Dailybot
Dailybot is a team coordination platform that runs inside Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat and Discord. It collects async check-ins from people and AI agents, compiles them into AI reports, flags blockers and triggers follow-up automations.
What is Dailybot?
Dailybot describes itself as an intelligence and coordination layer for teams and the AI agents working beside them. The premise, stated bluntly on the homepage, is that work has a visibility problem: updates die in threads, blockers hide in direct messages, and in 2026 that problem doubled because agents are already in the stack and none of them show up to standup. Dailybot's answer is to make both populations report through the same channel.
The product runs where the team already talks — Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat and Discord — and is built around a four-step loop. Work checks in wherever it happens: people answer scheduled questions in chat, agents push activity and health through the CLI or the API. Signals then become clarity, with AI summaries, early blocker detection and fleet health at a glance. Clarity becomes action, as automations route approvals, notify owners, create or update tickets and let a human instruct an agent or an agent hand off to another. Finally, kudos keep the human layer alive so recognition does not vanish once machines join the picture.
Five building blocks carry this: Check-ins, Automations, Intelligence, Tables and Kudos. Beyond chat, Dailybot reaches into code editors (VS Code, Cursor), the terminal through its CLI, and the browser through a Chrome extension. Developers get a REST API at api.dailybot.com/v1 authenticated with an X-API-KEY header, webhooks and custom commands, while an installable agent skill pack with thirteen sub-skills plugs into Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and Copilot. Sixteen native connectors cover chat, engineering tools such as GitHub, Bitbucket, Jira, Linear, Shortcut, ClickUp and Trello, plus Google Calendar, Zapier and Integrately.
Behind the product is DailyBot, Inc., a Delaware corporation that went through Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch. The company claims more than 10,000 teams, a 4.8 rating from over 100 reviews and a 99.9% uptime SLA, and backs its enterprise pitch with SOC 2 Type II certification and AWS hosting in the United States.
What it does
- Collect scheduled async check-ins from team members directly in chat
- Compile responses into clean reports and AI-written summaries
- Detect blockers automatically and escalate them to the right owner
- Track what AI agents are doing, whether they are stuck and whether they are alive
- Run automations that create tickets, notify owners, gate CI/CD approvals or call an API
- Give and track recognition through kudos and a team leaderboard
- Report on participation, trends and team sentiment over time
When to use Dailybot / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Dailybot is the right fit.
When to use Dailybot
- Distributed or fully async teams that already run daily standups and want the ritual to survive without a meeting
- Engineering managers and CTOs whose developers now work alongside coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot or Gemini, and who need those agent runs to report somewhere
- Product and operations leads who chase status across Jira, Linear, Trello or ClickUp and want one compiled report instead
- Startup founders and small agencies looking for a cheap entry point with unlimited members and no seat minimum
- People and HR teams that want recognition, mood signals and anonymous feedback to live in the same chat as the work
When not to use Dailybot
- Teams looking for a live-meeting notetaker: Dailybot is async-first and its own comparison pages point to Spinach for transcription of spoken ceremonies
- Anyone who needs in-meeting polling, word clouds or audience Q&A during a video call, which the site concedes it does not replicate
- Organisations that want OKR or goal tracking wired directly into standups, a gap Dailybot attributes to Jell
- Teams that need deep bidirectional Jira-Slack ticket editing rather than read-only project context
- Groups with no chat platform in place, or that require a native mobile app, EU data residency or Scrum planning poker
How to use Dailybot
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Sign up at app.dailybot.com without a credit card, or add the bot straight to your chat workspace
- Authenticate through your platform's SSO — Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google or Discord — and enable two-factor authentication if you use an email account
- Pick the team that will take part in a check-in
- Choose the questions to ask and the schedule to ask them on
- Let Dailybot send the reminders and gather answers in the chat channel
- Read the compiled report, or ask for it in chat with a command such as @dailybot send me today's standup report
