Founder Tech Stack: Casey Qadir
Co-founder and CEO of Hubly Surgical
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Communication & Collaboration
Slack — Team communication
“Slack, honestly, never really used anything else. I just use Slack throughout college, and I like it.”
Zoom — Video conferencing and AI meeting notes
“Zoom is our favorite out of like Google Meet and Teams… the UI is really good. We don't typically have problems with people like signing on to meetings and stuff like that. And then... I think just like the UI in the background is really good, with the like Zoom AI summaries, I think, are quite good, and the meeting assets that generate—so it's kind of a personal preference thing, but our team's really small, so whatever the three out of four of us think prefer is kind of what we go with.”
G Suite — Email and documents
“G Suite again. I think it's just kind of like what we're used to on our team, and I've just been using G Suite since I was like five, so that's easy enough.”
With a lean team, Casey keeps the collaboration stack simple and consensus-driven - “whatever the three out of four of us think prefer is kind of what we go with.”
AI Automation: Codex vs. Claude
Casey, like many founders, is actively testing both platforms to automate the operational side of running Hubly Surgical.
Codex — Current pick for daily ops automation
“Right now I'm using Codex, but as I mentioned, I might switch to Claude. I'm kind of test experimenting with both to see which one I like more, and right now we only have four people on my team currently, so each person just like has an individual plan for right now, but we're about to hire a bunch of people, so I need to make a decision on like which... having one for the whole company. But yeah, right now I'm using Codex, and it works, I mean, Codex and Claude both work really well. I think that's part of the problem, is that it's hard to make a decision.”
“I have all the plugins set up between every other tech stack I've plugged into Codex, so I have it just run through like multiple times a day everything that's been going on that day, and make sure that it just goes ahead and moves forward on the action items – so, have it upload things to the CRM, or like I have it just draft Slack messages and draft emails, and then I go through my drafts very often, and just go through and like edit and send.”
“The automated part is that I'll have one of those AI tools set up so that it goes through all of the like Zoom AI notes for the day, goes through emails, and kind of auto generates like draft replies to emails, and like uploads things to HubSpot, and sends follow-up Slack messages to people, so that things don't slip through the cracks, and that's been super helpful.”
Claude — Alternative being evaluated, currently the frontrunner
“I, like many founders, have been going back and forth between Codex and Claude in terms of which is better for automating the ops side of the business.”
“I'm still deciding between Codex and Claude myself.”
The decision has become more urgent as the team grows: right now each person runs an individual plan, but the team will settle on one tool company-wide before Hubly's next wave of hires.
Hiring & Recruiting
LinkedIn — First stop for candidate sourcing
“What we do for hiring is we start off by just putting up a LinkedIn post, and we basically give it two weeks to see if anyone comes through a warm introduction or through our network, or just happens to apply on LinkedIn who's like fantastic.”
“In my experience, I feel like if you're gonna get a fantastic candidate through just a random LinkedIn post, I usually get that fantastic candidate in the first two weeks... my favorite people applied right away. It was like they had someone send them a post and they were like, 'you're perfect for this job,' or they were already in our network and had warm introductions and recommendations.”
Recruiter — Backup when the network comes up short
“We give it about two weeks, and if the candidate pool is just not coming up with anything that we're thrilled about, then we go to a recruiter, so that has worked very well in the past.”
Casey Qadir is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hubly Surgical, neuro-spine surgical safety company with uniquely 100% effective automatic-stop for surgical drills. Since launching in 2024, Hubly Drills have saved an estimated 8,000+ patient lives. She founded Hubly during her undergrad at Northwestern University following a family connection to the unmet need. She previously worked as a software engineer and spent years in neuroscience research focused on Parkinson’s disease and neuro-implantable devices. Based in New York City, Casey has been an active member of NYC Founders Club since 2026.
