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Axel β Powerful rituals to drive your team to success.
Axel is a virtual assistant who helps you develop a culture of transparency and ownership in your team. You set up the right 1:1 and weekly check-in from templates in a few clicks. Our secret sauce: no need to add another tool, everything is done in Slack.
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@rrhoover Hi Ryan! Weβd love to have the Product Hunt team among our early adopters π . Who should I talk to within PH to schedule a quick walkthrough?
@ejsnowdon Happy to connect Emily! You can send me an email at arnaud@heyaxel.com or directly schedule a meeting in my agenda https://meetings.hubspot.com/arn...
I was part of the beta testers community since day one! Axel helps me make everyone in my team accountable and develop a culture of results! The "mood" feature was a killer for me as well. I get an overview of my team's motivation at any time.
@yannick_mthy Thanks a lot Yannick! Your insights were incredibly useful to build the product
Simple and efficient. As a beta tester, I highly recommend Axel to apply managerial best practices and boost employees engagement!
Do people actually use it? I would be worried that employees would be reluctant to tell their bosses how they feel? Isn't it always "I'm good. Don't fire me because I always am good."
Hi hunters and thanks Chris π
With Jeanne and Antoine, we're excited to introduce you to Axel! Axel sets up powerful rituals for your team (stand up, 1:1...), 100% through Slackπ.
We've interviewed more than a hundred managers and C-level from the best companies in the world (Stripe, Google, Qonto...) to understand the foundations of successful management.
We learnt two things while running these interviews:
-Successful team leaders have rituals (such as 1:1) meant to develop a culture of ownership and empowerment
-Excellence is idiosyncratic, there is no "one-ritual-fits-all"
We built Axel to help you leverage best-in-class rituals templates. BUT we've made sure you can personnalise them as much as you want to build your own path to success!
We're looking forward to hearing your feedback! We have a one month free trial and we're offering product hunt community 50% off forever πΈ. You just have to subscribe before the 25/12 to our yearly plan with the code PHunter4ever.
Cheers,
Hi Team! Noticed your product, quick question: what is the recommended team size to start implementing this? Have you found a magic number in your customer discovery? When using Axel is less time-consuming than doing it manually?
This is cool! We're building a chatbot that does this and a bit more: https://www.dailybot.com - it's great to see more initiatives in this space. Congrats
It looks interesting. Is there a mechanism to convince employees to use it? Like gamification?
@sadamiak Hi Szymon,
Thanks for your question. So far we didn't implement any gamification mechanism, as we believe that it's a managerial responsibility to make sure that everyone in the team shares their progress and goals. There are reminders though. But it could definitely be a leverage to increase adoption!
Do you have anything specific you'd like to see implemented?
@sadamiak @weiss_arnaud Nothing specific in mind. In my experience many employees are reluctant to use such tools or provide brief and superficial answers. Live stand-ups are easier, people are more likely to engage. So I was wondering if you've got any solutions for that.
@sadamiak @weiss_arnaud What we've observed so far:
-Most companies use Axel to prepare meetings rather than replace them. The idea is to make sure that everyone prepared their part seriously beforehand.
-We have very good completion rates so far. Nevertheless, we noticed the repetition of the same questions every week / day is driving completion down on the long run. That's why we're working on a "roulette" feature for meetings. It wil pick randomly a question among a pool at every occurence π
Very clean, easy way to sync with your team. I like that it asks more about the capacity, stress level, etc. of your team than just project status. It feels far less big brother than other solutions as well.
As a beta user of Axel for multiple weeks, I can only recommend this virtual assistant. Very intuitive and very useful to manage teams (tech and non-tech). Settings rituals can help to get feedback and insights in easier way.
Congrats on the great work !
@alexattia Thanks a lot Alex! Your insights as a CTO were very useful to improve the product.
Really awesome product, could not live without it. Makes the tedious parts of being a manager much easier.
As a new manager, This product help me build efficient rituals with my team. I strongly recommend it !
I've been following Axel for a while now as a promising French startup and I'm super happy to see them on PH. The idea is great and the execution also, with a talented and dedicated team. I recommended them to my company, hope that we will follow through!
One of the best product out there to build a culture of transparency within your team!
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