Async standups for Microsoft Teams
The same check-ins and reminders asyncmate runs in Slack, now in Microsoft Teams: a personal prompt, a short form, one digest in the channel. Free for up to 10 people who answer.
What works on Teams today
This is the shipped list, not the roadmap.
- Async standups and check-ins: each person gets a personal message from the bot and answers in a short form, no meeting
- A digest in the channel you choose, with every answer in its thread
- The AI summary on top of the digest: what shipped, who is blocked, what needs a decision (paid plan)
- Delivery at each person's own local time, inside a response window you choose
- Reminders to any channel, free for any number of people
- Polls with a live tally in the channel, anonymous surveys included; voters are always free
- Kudos: mention the bot in a channel to thank a teammate in public, tracked on the dashboard
- Bot commands in chat: status, skip, snooze, out of office, timezone, polls and help, the same verbs as the Slack slash command
- Hours logging: a daily card with one-tap amounts and an exact-hours dialog, with the same review, calendar and export
- The same dashboard, reporting and export as Slack workspaces, side by side in one account
Weighing it against Geekbot, DailyBot or Standuply on Teams? Our comparison of Microsoft Teams standup bots puts eight of them side by side on pricing, free plans and install friction, ours included.
Coming later, in the order teams ask:
- Microsoft Teams Store listing (the beta installs through your org's app catalog)
From app package to first standup
Teams has no marketplace OAuth flow like Slack, so connecting works with a claim code instead. It is three steps, and only the first one involves an admin.
1. Add the app to a team
You get the asyncmate app package from us during the beta. A Teams admin uploads it to the org app catalog once, then anyone can add it to a team.
2. Link it with a code
When the bot joins, it posts a short code in the team. Enter it in the asyncmate dashboard and the team is linked to your account. No OAuth dance, about a minute end to end.
3. Schedule your first check-in
Pick the standup preset, choose participants and a digest channel, and the next run delivers itself. Members and channels are synced for you.
Microsoft Teams FAQ
- Does asyncmate for Teams need admin consent?
- No org-wide Graph permissions and no admin-consent screen. The app uses resource-specific permissions that only cover the teams it is added to. A Teams admin does need to allow the app itself (upload it to the org catalog during the beta), which is standard for any custom app.
- What works on Teams today?
- Check-ins (standups) and reminders end to end: scheduled delivery, the answer form, the channel digest with threaded answers, the AI summary, timezones and reporting. Polls, kudos, hours logging and the bot commands run on Teams as well. Not yet: posting digests into private channels, and the Teams Store listing (the beta installs through your org catalog).
- What does it cost on Teams?
- The same as on Slack: free for up to 10 people who answer, then $2.50 a month per person who answers. Reminders are free for any number of people. A Slack workspace and a Teams team are billed as separate workspaces.
- Can I run Slack and Teams side by side?
- Yes. Workspaces from both platforms live in one asyncmate account, and the switcher in the dashboard moves between them. Each team or workspace keeps its own check-ins, roster and billing.
- Why is it a beta?
- The Teams app is not in the Microsoft Teams Store yet, so installing it takes the org-catalog step above. The check-in and reminder engine underneath is the same one that runs the Slack product.
- Which standup bots work in Microsoft Teams?
- Geekbot, DailyBot, Standuply, StandupBot, ScrumGenius, Jell and Polly all have Teams apps, with different billing rules and install paths; asyncmate's Teams app is the newest of them. The comparison above goes through all eight on pricing, free plans and what an admin has to approve.
- Do people get notified in Teams?
- Check-in prompts arrive as personal chat messages from the bot, which notify like any chat. The digest posts to a channel; Teams does not notify on every channel post by default, so the prompt-by-DM design is what keeps standups from being missed.
Bring async standups to your Teams team
Create a free account, and the dashboard walks you through the app package and the claim code. If 10 people who answer is enough, it stays free.