Steady vs Range
The Range Alternative with AI superpowers
Go from simple check-ins and goals to an AI-powered team coordination platform that eliminates information overload by delivering personalized context to every person.
Why teams choose Steady over Range
Range works well for small teams, but coordination gets harder as you scale. More teams means more check-ins to read, more context to track, more information overload. Steady solves this with personalized feeds that surface what you need to know, AI agents that deliver context on demand, and a proven approach based on decades of best practices from high-performing teams.
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AI agents that answer anything
Range stops at check-ins. Steady’s Echoes are AI agents that answer any question about what’s happening at work—automatically, on your schedule. Set them up once, get fresh answers before every 1:1 or leadership sync. No manual prep, no context assembly, no digging through check-ins.
- Zero prep time for 1:1s, skip-levels, and team syncs
- Pull from check-ins, goals, and all connected tools
- Delivered automatically on your schedule
- No prompt engineering or manual work required
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Check-ins that go deeper
Both tools handle daily check-ins, but Steady’s Smart Check-ins do more with the information. Activity from GitHub, Jira, and other tools is automatically attached. AI generates team highlights in seconds. Blocker tracking notifies the right people automatically.
- 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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Work-focused team directory
Range’s team directory focuses on profiles and handbooks—who people are and how they work. Steady’s living org chart focuses on what people are actually doing. See complete work history: every check-in, every goal update, every artifact from connected tools.
- Complete work history, not just current status
- All check-ins and goal updates in one timeline
- Automatic aggregation of work artifacts from connected tools
- Respects team privacy settings for sensitive groups
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Insights that spot patterns
Steady’s Insights turn check-inm goal, and activity data into actionable intelligence. Track participation trends over time, spot blocker patterns, monitor goal progress, and measure team health across nine key dimensions. See what’s working and what needs attention.
- 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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Goals with AI-powered updates
Both tools track goals, but Steady’s Goal Stories provide rich, blog-style updates with AI-powered templates. Mix your own static content with AI-generated summaries of progress across check-ins and sub-goals. Weekly or quarterly goals get automatic reminders. Nested goals align teams around shared plans. Updates distribute automatically to stakeholders.
- AI templates mix static content with dynamic progress summaries
- Blog-style updates provide complete context with links and images
- Nested goals align teams around shared vision
- Automatic distribution to stakeholders who need to know
What you get with Steady that Range doesn’t offer
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AI context agents
Echoes deliver the exact context you need, automatically, for any recurring question.
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Personalized context feeds
Surface what you need to know instead of full-blast updates from every team.
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AI-generated team highlights
Get up to speed on what teams are working on in seconds, not minutes of reading.
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Work-focused team directory
Complete work history with every check-in, goal update, and artifact—not just profiles.
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Pattern-spotting insights
Track trends over time with detailed reports and flexible filtering across teams.
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Blocker notifications
Automatic alerts to team leads when blockers are flagged in check-ins.
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Native desktop app
Robust desktop app for Mac and PC with native notifications keeps you in the loop.
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AI-powered goal templates
Mix static content with AI summaries in goal updates—get structure and automation together.
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Enterprise security
SOC2 Type 2 certified, SSO/SAML support, SCIM provisioning, and enterprise SLAs.
“Our team is distributed across three continents and ten time zones. Team members say they appreciate starting their day seeing everyone else’s accomplishments and goals, and ending it with sharing their own. Steady helps the team see the bigger picture of what's happening.”
Janet SwisherCommunity Lead & Project Manager @ Mozilla
Frequently asked questions
How are Steady and Range different?
Range focuses on async check-ins, meetings, and basic goal tracking with an emphasis on team building and icebreakers. Steady is a complete team coordination platform that includes check-ins plus AI agents (Echoes) that deliver context automatically, living team directories, deeper insights and analytics, and tools to eliminate coordination overhead entirely. If you need more than check-ins and meetings, Steady gives you a complete solution.
Can Steady replace Range for our team?
Yes. Steady’s Smart Check-ins handle everything Range does for daily check-ins and goal tracking, with deeper integrations and AI-generated highlights. You also get Echoes for automated context delivery, living team directories, and pattern-spotting insights that Range 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.
Does Steady have icebreakers and team building features like Range?
Steady focuses on eliminating coordination overhead rather than team building exercises, but you can use Echoes to create and deliver ice-breakers to you before your team meeting.
How hard is it to migrate from Range 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 Range. Most teams are fully migrated within days. Our support team can help if you need it.
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See for yourself how Steady helps teams work better, together.