Steady vs Geekbot
Steady: the top Geekbot Alternative
Geekbot does standups. Steady solves team coordination end-to-end with standups, goals, AI agents, and more.
Why teams choose Steady over Geekbot
Geekbot is a solid standup bot, but standups alone don’t solve team coordination, particularly on larger teams. Steady gives you standups plus the complete toolkit teams need to stay aligned and informed without drowning in meetings, misalignment, and manual context assembly.
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Standups that do more
Both tools handle daily standups, but Steady’s Smart Check-ins go further. Activity from GitHub, Jira, and other tools is automatically attached. AI generates team highlights in seconds. Zero manual record-keeping required.
- Auto-populated with activity from connected tools
- AI-generated team highlights save reading time
- Blocker tracking with automatic notifications
- Works across Slack, Teams, email, and web
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Goals & OKRs built in
Geekbot stops at standups. Steady includes Goal Stories for tracking team and company objectives. Set weekly or quarterly goals, get automatic reminders, and share rich updates with stakeholders. Keep your entire org aligned around what matters most.
- Individual and team goal tracking
- Nested goals align teams around shared plans
- Blog-style updates provide rich context
- Automatic distribution to stakeholders
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AI agents for complete context
Echoes are AI agents that answer any question about what’s happening at work. Set them up once, get fresh answers delivered automatically before every 1:1 or leadership sync. Geekbot has nothing like this.
- Zero prep time for 1:1s and syncs
- Summarize across check-ins, goals, and integrations
- Delivered on your schedule automatically
- No prompt engineering required
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Insights that spot what's working
Geekbot gives you raw standup data. Steady’s Insights turn that data into actionable intelligence. Track participation trends, spot blocker patterns, monitor goal progress, and measure team health across nine key dimensions. See what’s working and what needs attention, at a glance.
- Realtime analytics across participation, blockers, and goals
- Detailed reports break down trends by team and individual
- Flexible filters by team, people, dates, and tags
- Live activity feed aggregates all connected tools
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Living team directory
With Geekbot, standup answers disappear into Slack threads. Steady maintains a living org chart where anyone can see who’s working on what, their goals, recent activity, and complete work history. Perfect for onboarding, cross-team collaboration, and eliminating “what’s everyone doing?” questions.
- Complete picture of every team and person in one place
- Automatic "brag docs" with goals and work artifacts
- See current focus and progress instantly
- Respects team privacy settings for sensitive groups
What You Get With Steady That Geekbot Doesn't Offer
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Comprehensive goal tracking
Track individual, team, and company goals with rich updates and nested hierarchies.
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AI context agents
Echoes deliver the exact context you need, automatically, for any recurring question.
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Living team directory
See who's working on what, their goals, recent activity, and current status in one place.
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Deep tool integrations
Activity from GitHub, Jira, Linear, and more automatically enriches check-ins and updates.
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Team insights dashboard
Track trends like participation, blockers, goal progress, and team health over time.
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Native desktop app
Robust desktop app for Mac and PC with native notifications keeps you in the loop without living in your browser.
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Multi-team made easy
Elegantly handles participation across multiple teams with unified views and flexible check-in schedules.
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Best practices built in
Based on Continuous Coordination principles—proven patterns so you don't have to figure everything out yourself.
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Enterprise security
SOC2 Type 2 certified, SSO/SAML support, SCIM provisioning, and enterprise SLAs.
“Standup participation was piecemeal and it was hard to get a full picture - until the team adopted Steady. Now we have 100% participation and great visibility into the team and other teams are now even getting on board! It's that good!”
Ryan KatkovHead of Engineering @ Life360
Frequently asked questions
How are Steady and Geekbot different?
Geekbot is a standup bot focused on daily standups, polls, and surveys. Steady is a complete team coordination platform that includes standups (Smart Check-ins) plus goal tracking, AI agents (Echoes), activity integrations, and tools to eliminate status meetings entirely. If you need more than standups, Steady gives you a complete solution.
Can Steady replace Geekbot for our team?
Yes. Steady’s Smart Check-ins handle everything Geekbot does for standups, with deeper integrations, AI-generated highlights, and automatic activity collection. You also get goal tracking, AI agents, and complete team coordination tools that Geekbot doesn’t offer.
Does Steady work with Slack and Microsoft Teams?
Yes. Steady integrates with both Slack and Microsoft Teams, delivering check-in reminders, goal updates, and Echo answers directly in your team chat. You can also use Steady via email or the web app.
What if we only need standups right now?
Steady’s Smart Check-ins work great as a standalone feature, but you get access to the full platform. Most teams start with check-ins, then add goals or Echoes as they discover new coordination challenges. Having everything in one platform means you’re ready to scale when you need to.
How hard is it to migrate from Geekbot to Steady?
Migration is straightforward. Set up your check-in schedule in Steady (takes 5 minutes), run both tools in parallel for a week to get comfortable, then turn off Geekbot. Most teams are fully migrated within days. Our support team can help if you need it.
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