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Smart Check-ins

Status updates shouldn’t feel like busywork. Smart Check-ins help teams stay aligned with minimal effort, making it easy to share progress, flag blockers, and keep work moving forward — without adding another meeting to the calendar.

How Smart Check-ins Work

  1. Steady continuously collects activity from your team’s tools, as it happens.
  2. People add extra context by responding to daily prompts with quick updates on plans, progress, & blockers.
  3. Steady distills updates & activity into complete daily snapshots, and shares them with the team via Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, and/or Steady’s Digest.

Instead of writing updates from scratch, Smart Check-ins pull in relevant context automatically, so you can:

  • Share meaningful updates in seconds. No more blank-page anxiety. Steady suggests what to include based on recent activity.
  • Keep teams aligned effortlessly. Updates are collected and shared in one place, so everyone sees what’s happening at a glance.
  • Deliver updates where they belong. Smart Check-ins surface in Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, and Steady’s Digest so the right people see them at the right time.

Quick Fill

Quick Fill makes it faster and easier to share progress in check-ins. Click the Quick Fill button, and Steady automatically summarizes key activity, which you can further edit before you post. Quick fill summarizes activity from:

  • Github Pull Requests
  • Gitlab Merge Requests
  • Steady’s Live Goals
  • Jira issues
  • Linear issues
  • Asana issues

If you'd rather Steady simply copy your previous "next" answer, You can disable Quick Fill in your preferences.

Why Smart Check-ins?

Everything that's happening, all in one place

Activities from integrated apps like GitHub and Asana are automatically attached to each person’s check-ins for maximum context.

Get up to speed in seconds

Steady automatically distills highlights for a team’s check-ins for the day, so everyone can get the big picture in 30 seconds or less.

Clear blockers fast

Steady surfaces blockers and dependencies in check-ins and notifies team leads, so you can clear the way for your team to keep moving.

Work more proactively

A simple system for setting intentions and tracking progress against them helps teams stay focused on the work that matters most.

Best Practices for Smart Check-ins

  • Tell the story the data doesn't. Instead of "SUP-21", something like "I hit a roadblock fixing SUP-21, and need some help to figure it out."
  • Keep it short. A good check-in answers: What did I do? What’s next? Anything blocking me? No fluff, just signal.
  • Use plain language. Skip the jargon and make it easy for teammates to understand at a glance.
  • Update at the right cadence. Some teams check in daily, others a few times a week—find what works for you.
  • Mention what matters. Call out dependencies, blockers, or key decisions so your update helps move work forward.