Overview
Async standups accumulate hundreds of messages a week. Nobody reads them all. This Zap pulls the week's standup posts by author, generates a per-person weekly summary (what they shipped, what they're blocked on, what's next), and produces a team-level rollup pinned in the channel every Friday.
How it works
- Schedule trigger: Fridays at 3pm local time.
- Slack: get messages from #standup for the last 7 days.
- Group by user; send each user's messages to GPT-4o-mini for a per-person summary.
- Concatenate + one more call for the team rollup.
- Post both back to Slack; pin the team rollup.
Benefits
- Managers get one weekly artifact instead of scrolling.
- Blocked items become visible earlier.
- New teammates skim history in 5 minutes.
Use cases
- Remote engineering teams.
- Cross-functional squads with weekly rituals.
- Founders needing lightweight visibility across 3-5 teams.
Step-by-step guide
Step 1: Set up the channel
One #standup channel. Enforce a simple template: Shipped / Doing / Blocked.
Step 2: Pull the week's messages
Zapier's Slack action for channel messages, filter to standups (top-level, not replies).
Step 3: Per-person summary prompt
GPT-4o-mini: 'Summarise this person's week in 3 bullets: shipped, doing, blocked. Preserve their voice.'
Step 4: Team rollup
'Given these per-person summaries, write a 5-bullet team rollup emphasising shared blockers.'
Step 5: Post + pin
Post per-person summaries as a thread, team rollup as top-level, pin it.
Example
Team rollup: '• Shipped: MCP eval harness (Sam), Stripe migration phase 2 (Priya). • Blocked: three engineers waiting on infra permissions — infra team, please check DMs.'