Our mission

Create a world where every deskless worker has a good job

Hi, we're Opus.

80% of the global workforce doesn't sit at a desk all day. And while 99% of tech is built for deskworkers, we are set out to build for the majority workforce.

Our origin story starts in 2016, when we provided English training to kitchen teams. Back then we were called "ESL Works".

4 years (and many kitchens later), we expanded our vision dramatically.

Opus is digital platform that delivers text message courses. Employers create. Managers engage and connect. Employees learn and grow.

We work with hundreds of companies, from restaurant groups to facilities companies and manufacturing plants.

When Coronavirus hit, we built StopCOVID.co to provide free, text message-based COVID-19 training to tens of thousands of essential workers.

We are a tech company, but we take a human-first approach to everything we build in order to create space for everyone in the new era of work.

Opus Leadership

Rachael Nemeth

Co-founder, CEO

Rachael led restaurant operations, facilities, and people for over a decade in the hospitality industry. She comes from a family of restaurant veterans and is also an alum of Union Square Hospitality Group and Hot Bread Kitchen. Rachael is a certified English as Second Language (ESL) instructor and is dedicated to inclusive training practices. She's gotten pretty good at keeping plants alive.

Jeff Silver

Co-founder, VP Engineering

A life-long technologist and systems-thinker, Jeff was Engineering Manager at Managed by Q. Before that, he co-founded "Into". Jeff studied cognitive science and cloud computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently owns a pizza oven.

Vince Li

Head of Design

Vince is a distinguished product designer and design leader. Prior to Opus, he was Director of Design at Managed by Q and Senior Product Designer at Moat. Vince also ran his own studio in Amsterdam, where he led design at an ed-tech startup. He has the cutest kid on the planet, who is not named Opus. We tried.

Create a world where every deskless worker has a good job

Opus Leadership

Rachael Nemeth

Jeff Silver

Vince Li

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