don’t have to remember where something was written – Elli brings it up at the right moment.Knowledge does not hide. It doesn’t disappear. It supports better decisions and smoother work – every day.




Leadership Must Not Disappear into Message Threads

If work depends on WhatsApp groups, it becomes clear where things begin to fall apart.

Emill is not a communication channel – it is a user interface for work. It keeps things together even when people or situations change.

If you or your team are trying to hold the whole picture together using scattered channels, Emill offers another – better – way.

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