Standup asks your team three questions inside the tools they already live in, collects the answers on each person's clock, and posts one clean digest everyone can read in a minute. No 9am call. No blocked focus block. No 'sorry, you go first.' Just the update, every day, without the meeting.
STANDUP · Payments Squad · 6 of 6 checked in · 08:41
● Priya — shipped 3-D Secure retry; rollout at 40%
next: dial to 100% once error rate holds < 0.2%
● Marcus — refactoring the webhook replay queue
next: backfill the 14k stuck events from Friday
● Dana — drafting the Q3 ledger migration plan
⚠ blocked: needs staging DB snapshot from infra
BLOCKERS (1) → routed to @infra-oncall · 2m ago
AT RISK (0) → "Apple Pay launch" on track for Fri
⏱ 6 updates · 0 meetings · 4h12m of focus time savedDistributed teams ran 1.4M check-ins on Standup last quarter
Standup runs the entire ritual on autopilot: it asks, it waits for each answer on each person's clock, it spots the blockers, and it publishes one digest the whole team actually opens. Nobody schedules anything. Nobody waits their turn.
Standup pings each person in Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, or the mobile app — wherever they work — and they reply in a few taps. No new tab to remember, no app to open at 9am sharp. The check-in meets people where they already are, so it actually gets done. Quiet hours and time zones are handled automatically: someone in Lisbon and someone in Lima get asked at the right local moment, never at 3am.
Early bird or post-lunch — everyone checks in when their focus allows, not when a calendar invite says to. The async window does the waiting for you.
Standup composes a single, scannable summary per team — grouped by person, with yesterday, today, and blockers laid out clean. Read it in a minute.
The second someone types a blocker, Standup tags it, surfaces it at the top of the digest, and pings the right owner or on-call — so it gets unstuck today, not next standup.
Swap the three classics for whatever your team needs — mood, confidence, what shipped, what you learned. Different rhythms for engineering, support, and sales.
What teams get back the week they switch to async
Standup runs each of these on the same async engine — it asks, waits on everyone's clock, and hands you one digest. Keep the live sync only when there's something human to talk about.
Three questions, answered in a few taps, summarized into one digest before the first coffee's gone.
Went-well / didn't / try-next collected and themed async, so the live retro starts with the input already on the table.
Everyone posts what they're picking up; the team walks into planning aligned instead of spending the first 20 minutes catching up.
Team digests roll up into one leadership view automatically — no one builds a slide, no one sits through ten team reports.
A private one-tap mood question trends quietly over weeks and flags a team heading down before it turns into a goodbye email.
Every update is searchable, so quarter-in-review is a query — not three people scrolling Slack for an afternoon.
Daily standup is one ritual. Standup runs all of them — retros, weekly check-ins, planning warm-ups, mood pulses — on the same async engine, so every recurring meeting that could have been a message becomes one.
Collect what went well, what didn't, and what to try next from everyone async, then walk into the live retro with the input already gathered and themed — or skip the meeting entirely.
Run a Friday wrap-up or a Monday plan on the same engine. Roll team updates up into one leadership digest without a status meeting on anyone's calendar.
Add a private one-tap mood question to any check-in. Standup trends it over time and quietly flags a team heading down before it becomes a resignation.
Every update is saved and searchable. 'What did we ship in Q1?' and 'when did this start slipping?' become a query, not an afternoon of scrolling back through Slack.
“We had a daily standup across four time zones, which meant someone was always either half-asleep or eating lunch on camera. We switched to Standup, everyone checks in when they actually start work, and I read the whole team in under a minute with my coffee. We got two hours a week back per engineer.”
“The blocker routing is the part I'd fight to keep. Someone types 'blocked: waiting on infra' and it's already in the right channel before they've closed Slack. Things that used to sit for a day now get picked up in minutes.”
“I was sure async would kill the team feel. It did the opposite. People write more honestly when they're not put on the spot in front of everyone, and I finally have a written record of what's actually going on instead of a meeting I've forgotten by noon.”
Standup is free for your first squad, forever. You only pay per active participant — never for read-only viewers, leaders, or the people who just read the digest.
For one team finding its async rhythm.
For growing teams running async for real.
For large orgs with security and rollout needs.
More reliably than they show up to the call, in our experience. Standup asks in the tool each person already has open, the reply takes a few taps, and a gentle nudge goes out only to people who haven't answered by the team's cutoff. Because there's no fixed time to be present for, completion rates climb across time zones instead of dropping for whoever drew the bad slot.
Most teams find the opposite. People write more candidly when they're not performing for a live audience, the quiet folks get equal airtime, and you get a written, searchable record instead of a meeting nobody remembers by lunch. If you still want face time, keep a weekly sync for the human stuff — Standup just takes the daily status off your calendar so that time is actually worth meeting for.
Check-ins run in Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, and the iOS and Android apps, and digests can post to any channel you choose. Blockers route to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, or Opsgenie, and there's an open API plus webhooks to push updates into Jira, Linear, Notion, or anywhere else your team lives.
You map blocker types to owners or on-call rotations once during setup. After that, when someone tags an answer as blocked, Standup pulls it to the top of the digest and notifies the matching person or channel immediately — and keeps the blocker visible in every digest until it's marked resolved, so nothing quietly rots.
Yes. Every team sets its own questions, schedule, time-zone handling, reminder cadence, and digest destination. Engineering can run the three classics daily, support can ask about queue health, and sales can run a Monday-and-Thursday pipeline check — all on the same account, all independent.
Standup is SOC 2 Type II certified, encrypts data in transit and at rest, and supports SSO, SCIM, role-based access, and audit logs. Private fields like mood are visible only to the people you designate, and Enterprise adds data residency and retention controls so updates live exactly where your policy requires.
Connect Slack or Teams, invite your squad, and run your first async check-in today. Your calendar — and everyone's morning — will notice.