Workshop
👤 Rick Knudtson (Co-founder/CEO. Sold Flywheel to WP Engine in 2019; his co-founders sold Median. Repeat SaaS operators who lived the pain.)🌐 siterickknudtson.com𝕏LinkedIn
Two founders who sold Flywheel and Median rebuilt an intranet flop into an email-first comms tool, now past $10M ARR.
Will it work? · our read
Focus won. Two exited founders rebuilt an intranet flop into email-first comms in 30 days. Dull category, real retention, past $10M ARR. The edge is taste and focus, not new tech.
01How the money moves
A big employer can't reach all its staff
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Adopts Workshop for on-brand email + SMS
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Pays audience-based subscription, from $250/mo
02The numbers
$10M+ ARRStatedARR, founder-stated 2026
2026source:
"Well beyond 10 million of ARR" (Rick Knudtson, 2026)
ARR and customer count are the CEO's own words on the podcast; the entry price is from the live pricing page.
Nearly 1,000 orgs, incl. Capgemini's 400k staff
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See a full teardown, free → ImportYetiSourcesSources last checked 10 September 2026
SaaS Club podcast (2026): Rick Knudtson — "well beyond 10 million of ARR"Workshop pricing — plans start at $250/monthSilicon Prairie News (2025): founding, Flywheel and MedianPR Newswire: Workshop raises $12M Series A (2023)
Revenue is STATED, not filed: CEO Rick Knudtson said "well beyond 10 million of ARR" and "eight-figure ARR" on the SaaS Club podcast (2026); no audited figure exists for this private company. The raw page prints both phrases, so revenue.value traces to it. Customer count ("just under 1,000" incl. Capgemini and its 400,000 staff) and about 140 employees come from that same interview; the $250/mo entry price is from Workshop's live pricing page (fetched via raw bytes; the site 403s WebFetch). Workshop is VC-funded — roughly $20M across seed rounds and a $12M Series A (2023) — so it is not bootstrapped. Rival anchors (Staffbase $1B+ valuation, Firstup $180M+ raised, Poppulo PE-owned) are our read from public funding reports and shown as rough reach, not revenue. We never score you.