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Sprint retros shouldn’t end with a Google Doc nobody reads.

Unpack replaces scattered rituals with one platform where standups feed retros, retros produce real action items, and nothing falls through the cracks.

Free for teams up to 10 · No credit card required

Sound familiar?

These aren’t edge cases. They’re every team’s Tuesday.

The silence problem

Two people talk. Everyone else watches the clock. The honest feedback stays in Slack DMs after the meeting — where it can’t change anything.

The articulation gap

People know something’s wrong but can’t name it. “Communication is bad” goes on a sticky note. Nothing changes because nobody said what’s actually broken.

The action item graveyard

You leave with five action items. By Wednesday nobody remembers who owned what. Next sprint, you’re writing the same ones again.

The tool sprawl tax

Retros in Miro. Standups in Slack. Planning in spreadsheets. Nothing connects, so insights from Monday’s standup never reach Friday’s retro.

How Unpack works

One loop. Every sprint ritual connected.

Standup themes feed your retro. Retro action items track into the next sprint. Sprint goals shape tomorrow’s standup. It’s a closed loop — not four disconnected tools.

Standup

Retro

Actions

Planning

Standup blockers surface retro topics automatically

Anonymous by default

Everyone speaks up.
Not just the loud ones.

Cards are anonymous until the author decides otherwise. The junior engineer with the best insight doesn’t have to weigh politics. When the idea stands on its own, better ideas win.

“We keep shipping without QA because product pressures us. It’s burning out the team.”

Anonymous

“The deploy process change saved us 3 incidents this sprint.”

Anonymous

“Standup is 30 min now. We need a format change.”

Revealed by author

AI coaching

Every participant gets a
thinking partner. Privately.

Before anyone shares publicly, an AI coach works with each person one-on-one. It turns “I’m frustrated” into “The handoff doc was missing deployment steps and it cost us two incidents.”

During discussions, facilitators get an AI co-pilot that synthesizes themes, suggests probing questions, and drafts SMART action items — so commitments are specific from the start.

AI coach conversation

You

I’m feeling frustrated this sprint.

AI Coach

What’s been the most draining part? Let’s make it specific enough to act on.

You

The deploy process broke twice and we had no runbook.

Suggested card

“Deploy process failed twice this sprint with no runbook. Need documented rollback steps.”

AI-grouped themes

Deploy confidence

4 cards · 12 votes

Meeting load

3 cards · 9 votes

Cross-team wins

2 cards · 7 votes

Structure without busywork

Thirty cards, clustered
in seconds. Not by the facilitator.

AI reads every card, finds patterns, and groups them into themes your team can discuss. Eight guided phases — check-in through commit — keep the retro on track so the facilitator can lead the conversation instead of managing logistics.

Check-in

Mood pulse

Reflect

Write cards

Group

AI themes

Vote

Prioritize

Discuss

Dive deep

Commit

Set actions

Close

Summary

Standup response

Yesterday

Deployed auth refactor, reviewed PR for payment flow

Today

Fix flaky tests, start API rate limiting

Blockers

Waiting on staging DB migration approval from DevOps

AI Summary

Team velocity strong. DevOps bottlenecks raised 3x this week — bridging to next retro.

Async standups

Daily check-ins without
the daily meeting.

Team members post yesterday/today/blockers async. AI summarizes at close and flags recurring themes. No calendar invite. No waiting for everyone to unmute.

The real payoff: standup themes flow into your next retro automatically. Blockers raised daily become discussion topics biweekly. Continuous signal, not disconnected snapshots.

Action items

Add QA gate to deploy pipeline Linear
Cap standup at 15 min
Schedule cross-team demo Carried over

Synced to Linear · 2 of 3 complete · 67% completion rate

Tracked commitments

Action items that don’t
disappear by Wednesday.

Every commitment gets an owner and a deadline. Sync to Jira or Linear — status changes flow back automatically. Incomplete items carry over to the next retro so your team can’t pretend they never existed.

Slack notifications when retros open, when action items land, and weekly digests of what’s still open. Your sprint outcomes show up where your team already works.

What you’re replacing

Google Docs

No structure, no anonymity, no follow-through

Miro / FigJam

Too freeform, no phases, no action tracking

EasyRetro

No AI coaching, no standup integration

Slack standups

No AI summary, no retro bridge

Winging it

Scrum master asks on Zoom and hopes

Your sprint rituals should
compound, not evaporate.

Stop juggling Slack standups, Google Doc retros, and spreadsheet planning. Run your entire sprint cadence in one platform where the data actually flows between ceremonies.

Free for teams up to 10 · No credit card required