Retro

A retro room runs the whole retrospective ceremony on one live board: the team adds cards in real time, groups and votes on them, walks the top items in presentation mode, and leaves with an AI-written summary and an exportable action list. The retro ends with a list, not a shrug.

Create a retro room

Click + in your space's sidebar and choose the retro room type. Set visibility when you create it — everyone in the space, or just the team whose retro it is.

Pick a format

Twelve formats structure the board's columns: Mad-Sad-Glad, 4Ls, Start-Stop-Continue, health checks, and more. Rotating formats is the easiest way to keep retros from going stale — a different structure asks different questions, and different questions surface different problems. A quarterly health-check format alongside your regular sprint retro also gives you a way to track how the team feels over time.

Collect cards, live

Everyone adds cards during the session — the board is real-time, so remote and hybrid teams contribute simultaneously on the call without pre-work spreadsheets or one person transcribing the meeting.

Cards come in seven flavors: plain cards, GIFs, polls, health checks, drawings, and more. Different flavors draw out different kinds of honesty — a poll gets a straight answer where a blank card gets silence, and a well-placed GIF keeps the session human.

Run the session

Four controls shape how a board behaves during the session:

• A timer. Set it running and everyone sees the same clock, which is what turns "a few more minutes" into a shared fact.
• Anonymous mode, for the whole board. Names come off the cards.
• Masked mode. Cards stay hidden until they are revealed, so nobody anchors on the first thing written.
• Views. A board can hold several saved views of the same cards, for walking the session in different ways.

When the retro is over, close the board. It stops the timer and marks the session done, and it can be reopened if something was missed. The room's overview lists past boards.

Group, vote, discuss

Once the cards are in:

1. Group duplicates and near-duplicates so each theme appears once.
2. Vote to find what the team actually wants to fix, so discussion time goes to the top issues rather than the loudest ones.
3. Present. Walk the top-voted items in presentation mode, which keeps everyone looking at the same card while you discuss it.

Capture the outcome

Two things carry the retro out of the room:

• AI meeting summary. The AI writes up the session, so the discussion is captured without anyone playing stenographer. The summary runs on your organization's AI setup — see the AI assistant for how that's configured.
• Actions to CSV. Export the agreed actions and bring them into your next planning session, so agreements survive contact with the next sprint.

The board itself also remains as the record: grouped, voted cards are a better memory than anyone's notes.

The facilitator's job here is facilitating. Between the live board, the AI summary, and the CSV export, nobody has to take minutes.

Tips

• Timebox card collection, then switch to grouping — boards that stay open too long collect essays instead of cards.
• Vote before discussing. It stops the first card raised from eating the whole session.
• Keep old retro boards; scanning the last three before planning a format change shows you what your current format has stopped surfacing.
• Actually import the CSV into your planning flow. A retro whose actions vanish trains the team to stop raising things.

FAQ

Does it work for remote teams? Yes — the board is real-time, so everyone adds cards, votes, and groups together during the call, and presentation mode keeps the walkthrough synchronized.

How do we keep retros fresh? Rotate among the 12 formats and mix card flavors. Structure is the variable that changes what people say.

Who writes the retro up? The AI summary does, using your org's AI configuration. The board stays as the detailed record.

What happens to action items? They live in action columns on the board. Promote the ones that need tracking onto a Kanban board, where they become real cards; export the rest to CSV.

What is the difference between an action and an agreement? An action is one thing somebody will do after this retro. An agreement is a standing rule the team keeps between retros, and it stays on the board across sessions.

Can people outside the organization join? Yes, if you make the board public. They give a name and can add cards, vote, comment and react.