Teams & Projects

    Nobody writes a status report. The meetings already are one.

    Stand-ups, retros, steering committees and delivery reviews already contain everything a status roll-up needs. meetapp.ai reads them, scores every team and every project against the dimensions you already argue about, and chases whatever nobody covered.

    It scores the team, never the person. Blockers nobody is clearing. Decisions that keep being reopened. Commitments made and kept. Things a team can act on together.

    The meeting problem

    Most meetings violate common sense

    Not because the people in them are careless. Because a meeting is the only process most businesses run with no specification, no record of what it was supposed to establish, and no check on whether it did. We would not accept that anywhere else.

    It starts without a stated purpose.

    Every other process has a spec. A room's purpose is set before anyone joins, and that purpose becomes the agenda.

    The agenda is abandoned by item three.

    Whatever the meeting never reached is logged as a gap against the dimension it was meant to feed — before anyone leaves.

    Actions leave the room without an owner or a date.

    Commitments are lifted out with the name and the date attached, from the words that were actually said.

    The next one re-establishes what the last one decided.

    Decisions and open loops carry forward. The session starts where the previous one stopped, not where memory failed.

    The person who actually decides was never in the room.

    Coverage shows which of the people this work needs have actually been in a room with you. A decision-maker you have never met is a red cell, not a footnote.

    Nobody checks whether any of it happened.

    What the room agreed is checked against what actually happened — not to grade anyone, but so nothing quietly falls through.

    A meeting with a purpose is a unit of work.

    None of these are hard problems. They survive because nothing holds a meeting to its own purpose. Give the room a purpose, hold the agenda to it, and take the record out automatically — and the hour stops being something you report on afterwards and starts being where the work gets done.

    Two room types

    A team is not a project

    A project spans teams and a team spans projects — many-to-many, and the meetings in each are about different things. Collapsing them into one board forces a choice between who is accountable and what is being delivered. Both boards run on the same engine, and a team can be strained while every project it touches still ships.

    Team Rooms

    Every team gets a room. The weekly lands, commitments are lifted out with names against them, and the board shows which teams are actually delivering what they said they would.

    A row is
    Team
    Grouped by
    Function
    Cadence
    every 7 days
    Leads with
    Delivery & Throughput
    Project Rooms

    Every project gets a room. Status comes out of the meeting itself rather than a slide someone wrote the night before — so the board shows the position, not the presentation.

    A row is
    Project
    Grouped by
    Phase
    Cadence
    every 14 days
    Leads with
    Schedule

    Six dimensions. Yours, not ours.

    Every business judges health differently. meetapp.ai is configured to the dimensions and weights you already argue about in your own reviews — then holds every team to them consistently, across the whole book.

    These are not invented dashboard metrics. Clarity of ownership, participation, alignment and follow-through are long-established constructs in organisational research. What has always been missing is a way to measure them without asking people to fill in a survey about themselves — self-reported, months late, and answered the way people wish things were. Reading the conversation measures the behaviour instead.

    Delivery & Throughput
    20%

    What the team committed to, against what actually shipped.

    The room listens for
    commitments completedcarry-over between meetingsscope dropped mid-week
    Accountability
    20%

    Commitments made in the room, and whether they land.

    The room listens for
    commitments keptsilent missesre-dated commitments
    Clarity & Alignment
    15%

    Whether the team leaves with the same understanding of what matters.

    The room listens for
    restated decisionsconflicting priorities raisedquestions reopened
    Blockers & Risk
    15%

    Impediments raised, owned and cleared.

    The room listens for
    blockers raiseddays openescalations made
    Decision Velocity
    15%

    How long a decision takes from raised to made.

    The room listens for
    decisions madedecisions deferredtime from raised to resolved
    Participation
    15%

    Whether the whole room contributes, or three people do.

    The room listens for
    speaking distributionsilent attendeesquestions asked

    Weights sum to 100. The overall score is the weighted sum of what's visible — no hidden adjustments, no black box. Change what you measure and the rooms start listening for it.

    Group your work streams the way you actually manage them

    Your board isn't a portfolio unless you call it one. It's a function, a pipeline stage, a client lifecycle, a delivery phase — whatever Monday morning is organised around, under whatever word your people already use: portfolio, book, programme, pipeline. Pick the axis and the board regroups: same rooms, same scores, triaged for whoever's accountable.

    Function
    Engineering
    Function
    Product
    Function
    Operations
    Function
    Commercial
    Function
    Finance
    Function
    People
    Live, not a video

    Two boards, one engine. Switch between them.

    Filter the book, sort it worst-first, open a row, click a dimension through to the quote behind it, generate this week's digest. Every room here is the same engine reading a different conversation. Fictitious data, real engine.

    Team Rooms

    Every team gets a room. The weekly lands, commitments are lifted out with names against them, and the board shows which teams are actually delivering what they said they would.

    15 teams
    Function axis
    15 teams7 healthy3 watch2 critical3 not enough signal
    Team
    Score
    Nothing stays missing

    The part that goes and gets what's missing

    Every dashboard tells you what it knows. This one works on what it doesn't. The gap scanner runs continuously across the whole book, and everything it finds has an owner and a route home.

    Never covered

    The agenda called for it; the meeting didn't reach it.

    Unanswered

    Asked for, acknowledged, not delivered.

    Gone stale

    Last signal is older than this dimension tolerates.

    Unowned

    A commitment with no name or no date against it.

    Into the next agenda

    As an item to Ask, Confirm or Bring — leading the meeting.

    Into the weekly digest

    As a request with a reply scaffold; the reply closes it.

    Straight to whoever owes it

    A chase with the original ask quoted back.

    Silence is a signal, not an absence.

    A request that goes unanswered for three weeks doesn't leave the score unchanged — it lowers confidence in it. Data quality erodes the longer you go without the next update, and that erosion belongs on the screen, not in someone's head.

    Built for the people running delivery

    Engineering / function lead

    Status is assembled by asking six people the same question every Monday

    The team's score comes out of the stand-ups and reviews already happening
    Delivery / programme manager

    A project looks green until the week the date moves, and then it was always red

    Schedule and scope are scored from what was said, so drift shows up while it is small
    COO / Head of Operations

    Team health and project health are different questions answered by the same RAG column

    Two room types, two boards — a team can be strained while its projects ship, and you see both
    Exec sponsor

    The escalation arrives after the decision needed to prevent it was already possible

    Blockers that surfaced three times with nobody clearing them lead the next agenda

    Two configurations of one engine

    Team Rooms and Project Rooms are two of eleven room types running on the same machine — same evidence rules, same gap scanner, same refusal to score what nobody has said. Point it at a sales pipeline or a portfolio and nothing about the engine changes.