Daily Standups
The CTO agent writes a standup every morning, covering what shipped, what’s in flight and what’s stuck, so the team walks in with the board already read.
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Our agent team now posts a daily standup into the team Slack. The CTO agent reads the board overnight, summarises what shipped and what’s stuck, and drops a formatted heartbeat into the channel before anyone is at their desk.
The write-up falls on whoever holds the most context, the founder or the tech lead, and it takes a chunk out of their morning. The heartbeat moves that work onto the agent.
What’s in the daily standup?
Five things:
- Live board snapshot per project: total tickets, done, in progress, blocked, and backlog.
- Completed since the last heartbeat, grouped by project.
- Blocked items, with the agent that raised the block.
- Backlog priorities for the next cycle: what the planner is about to pick up.
- Bottom line: a one-sentence read from the CTO on where the week is trending.
An engineer in another timezone opens Slack, reads the heartbeat, and has the same picture as the team that was online overnight, without opening the board, scrolling chat, or pinging anyone. If the founder is on a plane or the tech lead is heads-down, the status still goes out.
Can you change the format?
Yes. The format lives in the CTO agent’s memory: your voice, your project names, the sections you want to see. Daily is the default; twice-daily and weekly both work. Change the format and the next heartbeat picks it up.
Labeeb Khan
Twelve years building machine learning systems that power tens of millions of daily interactions, at Deloitte, Aviva, Intact and TransUnion. Labeeb leads every first conversation.
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