Async standups for remote teams
Nestly turns your daily standup into a 90-second async check-in. Your team answers three questions on their own time — Nestly handles the rest and drops the summary in Slack.
No credit card. Free for teams up to 5 people.
The problem
Fifteen minutes, they said. Then come the tangents, the "quick" follow-ups, and the five minutes everyone spends just waiting for stragglers to join. Multiply it across the week and the whole team and you've buried a serious chunk of deep work.
How it works
Nestly runs the same tight loop every day so nothing slips and nobody has to dial in.
At a time you pick, Nestly nudges everyone with the same three questions. No app to open, no link to hunt for.
→Each person answers in under two minutes, whenever it suits their morning — coffee in hand, on their own clock.
→Nestly stitches the answers into a clean digest, flags the blockers, and posts it straight to Slack.
→Then it does it again tomorrow. Prompt → Response → Summary. Forever, without a single calendar invite.
Features
The visibility, the accountability, the "are we okay?" gut-check. All of it, async.
Yesterday, today, blockers. Structured enough to be useful, short enough that people actually do it.
Nestly digests every response into one scannable update — so you read the room in 30 seconds, not 30 minutes.
The summary lands where your team already lives. No new tab, no new habit — just the daily digest in the channel you choose, on the schedule you set.
Beyond the to-dos, Nestly reads sentiment and blocker trends to surface how your team is actually doing — before it shows up in a 1:1.
Pricing
Start free. Pay only when your team grows past five.
Free for up to 5 people. $12/seat/month after that. Cancel anytime.
Give your team back the half hour they never agreed to lose. Set up your first async standup in minutes.
Start your first async standup today — free.
Social proof
Notes from the front lines.
Teams that ditched the daily meeting and didn't look back.
We’re split across five time zones, so “daily standup” meant someone was always dialing in at 6am or 10pm. We dropped the meeting in March. Last month our check-in completion was 94% — higher than meeting attendance ever hit.
I had one engineer who could turn “what did you do yesterday” into a 12-minute monologue while eight people sat muted. Now his update is three bullets I skim with my coffee. We got the 9am slot back and honestly he seems happier writing it than saying it.
The health score flagged my team trending down before I’d noticed — three straight weeks of “minor” blockers I’d been brushing off. I booked 1:1s that Thursday instead of finding out in the quarterly eng survey two months later.