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First of all, Happy Birthday Nick! 🎂 🎉 🎈 🎁 (I saw it in LinkedIn) Then, congrats on the launch! I think that these SaaS decisions are very actual for every company more than 5 employees. I faced this challenge when I was a CEO of a big team (more than 20). I didn't remember birthdays, so we didn't congratulate in time. Also, I didn't have the list of employees, with their additional contacts phone numbers. And one time it was a situation when 1 employee wasn't in touch during 4-5 hours (working day) and I even didn't know, whom to write, call (we all worked remotely) Also when we hired HR, she didn't know where to sum all the results from 1-1 calls with the employees. Then we started work with HR system. It didn't suit very good, but it was better than to be without. It didn't have an opportunity to add custom fields, but I wanted to add "Foreign language level" So my wishes to you (if you don't have): - make birthday reminders - make custom fields - make summary for HR 1-1, 360 and etc I believe you will achieve the success. That's the way!

We work with the Standuply Teams scrum bot on a regular basis. In my experience regular asynchronous standups may turn into status updates and team may feel the monotony. So we combine async/face-to-face formats but still with a Standuply bot. We set up this bot so that it collects an agenda before a meeting, and then sends everyone a link to this meeting, which is also held through scrum bot and at this face-to-face meeting, all team members can see the prepared agenda on their screens and talk on topic. At offline meetings, we sometimes run the Standuply automation of a Planning Poker or demonstrate graphs and analytics collected from task trackers. That fills live meetings with visual point.