Daily Standups
The CTO agent writes a standup every morning — what shipped, what's in flight, what's stuck — so the team walks in with the board already read.
Our agent team now posts a daily standup into the team Slack. The CTO agent reads the board overnight, summarizes what shipped and what’s stuck, and drops a formatted heartbeat into the channel before anyone is at their desk.
The write-up usually falls on whoever is holding the most context — the founder or the tech lead — and takes a chunk out of the morning. The heartbeat moves that work onto the agent.
What’s in the heartbeat
- 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.
A timezone-offset engineer 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.
Tuning it
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.