FocusUp
The AI teammate for remote & hybrid teams

The AI teammate that turns your team's real work into standups, decisions, and focus — automatically.

Nobody writes a status update again. FocusUp watches the real work on every desktop, drafts each person's standup, flags what a manager should act on, and protects deep work — with one-tap approval, never surveillance.

6-day full trial · No card required · Free forever for 3 seats · macOS & Windows

Slack — Direct messages
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FocusUpapp7:02 AM

Good morning, Mia — here's your standup draft for Thu, Sep 3

Yesterday

  • Shipped the pricing page v3 in Figma (2h 10m)
  • ACME-231 login redirect bug — fix in review (1h 35m)
  • Design sync with Ken (30m)

🎯Today

  • Address review comments on ACME-231
  • Onboarding empty states in Figma

🚧Blockers

  • Waiting on design review for pricing v3

JJira worklog on approve: ACME-231 · 1h 35m

#standup· Daily standup — Thu, Sep 3
K

Ken9:02 AM

  • Yesterday: API rate limiter shipped to staging (ACME-228)
  • Today: load test + PR review for Mia
  • Blockers: none

posted via FocusUp

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Ana9:04 AM

  • Yesterday: Q3 hiring plan draft in Sheets, 2 candidate calls
  • Today: finalize plan, sync with finance
  • Blockers: waiting on headcount approval

posted via FocusUp

What lands in Slack at 7:02 tomorrow — drafted from real work, posted with one tap.

Sound familiar?

  • The standup eats 20 minutes and says nothing.
  • You find out someone was stuck — three days later.
  • The status doc is always stale.
  • Your best people get pinged out of flow all day.
  • You have no idea what actually happened yesterday across 12 people.

By tomorrow morning, every one of these is handled — before you open Slack.

Start free — no card

Live by tomorrow's standup

No dashboards to build, no forms to fill. Three steps, then it runs on its own.

1

Install the desktop app

macOS and Windows. About two minutes per person — sign in with a one-time code, no password to retype.

2

Connect Slack

Add the FocusUp bot to your workspace. Optionally connect Jira Cloud and Google or Microsoft 365 Calendar for tickets and meetings.

3

Tomorrow morning, the standup writes itself

Each person gets a drafted standup to approve. Managers get an inbox of things worth acting on. Everyone gets the focus copilot.

One teammate. Three jobs it never drops.

Every surface below is shipped and running in production — not a roadmap slide.

AI Chief of Staff

Reports itself

Every morning FocusUp drafts each member's standup — Yesterday / Today / Blockers — from what they actually worked on: apps, documents, tickets, meetings.

  • DM'd in Slack. One tap posts it to the team channel.
  • Jira worklogs written back automatically — no more time-entry chores.
  • Sees the work standup bots miss: design, spreadsheets, research, calls.
Slack — Direct messages
F

FocusUpapp7:02 AM

Good morning, Mia — here's your standup draft for Thu, Sep 3

Yesterday

  • Shipped the pricing page v3 in Figma (2h 10m)
  • ACME-231 login redirect bug — fix in review (1h 35m)
  • Design sync with Ken (30m)

🎯Today

  • Address review comments on ACME-231
  • Onboarding empty states in Figma

🚧Blockers

  • Waiting on design review for pricing v3

JJira worklog on approve: ACME-231 · 1h 35m

FocusUp — Work graph

Reconstructed work · Mia · yesterday

  • not in JiraPricing page v3

    2h 10m

    evidence: Figma · Chrome (figma.com)

  • ACME-231Login redirect loop after SSO

    1h 35m

    evidence: VS Code · Chrome (acme.atlassian.net) · GitHub PR #482

  • not in JiraQ3 hiring plan

    45m

    evidence: Google Sheets · Notion

  • not in JiraDesign sync with Ken

    30m

    evidence: Google Meet · Calendar

Nothing typed by Mia. Reconstructed from app, document, ticket and calendar activity.

Autonomous ops manager

Manages itself

Deterministic detectors watch for overload, stalled work, fragmented days, someone gone quiet, deadline risk and meeting overload — then draft a caring check-in in your voice.

  • Overload: three days over 9h. Stalled: 2h on one screen with no input.
  • Proposals land in your inbox — Slack DM and web. Nothing reaches a teammate until you approve.
  • A weekly 1:1 brief for every direct report, ready on Monday morning.
FocusUp — Manager inbox

Inbox · 4 to review

Needs your OK

🔥 Overload — Ana tracked 9h+ on each of the last 3 days

Mon 9h 24m · Tue 9h 41m · Wed 10h 05m. Two sessions ended after 22:00. Burnout risk 72 (was 41 last week).

Proposed DM, in your voice

Hey Ana — noticed the last few days ran long. Anything I can take off your plate this week? Happy to move Friday's review if that helps.

Nothing reaches Ana until you press Send.

  • ⏸ Stalled — Leo, 2h on one Xcode screen with no input
  • 📅 Deadline risk — Website relaunch, 62% of budget used, 3 days left
  • 📝 Monday 1:1 brief — Ken (ready)
Live focus copilot

Protects focus

The desktop app learns each person's golden hours from 28 days of activity and defends them in real time.

