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Chris Messina

Axel - Powerful rituals to drive your team to success.

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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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Ryan Hoover
At Product Hunt we used Humble Dot for weekly standups. Unfortunately, they had to shut the service down. Axel might be a good alternative.
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@rrhoover Hi Ryan! We’d love to have the Product Hunt team among our early adopters πŸ˜„ . Who should I talk to within PH to schedule a quick walkthrough?
Emily Hodgins
@rrhoover @weiss_arnaud πŸ™‹β€β™€οΈ
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@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...
Alexandre Attia
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 !
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@alexattia Thanks a lot Alex! Your insights as a CTO were very useful to improve the product.
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
Hi hunters and thanks Chris πŸ™ 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 SlackπŸš€. 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 πŸ’Έ. You just have to subscribe before the 25/12 to our yearly plan with the code PHunter4ever. Cheers,
Szymon Adamiak
It looks interesting. Is there a mechanism to convince employees to use it? Like gamification?
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@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?
Szymon Adamiak
@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.
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@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 😊
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@sadamiak @weiss_arnaud My pleasure !
Anonymous Lawyer
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!
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@hwehero_gippal Thanks a lot for your support!
Yannick Mathey
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.
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@yannick_mthy Thanks a lot Yannick! Your insights were incredibly useful to build the product
Nazim Nachi
As a new manager, This product help me build efficient rituals with my team. I strongly recommend it !
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@nazim_nachi Thanks Nazim! We're happy that Axel helps you!
Jesse Treharne
Really awesome product, could not live without it. Makes the tedious parts of being a manager much easier.
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@jesse_treharne Thanks a lot Jesse!
Roman Nathan Eisemberg
We gonna try this! Look amazing!
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@romeck Thanks Roman! Looking forward to hearing your feedback :D
Florian
Really nice set up and great idea ! Florian
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@florian2015 Thanks a lot! Happy that you like it
Edouard PETIT
Simple and efficient. As a beta tester, I highly recommend Axel to apply managerial best practices and boost employees engagement!
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@edouardpetit Thanks a lot Edouard! We appreciate your support ;)
Brian Fritton
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.
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@brian_fritton Thanks a lot Brian!
Francoo
Love the product and the team !
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@francoolaami Many thanks Francoo!
Ilija Ćosić
This tool is freaking amazing. Just love it.
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@ilija_cosic Thanks a lot! We appreciate your support :)
Romain Palmieri
One of the best product out there to build a culture of transparency within your team!
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@romainpalmieri Many thanks Romain for your support!
Romaric Philogène
Super mega cool product
Johnny Quach
Planning to integrate with MS teams? Or know of an alternative?
Arnaud Weiss
Maker
@johnnyquachy release for MS is planned next week! We’ll let you know
Brian Schmidt
Thumbs up!
Mathias le Masne
Great innovative firm with a dynamic and lively team.
Jason Destruction
Love it