HowsThisGoing

By replacing live daily standup meetings with asynchronous check-ins collected directly in Slack, HowsThisGoing eliminates the scheduling overhead of synchronous standups while ensuring that team members still provide regular progress updatesregardless of time zone, work schedule, or availability.

The platform collects standup responses from team members via automated Slack prompts and then uses AI to distill those updates into concise, actionable summaries that managers and teammates can review in seconds rather than sitting through meeting recaps.

According to the platform, this AI summarization saves managers approximately two hours per week previously spent reading through long-form individual updates or attending status meetings that could have been an async message.

HowsThisGoing includes a natural language query interface that allows anyone on the team to ask questions about standup data without filtering through individual posts manually.

Queries like 'What is the team working on this week?' or 'Who is blocked?' can be answered instantly by the AI, surfacing relevant information from recent standups without requiring manual searches through Slack message history.

The system also proactively flags when a team member has not submitted a recent update, enabling managers to follow up before gaps in communication become problems.

The tool integrates with GitHub to enrich standup updates with development activity data, providing additional context about code changes, pull requests, and commits alongside self-reported progress notes.