- Review the AI summary, the flagged blockers and the smart insights it raises
- Wire automations so a blocker becomes a ticket, a notification or an approval step
- Generate an API key from the developer quick start, then connect agents through the REST API, the CLI or the agent skill pack
- Install the Chrome extension or the editor integration so people can check in without leaving their tab or their IDE
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Lives inside the chat tool the team already uses, so there is no extra app to adopt
- Covers all four major chat platforms — Slack, Teams, Google Chat and Discord — which few competitors do
- Rare in treating AI agents as accountable team members rather than invisible background processes
- Permanent free plan plus a free trial, with unlimited members on every tier and no credit card to start
- Very low paid entry point at 2.40 USD per active user per month
- Serious trust posture for the price: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2013 alignment, TLS 1.3, AES-256, a published DPA and named sub-processors
- Written commitment that customer data is never used to train AI models, including data from third-party APIs
Cons
- Billing counts active seats, not actual usage: a member added to the organisation is charged even if they never open Dailybot, and an admin must deactivate them manually
- API access, the CLI, the agent skill pack and AI workflows are all locked behind the top Advanced plan
- History is capped at 14 days on the free plan and six months on Essentials
- Only one workspace per organisation below Advanced
- The SOC 2 Type II report is shared only with Enterprise customers under NDA, so the certification is claimed but the evidence is not public
- Data is hosted exclusively in the United States, with no EU residency option and no Article 27 representative
- No native mobile app, no public Enterprise pricing, and no email address published in plain text on any page
Pricing & Plans
Dailybot offers a permanent free plan, named Starter, which requires no credit card and carries unlimited members. The lowest paid entry point is the Essentials plan at 2.40 USD per active user per month; the Advanced plan is charged at 5 USD per active user per month, and Enterprise pricing is available on request only. Discounts are applied to annual billing, and a free trial is offered on both paid tiers. Billing is based on active seats rather than measured usage, and the billing manager's own seat is always free of charge.
- Starter — free — one workspace per organisation
- unlimited members
- daily standup features
- free Kudos product
- 14 days of history and exports
- Essentials — 2.40 USD per active user per month — one workspace per organisation
- unlimited members
- the full check-in toolset
- integrations
- custom questions
- AI summaries
- participation metrics and six months of history
- Advanced — 5 USD per active user per month — multiple workspaces per organisation
- unlimited members
- Dailybot CLI and agent skill pack
- public API
- AI workflows
- agent analytics
- advanced security controls and unlimited history
- Enterprise — custom pricing — everything in Advanced plus SLA agreements
- priority support
- data protection agreements
- access to the SOC 2 Type II report under NDA
- white-glove onboarding
- dedicated API integration support and flexible billing
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Dailybot handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR implementation is concrete and documented rather than merely claimed. The security page states that Dailybot is fully GDPR compliant and that affected customers are notified within 72 hours of a confirmed incident. A Data Processing Addendum is published in full, incorporating the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (Module Two, controller to processor) and, by reference, the equivalent UK GDPR clauses. Annex 3 names seven sub-processors with their purpose and country. As a US company storing data in the United States, Dailybot relies on those clauses for EEA transfers. Data-subject rights are exercised through a request form at help.dailybot.com rather than a dedicated mailbox. One gap is worth naming: no Article 27 EU representative is designated anywhere on the site.
Who owns the data?
Customer data belongs to the customer. The security page states plainly that every organisation owns its data and controls who may access it, and Dailybot acts as processor or sub-processor on the customer's behalf. Administrators can retrieve their data through the web application, export history according to their plan, and request permanent account deletion by writing to support@dailybot.com once a subscription ends. Dailybot commits in its privacy policy that it does not sell, rent or trade personal information. It may nevertheless share data with payment processors, support vendors and the seven named sub-processors listed in Annex 3 of its Data Processing Addendum, each bound by confidentiality and data-protection terms.
