Dailybot in 5 minutes: your first check-in

You decided to try Dailybot. Maybe your standups are eating too much time, or your remote team’s updates are scattered across channels and threads. Whatever the reason, you want to see results fast.

Here is the good news: your first check-in takes less than five minutes to set up, and your team does not need to install anything. Dailybot works inside the chat platform you already use.

Step 1: Add Dailybot to your workspace

Go to dailybot.com and sign up. During setup, connect Dailybot to the chat platform your team uses — Slack, Discord, Google Chat, or Microsoft Teams. The integration takes about 30 seconds. Authorize the app and you are ready.

Step 2: Create a check-in

From the Dailybot dashboard, create a new check-in. Give it a name that your team will recognize, like “Daily Standup” or “Morning Check-in.”

Now pick your questions. Dailybot comes with smart defaults, but the classic three are hard to beat for a first check-in:

1. What did you accomplish since your last check-in?
2. What are you planning to work on today?
3. Any blockers or things you need help with?

These three questions give you a clear picture of team progress, upcoming work, and risks. You can always add more questions later as you learn what your team needs.

Step 3: Select your team

Choose who should receive this check-in. You can select individual team members or entire channels. Start with your immediate team — you can expand later.

Step 4: Set a schedule

Pick when the check-in runs. Most teams start with weekday mornings — say, 9:00 AM in each person’s local timezone. Dailybot handles timezone differences automatically, so your team in New York and your team in Berlin both get prompted at a reasonable hour.

You can also set a response window. This is how long team members have to answer before the check-in closes. A 4-hour window is a common starting point.

Step 5: Launch it

Hit save and your check-in is active. At the next scheduled time, every selected team member gets a direct message from Dailybot with your questions. They answer in a conversational flow, and responses are collected in a central summary.

That is it. Five minutes, and your team has an async standup running.

What happens next

When responses start coming in, you will see them in the Dailybot dashboard as a summarized feed. Each person’s answers are grouped together, making it easy to scan the whole team’s progress in a couple of minutes.

Pay attention to a few things in the first week. Are people answering consistently? If not, try adjusting the schedule or shortening the questions. Are the answers useful? If they are too vague, consider adding a follow-up question that prompts for specifics.

Beyond the basics

Once your first check-in is running smoothly, explore what else Dailybot can do. Add mood tracking to your check-in questions to gauge team sentiment. Set up conditional follow-ups that fire based on specific answers. Connect coding agents to add their updates to the same feed.

Your first check-in is the foundation. Everything else builds on it.