Steady for Remote Teams
Replace daily standups with async updates
Your distributed team stays aligned across continents—no 6am calls required. Start with standup meetings, expand as needed.
Stop sacrificing sleep for standup meetings
Remote teams shouldn’t have to choose between timezone convenience and team alignment. Traditional standup meetings force someone to take the 6am call or miss critical context. Async standups eliminate the coordination overhead while keeping everyone in the loop.
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Timezone-Friendly Updates
Team members submit updates when it’s convenient for them—morning in Tokyo, afternoon in London, evening in San Francisco. Steady automatically collects responses and creates a threaded update everyone can read when they start their day.
No more scheduling gymnastics. No more someone sacrificing their morning or evening. Everyone contributes at their own pace.
- Submit updates anytime in your timezone
- Automatically compiled into team thread
- Full context available when you start work
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Complete Context, No Meeting Required
Each day, Steady creates a complete picture of what’s happening across your distributed team. See what everyone accomplished yesterday, what they’re tackling today, and what’s blocking progress—all in one place.
The context you’d get from a meeting, delivered automatically. Better yet, it’s written down so nothing gets lost in translation across timezones.
- Full team visibility across all timezones
- Written context that persists
- Blockers surfaced automatically
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Flexible Schedules Without Coordination Overhead
Hire the best people, wherever they are. Your team in Singapore doesn’t need to stay up late for standup with your team in New York. Everyone works during their productive hours while staying coordinated.
Steady handles the coordination overhead automatically. You get team alignment without forcing everyone into an arbitrary meeting time.
- Support truly global teams
- No "golden timezone" advantage
- Automatic coordination across 12+ hour differences
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Slack & Teams Integration
Steady works where your team already communicates. Updates happen in Slack or Microsoft Teams—no new tool to adopt, no separate app to check.
The standup bot prompts team members at their preferred time, collects responses, and posts the compiled update to your team channel. Zero friction, complete adoption.
- Works in Slack and Microsoft Teams
- No separate app to install
- Prompts at each member's preferred time
How remote teams use async standups
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Distributed Engineering Teams
Keep developers in sync across US, Europe, and Asia without early morning or late night calls.
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Global Product Teams
Product, design, and engineering coordination across continents with complete context for all.
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Customer Success Teams
24/7 support teams stay coordinated across shifts and timezones without overlapping meetings.
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Remote-First Startups
Build company culture and alignment with team members scattered across 6+ timezones.
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Hybrid Teams
Level the playing field between office and remote workers—everyone gets the same context.
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Consulting Teams
Coordinate across multiple client sites and home offices without scheduling nightmares.
“[Steady] has changed the way our company keeps everyone informed on our daily focuses and challenges. As a global team working in many different timezones, [Steady] has allowed us to stay accountable with each other and efficient with our time.”
Norma KweeHead of Product @ Working Not Working
Frequently asked questions
How do async standups work for remote teams?
Steady prompts each team member at their preferred time (based on their timezone). They submit their update—what they did yesterday, what they’re doing today, any blockers. Steady automatically compiles these into a threaded team update that everyone can read when they start their workday.
No meeting required. No timezone juggling. Everyone contributes when it’s convenient and reads the full context when they’re ready to start work.
What if someone forgets to submit their standup update?
Steady sends friendly reminders and makes it easy to submit late updates. The standup summary includes everyone who responded, so there’s natural social accountability without being heavy-handed.
Most teams see 90%+ participation because it’s easier to submit an async update than join a meeting.
Can team members in different timezones use different schedules?
Absolutely. Each team member sets their own prompt time. Your Tokyo developer can submit updates at 9am JST while your London designer submits at 9am GMT. Steady handles all the coordination automatically.
The standup summary waits for everyone’s updates (or the deadline you set), then posts the complete picture for the whole team.
How is this better than just posting updates in Slack?
Structure and consistency. Without a standup bot, async updates become chaotic—some people post, some don’t, messages get buried in other conversations, and there’s no single place to see the full team picture.
Steady provides the structure (prompts, format, deadline) while keeping the convenience of async. You get the benefits of a standup meeting without the meeting.
Does this work for teams with extreme timezone differences?
Yes—this is exactly what async standups are built for. We have teams with 12+ hour differences using Steady successfully. When your San Francisco team starts work, they see updates from your Singapore team that were submitted while SF was asleep.
No one has to wake up at 6am or stay up until 9pm for a meeting. Everyone works normal hours while staying coordinated.
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See for yourself how Steady helps teams work better, together.