Turn daily standups into async updates
A Zapier team used two internal agents to collect standup notes and roll them into a shared summary, cutting five daily meetings to two weekly ones.
- What they did
- Andrew Kordampalos's team at Zapier wanted to stop spending so much time in daily standups. They built two small agents on Zapier's own platform: one reached out to each person for an update, and the other turned the replies into a summary for the team. Slack handled the handoff, and they tried the agents in sandbox channels before moving them into production.
- How it went
- The routine changed quickly from five standups a week to two syncs a week. The writeup does not give a time-saved number or say how well the summaries read, and it notes that a new agent idea usually takes days to build.
- Tips
- Test in a sandbox channel first so you can see whether the updates are useful and not just noisy. Keep a human approval step before anything gets posted to the team.
Try it yourself with Zapier Agents
At [time] on [days], message everyone in [team or channel] for a short async standup update. Put the replies into one summary grouped by person, with blockers first and any decisions needed clearly marked. Draft the post for [destination channel] and stop for my approval before you send anything; after I approve, post it.
Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.
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