Customize the check-in questions

To update the check-in questions for your account, go to Account Management - Check-ins.

You can customize each of the 4 available questions and their corresponding answer labels for your account.

Why questions apply to the whole account

Check-in questions are set at the account level, not per team or per person. That's by design for a couple of reasons:

Same questions across the account is what makes cross-team visibility work. When every team answers the same four questions, you can compare across teams, spot blockers spanning the org, and track sentiment over time. The moment questions vary by team, you end up with islands of data that don't roll up — which is what most ad-hoc check-ins become, and what Steady is built to avoid.

The questions are opinionated. The defaults — what you did, what's next, what's in your way — are the fewest, best questions we've found for keeping a team in sync. You can reword them to fit your vocabulary, but the shape stays the same so everyone is answering the same kind of question.

"But my team needs to track something specific"

Check-ins are intentionally general. When a team needs something more focused, Steady has better surfaces for it:

• Goal stories — for tracking progress toward an outcome over time. People assigned to the goal share regular updates on how it's going, and those updates accumulate into the goal's story.
• Integrations — for pulling specific signal from tools the team already uses. Connect GitHub, Linear, and others, and the activity flows in automatically. (You can also use the API to send custom webhooks from any tool.)
• Echoes — for a single, specific recurring question that isn't already captured by check-ins, goal stories, or integrations. Write the question, set the rhythm, and the answers come back on schedule.

Each of these gives a team or project-specific signal without fragmenting the check-in data the rest of the company relies on.