Staying up to speed

Steady is all about giving you maximum context for minimum effort. That first part — maximum context — is what Steady’s Daily Digest is all about. It’s a personalized noise-free feed of context-rich summaries and updates, pushed to you automatically.

So instead of sitting through a bunch of meetings, triaging notifications across 5 tools, and hunting for information, you just… read your digest.

Steady is built on the principles of Continuous Coordindation, breaking alignment work down into a set of structured, automated async communication loops. Check-ins are used for daily loops to keep teams coordinated and Live Goals are used for weekly/bi-weekly/monthly loops to keep teams and entire companies aligned with summary-level insight into where things stand.

By default, your Daily Digest includes check-ins from your teammates and updates from any goals you're involved in, but you can follow any team or goal. If you're looking for a specific type of update, like goal updates, you can filter at the top.

Items are listed chronologically, with team highlights above the most recent check-in for each corresponding team, giving you the team-wide context to go along with the check-in.

Summarized team-level progress with Team Highlights

Team Highlights are AI-powered summaries that give you context on the big picture fast.

Everyone’s intentions get distilled down to single-sentence summaries, and activity stats give you a broad sense of what happened.

Team Highlight cards are pinned above individual check-ins in your Digest. Team Highlights also appear in the check-in summary notifications for email, Slack, and Teams, giving you a better sense of what’s going on before you jump into the app.

All your context in one place

The sidebar on the Daily Digest contains important context and action items for you each day.

Action Items

Action Items keep track of all the teams you need to check in with and goals that are due for an update. It's your one-stop shop for reminders on what to do to keep your team up-to-date. No more worrying about missing an email or Slack message. Action items keep track so you don't have to.

Goals

Live Goals you own (or are a contributor to) are listed underneath action items, giving you a clear picture and easy access to the larger goals and projects you're focused on.

Teams

Each team that you're a member of is listed under Goals. Click on a team to quickly see its filtered digest.

Maximizing context, minimizing noise

Are you a member of the Engineering team but interested in what’s happening in Marketing? You can follow other teams and Live Goals in Steady to get updates without being a member of that team or goal.

When you follow a team or Live Goal, you’ll see its updates in your Daily Digest and receive notifications by email/Slack/MS Teams, just like the teams you’re a member of. No more searching around for information or context. You’ll automatically have everything you need to stay up-to-date and aware of what’s happening at your company.

Following teams

To follow a team, go to the Teams & People page, select the "..." menu for the team, and then select "Follow."

Following Live Goals

To follow a Live Goal, go to the Goals page, select the goal, open the "..." menu, and select "Follow."

Automated summaries and insights with Echoes

Staying informed about your team's activities shouldn't be a hassle. Echoes simplify this by automatically bringing the most relevant updates directly to you.​

Instead of sifting through numerous check-ins and goal updates, Echoes highlight essential information—such as key decisions, project milestones, or insights pertinent to your work.​

Echoes is all about giving you the context you need, when you need it, on a regular schedule. Ask about anything going on at work, pick a delivery schedule, and Echoes pulls data from check-ins, goals, and your activity integrations to deliver fresh answers again and again.

Echoes takes time-consuming, energy-sapping context assembly off of your plate so you can focus on the work that matters.

Using Echoes

To start using Echoes, select the waveform icon in the sidebar.

1. Start an Echo by typing a question or prompt into the field, or by picking a question from the default set of templates. You can use simple questions like “Who’s out next week on the product team?” or use more advanced prompts like “summarize the major progress that the Design and Dev teams made last week, and include any related pull requests”.
2. Once you submit your question, Echoes will generate a preview so you can make sure the output is what you want/expect. If it’s not, you can make changes, and the preview will update.
3. Pick a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly cadence and the day and time you want answers delivered, and optionally edit the “short name” (which is displayed on answers).
4. After you save your Echo, an initial answer will be delivered to your Digest. Future answers will be delivered to your Digest according to your schedule, and you’ll also get notified when that happens.
5. All answers for an Echo are viewable in one place. Just click on the Echo in question from the list on the main Echoes view. This is also where you can edit, pause, or delete an Echo (via the ••• menu at the top of the page).