A Slack standup bot that reads the work, not just the words
A Slack standup bot should do two things: collect your team's updates without a meeting, and tell you what is actually going on. Most do the first and stop there. They post the answers people typed and leave the second half, working out whether the update is true, to you.
Eodly is a Slack standup bot that does both. The check-in stays in Slack, where your team already works, and the report is checked against the work before it reaches you.
What a Slack standup bot does
A standup bot replaces the live standup meeting with a written one. At a set time it messages each person with a few questions, collects their answers, reminds anyone who has not replied, and gathers everything into a summary. Nobody has to be online at the same hour, which is why distributed teams adopt them first.
How a daily standup runs in Slack with Eodly
- Connect Slack and import your roster. One click authorizes the workspace. Eodly then imports your team from Slack, including each person's time zone, so nobody has to be added by hand.
- Each person gets one DM a day. At 9:00 in the morning in their own time zone, the Eodly bot asks for a quick update: what they shipped or moved forward, anything blocking them, and what they are picking up next. They reply in the DM, in their own words, any time that day.
- Anyone who has not replied gets one reminder, 45 minutes before your report time. Chasing people is not your job.
- You get one report, at the time and time zone you choose, 7 PM local by default. It lands on your dashboard and, if you have connected a chat tool, as a message too.
Your team never creates an account, never opens a dashboard, and never joins a call. The DM is the whole interaction for them.
What makes the report sourced
A plain standup bot repeats what people type. Eodly weighs each claim against your systems of record, GitHub and Linear, and surfaces:
- Who shipped, each claim next to its merged pull request or moved ticket.
- Who is silent, no check-in and no activity.
- Who is slipping, where a claim has had nothing behind it for days, flagged side by side with the evidence for you to judge.
It is exception-based, so you read the few things that need you, not nine "all good" updates. A teammate who forgot to check in but merged three pull requests still shows up as having shipped.
Slack Workflow Builder or a standup bot?
Slack's own Workflow Builder, available on Slack's paid plans, can post a scheduled prompt and collect replies. For a small team that trusts each other and only wants the written updates in one place, that is enough, and you do not need another tool.
A dedicated bot earns its place when the thread stops working: people forget and nobody wants to chase them, the replies turn into a wall of text nobody reads, or an update says "almost done" for the fourth day running and you cannot tell whether anything moved. Reminders solve the first problem. A summary solves the second. Only checking the updates against the actual work solves the third, and that is the part Eodly adds.
What Eodly can access in Slack
Eodly asks Slack for a narrow set of permissions: to read the channel you designate and its own direct messages, to send messages, and to read your member list for the roster import. It does not read your whole workspace. It is a chief of staff for you, not surveillance of your team: no keystroke logging, no screen capture.
Pricing
The Free plan covers up to 5 teammates, with Slack, Telegram, and Discord all available, so a team split across tools can check in from wherever each person works. The Team plan is $29 a month for up to 10 teammates and adds screenshot reading, paid creator stats, and campaigns. See pricing for the full comparison.
Not just Slack
The same bot runs in Telegram and Discord, with Microsoft Teams coming soon, so a mixed team can check in from wherever they already are and you still get one combined report. If your team is split across tools, that is the point: one page, not another channel to scroll.
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