How to run an async standup on Starch

An async standup is how distributed and hybrid teams stay aligned without a daily calendar block. Instead of pulling everyone into a meeting at 9am, each person answers the same three questions — what did I do yesterday, what am I doing today, is anything blocking me — on their own schedule, usually in Slack or email. The team reads updates when they have context, not when a calendar invite fires.

What this looks like in practice varies: a four-person product team might post in a Slack channel every morning; a solo operator managing contractors might send a Friday summary by email; a ops-heavy team might tie updates directly to open tasks in their project tracker. The format is flexible. The discipline isn't.

On Starch, the daily friction disappears. Your open tasks from Project Management surface automatically in the standup prompt. Responses come back into a single thread — no hunting across Slack channels or inboxes. By the time you sit down in the morning, yesterday's blockers are flagged, today's priorities are listed next to who owns them, and anything unanswered from the previous round is already marked for follow-up. You see a clean daily digest, not a pile of messages to sort through.