Collect and summarize async standup updates
Zapier's internal agents gather async standup updates and summarize them, letting teams replace five daily standups with two weekly sessions.
Done withZapier Agents
- What they did
- Andrew Kordampalos's team at Zapier saw daily standups eating too much time. They built two small agents on Zapier's own platform. One pinged each team member for an async update. The other summarized the updates for everyone. Slack was the coordination layer, and new agents were tested in sandbox channels before going to production.
- How it went
- The daily standup turned into a twice-a-week sync almost overnight. The source gives no figures for time saved or summary quality, and says a new agent idea typically takes days to build.
- Worth knowing
- Launch the agents in a controlled sandbox channel first and check the signal-to-noise ratio before rolling them out to the team.
Try it yourself with Zapier Agents
Every weekday at [time], collect async standup updates from [Slack channel or form] for [team name]. Summarize them into one post grouped by person, with blockers called out at the top, and list any items that need a decision. Draft the summary and show it to me before posting it to [channel]; the job is done once I approve and it's posted.
Source: getdx.com · Undated
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