Standuply

Standuply is a Slack-based bot that helps teams run asynchronous stand-up meetings, surveys and team check-ins, functioning as a question-and-answer system for distributed and co-located teams. Daily stand-ups, retrospectives and status updates are valuable for keeping teams aligned, but holding them synchronously is difficult when members work across time zones or have conflicting schedules, and meetings can consume more time than intended. Managers also struggle to collect regular feedback and track progress without adding to meeting overhead. Standuply addresses this by automating the process within Slack: the bot sends scheduled questions to team members, collects their responses and posts consolidated reports to channels or individuals. Its approach allows teams to share updates at their convenience while maintaining a regular rhythm of communication, and to integrate agile practices directly into the collaboration platform they already use each day.

Key features include customisable stand-up templates, flexible scheduling that respects individual time zones, support for text, voice and video responses, and reports delivered to Slack channels or by email. Beyond daily stand-ups, Standuply can run retrospectives, planning poker sessions, team health checks, engagement surveys and custom polls, making it useful for a range of team rituals. Integrations with project management and development tools such as Jira, GitHub and Trello allow the bot to display relevant task information alongside updates and to support backlog and sprint processes. Analytics show participation rates and trends over time, helping managers identify blockers and engagement issues. Standuply is delivered as a cloud-based Slack application, with support for Microsoft Teams in some configurations, and targets agile software development teams, remote and hybrid organisations, project managers and scrum masters in companies of all sizes. Pricing starts from around USD 7, a free trial is offered, and a free version is also available for small teams.