  • A morning plan, then nudges during context-switching storms, chat spirals, two hours without a break, and after-hours work.
  • One click starts a Focus Block: calendar event + Slack Do Not Disturb + status.
  • Team Focus Health shows deep-work blocks, switches per hour and interruption sources — aggregates only.
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FocusUp

now

Focus copilot

12+ app switches in the last 10 minutes. Lock in for 45 minutes?

Focus Block running44:59 Calendar Slack DND Status set

Team Focus Health · this week

  • Deep work48%
  • Meetings27%
  • Chat15%
  • Other10%

Switches / hour

6.2

↓ 18% vs last week

Top interruption source

Slack DMs · 41%

Team aggregates only — no per-person view.

6-day full trial · No card required · Free forever for 3 seats · macOS & Windows

Sees the work that never gets logged

Standup bots only see tickets and commits. Monitoring tools see everything and trust no one. FocusUp does the job a good teammate would.

FocusUpSlack / Jira standup botsLegacy monitoring
Writes the standup from real workYesPartialNo
Sees work outside Jira / GitHubYesNoPartial
Proposes manager actions — with approvalYesNoNo
Protects focus with DND + calendarYesNoNo
Members see 100% of their own dataYesYesPartial
No screenshots by defaultYesYesNo

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Works where your team already works

Connect once from Settings. Every integration is optional — the desktop app alone is enough to start.

  • Slack

    Bot DMs, one-tap channel posts, Do Not Disturb

  • Jira Cloud

    Reads assigned issues, writes worklogs back

  • Google Calendar

    Meetings in, Focus Blocks out

  • Microsoft 365 Calendar

    Outlook meetings in, Focus Blocks out

  • Desktop app

    macOS and Windows

Built like a teammate, not a camera

Transparency is a product spec, not a policy page.

Screenshots can be disabled or blurred org-wide. URL capture can be limited to domains. Retention is configurable. Members see everything collected about them.

Read our security & privacy commitments
  • No stealth mode — members always know when tracking runs

  • Data parity — members see 100% of their own data

  • Consent recorded before the first minute is tracked

  • EU compliance mode: screenshots off, domain-only URLs, no window titles, 90-day retention

  • Screenshots off by default for every new workspace — opt in, never opt out

Running in production today

2,094+

Hours of work measured

1,401+

AI reports delivered

Live production numbers — updated hourly

Priced like software, not like headcount

Free forever for 3 seats. Every workspace starts with a 6-day full trial — no card required.

Free

$0up to 3 seats

Desktop app, personal work history and the focus copilot for up to 3 seats.

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$4.90per seat / month

Projects & clients, team hierarchy, screenshots (opt-in), unlimited seats.

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Questions, answered

Is this surveillance?+

No — and that is a product decision, not a marketing line. There is no stealth mode, members see 100% of the data collected about them, consent is recorded before the first minute is tracked, and screenshots are off by default. Managers get aggregates and proposed actions, not a live feed of anyone's screen.

What does the standup look like?+

A Slack DM from FocusUp every morning with three sections — Yesterday, Today, Blockers — drafted from what you actually worked on: apps, documents, tickets and meetings. You tap Approve & post, Edit, or Skip today. Approved standups go to your team channel and, if connected, log time back to Jira.

What if we don't use Slack?+

Everything is also available on the web: your standup draft, the manager inbox and the focus copilot all work without Slack. Slack adds the DM delivery, one-tap posting and Do Not Disturb sync. Microsoft Teams delivery is on the roadmap.

Does it work without Jira?+

Yes. FocusUp reconstructs work from desktop activity, documents, meetings and calendar — Jira is optional. Connect Jira Cloud and it also reads assigned issues, links them to the work it sees and writes worklogs back automatically.

What about EU / GDPR?+

EU compliance mode is built in and turns on automatically for EU-based signups: screenshots off, domain-only URLs, no window titles, 90-day maximum retention. A DPA and DPIA template are available, and members can export or delete their data at any time.

Do I need a credit card for the trial?+

No. Signup starts a 6-day full trial automatically — no card required. When it ends you keep the Free plan (3 seats) and all your data. Add a card only if you want to keep the AI features running.

Which platforms are supported?+

The desktop app runs on macOS and Windows. Standups arrive in Slack; managers and members use the web app from any browser. Integrations: Slack, Jira Cloud, Google Calendar and Microsoft 365 Calendar. No keystroke logging — only whether input was active.

Which teams is FocusUp not a good fit for?+

We would rather tell you now than after setup. If you want covert monitoring, keystroke logging or insider-threat forensics, FocusUp deliberately does not do that — look at security products instead. If your whole workflow already lives in Jira and GitHub, a ticket-based standup bot may be enough. FocusUp fits teams whose real work happens in design tools, documents, spreadsheets, calls and research — the work that never gets logged.

Tomorrow's standup is already drafted

Install in two minutes, connect Slack, and nobody on your team writes a status update again. Free for 3 seats, full trial for 6 days — no card.

6-day full trial · No card required · Free forever for 3 seats · macOS & Windows