Reuse rights
End users do not need permission to reuse their own content: the material submitted through check-ins, forms and reports remains the customer's, and an administrator can pull it out of the web application at any time or request instructions from support. Export depth is a paid feature rather than a right, though: history and exports run to 14 days on the free Starter plan, six months on Essentials and are unlimited on Advanced. On Dailybot's side, use is bounded by the contract. Personal data is processed only to deliver the service, support it, bill it and improve it, plus marketing and automated risk or fraud screening. AI features are optional and user-initiated; when triggered, inputs may transit to third-party AI providers purely to answer the request, and Dailybot states that no user data is used to train generalised models.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
All of Dailybot's infrastructure — servers, databases and services — runs on Amazon Web Services in the United States, in data centres certified to ISO 27001, SOC 1, SOC 2 and PCI-DSS. Connections are encrypted with TLS 1.3 and customer data is stored in AES-256 encrypted containers spread across several physical locations. Production databases replicate to at least one secondary instance, backups are automated and encrypted, and redundant servers provide instant failover under a documented disaster recovery programme. Dailybot itself is SOC 2 Type II compliant and runs a security programme aligned with ISO 27001:2013. The jurisdictional consequence is straightforward: DailyBot, Inc. is a US company, personal data collected from European users is transferred to the United States, and those transfers rely on the Standard Contractual Clauses set out in the published Data Processing Addendum. No European data residency option is offered anywhere on the site.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Dailybot.
- Active-seat billing quietly rewards inattention: every member added to the organisation is charged from day one whether or not they ever use the product, and only a manual deactivation stops the meter
- Constant visibility can slide into surveillance. Participation rates, blocker counts and leaderboards make individual performance legible to managers, and a team that feels watched will start writing updates for the audience rather than for the record
- Automated summaries invite trust without verification. When an AI report says a sprint is healthy, few readers reopen the underlying answers, and a nuance lost in summarisation becomes a decision made on an incomplete picture
- Replacing conversation with compiled text removes the moment where someone says out loud that they are struggling. Blocker detection catches what is written down, never what a colleague hesitated to write
- AI features send user-generated input to third-party providers, with OpenAI named as a sub-processor. The commitment is that no personally identifiable information is shared, but the flow itself leaves the vendor's own infrastructure
- Data lives exclusively in the United States under Standard Contractual Clauses, with no EU residency option and no Article 27 representative, which may not satisfy every European compliance review
- The privacy policy discloses automated decision-making for risk and fraud screening, and anonymous browsing data is retained indefinitely
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low for everyday users. Adding the bot to a chat workspace, picking a team, a set of questions and a schedule requires no code, and sign-in uses the platform's existing SSO rather than a new password. A free plan starts without a credit card. Technical work only appears on the agent side, where an API key must be generated to drive the REST API, the CLI or the skill pack — one credential covers all three, and automation recipes ship with copy-paste examples. An Academy, help centre, templates and developer documentation back the whole setup.
Deployment
Integrations
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Resources
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Alternatives
Tools that compete with or complement Dailybot.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly is Dailybot?
How does Dailybot use AI?
What does it cost, and is there a free plan?
What counts as an active user for billing?
Can my AI agents use Dailybot on my behalf?
Is my data used to train AI models?
Where is the data hosted and how is it protected?
Which certifications and legal documents are available?
Which tools does it connect to, and is there a mobile app?
Should you pick Dailybot?
Dailybot occupies an unusually specific position. Plenty of tools automate a standup; very few of them treat the AI agents now running in the same stack as team members who owe the group a report. By funnelling humans in chat and agents through a CLI, an API and a skill pack into one compiled report, Dailybot addresses a visibility gap that most competitors have not yet acknowledged, and it does so without asking anyone to open another application.
The trust foundations are stronger than the price suggests. SOC 2 Type II certification, ISO 27001:2013 alignment, a fully published Data Processing Addendum with Standard Contractual Clauses and seven named sub-processors, and an explicit written commitment never to train models on customer data are not what one usually finds behind a 2.40 USD entry point. Coverage of all four major chat platforms is equally rare.
The reservations are practical rather than fundamental. Billing counts active seats rather than real usage, so an inattentive administrator pays for people who never log in. Everything that makes the agent story compelling — the API, the CLI, the skill pack and AI workflows — sits on the Advanced tier. Hosting is United States only, with no EU residency option and no Article 27 representative, which will matter to some European buyers. And the SOC 2 report itself is only released under NDA.
For a team already living in Slack, Teams, Google Chat or Discord, wanting to retire its status meetings and starting to lose track of what its agents are doing, Dailybot is a well-priced and credible option. Teams needing live meeting capture, OKR tracking or European data residency should look elsewhere.
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