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Your team shouldn’t lose a day waiting for one answer.

StandIn is a personal knowledge base, built on the work that you already do, that answers your teammates when you’re away, in chat and email.

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20 minutes with a founder, using your team’s real questions.
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Off until 09:00 CET · StandIn on
Today
Jonah Reyes 23:41
Hi Anna, did we agree to waive the setup fee on the Acme renewal? They want to sign before their board meets tomorrow.
23:42
Anna’s StandIn
Yes, if they sign for two years by 30 October. Anna agreed this with finance on Tuesday. A one-year renewal goes back to the standard setup fee, so check the term before you send the contract.
Source
Message Anna de Wit

Answers from the tools you already use

  • Slack
  • Gmail
  • GitHub
  • Jira
  • Notion
  • Google Drive
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Outlook
  • Google Docs
  • Confluence
  • Asana
  • Google Calendar

The company keeps moving
when people step away.

Sales, product, finance and people teams stop waiting on each other’s calendars, whether someone is in back-to-back meetings, on holiday or asleep in another time zone.

  • Fewer meetings just to get updates

    Ask what moved and what’s stuck, and get it from the person who did the work.

  • Decisions stay decided

    Every answer points to where something was agreed, with a date and an owner.

  • Senior people stay on senior work

    Your most-asked people get their focus back, and the questions still get answered.

Northstar Group · right nowExample view
Amsterdam15:10Away · StandIns on
Singapore21:10Off · StandIns on
New York09:10Working
Questions moving between teams
Sales, New YorkFinance StandIn, AmsterdamAnswered
Support, New YorkPeople StandIn, AmsterdamAnswered
Marketing, New YorkProduct StandIn, SingaporeAnswered
Partner, by emailSales StandIn, AmsterdamFlagged

What waiting
costs your team.

Every question that waits on one person holds up everyone behind it, whether they sit two desks away or in another office.
Put in three numbers you can estimate:

25%of the working week goes to searching for information and answers
Atlassian, State of Teams 2025
People on your teamEveryone who asks or answers questions25
Average yearly salaryA rough figure is fine€60,000
Hours a week back, per personStart with one1 hour
€37,500a year in time given back to your team
At stake: €375,000 a year in salary goes to looking for answers. Your pilot measures how much of it comes back.

Email me this estimate

We will email you these numbers once. A founder may follow up one time. No newsletter. Privacy policy

No new habit to enforce.
StandIn drafts, people confirm.

Your brief for ThursdayDrafted from 11 items
Sent the Acme renewal proposal
Agreed launch date with marketing
Updated the discount guidelines
Waiting on legal review of the vendor contract
4 items · 4 sources · 1:18Approve and publish

AI that knows its place.

Enterprise search finds documents. Agents act for you. StandIn answers for the person who knows, then steps aside.

Ask all three the same question:
Jonah, sales: “Did we agree to waive the setup fee on the Acme renewal?”
Enterprise search
Finds documents
14 results for “Acme setup fee”Acme MSA 2024.pdfPricing 2026 (draft)#deal-desk, 212 messages
Fourteen places to look, and the decision isn’t written in any of them.
AI agent
Acts for you
Agent · doneDone. I emailed Acme to confirm the setup fee is waived.
Confident, fast, and it missed the two-year condition. Now a customer has it in writing.
StandIn
Answers proactively, for the person who knows
Anna’s StandInYes, if they sign for two years by 30 October. Anna agreed this with finance on Tuesday.Anna’s brief · Tuesday
Right, because Anna wrote the decision into her brief. Search had nowhere to find it.
Where it looksSearch: Every file it can indexAgent: Whatever it can reachStandIn: Work each person has shared or published
When it doesn’t knowSearch: Returns something closeAgent: GuessesStandIn: Says so and flags the owner
Who gets creditSearch: NobodyAgent: NobodyStandIn: The person who did the work
Where decisions liveSearch: Only if someone wrote a documentAgent: Wherever it guessesStandIn: In each person’s brief, in their words
Access it needsSearch: Read accessAgent: Write access to your toolsStandIn: Read-only
Where it looksEvery file it can indexWhatever it can reachWork each person has shared or published
When it doesn’t knowReturns something closeGuessesSays so and flags the owner
Who gets creditNobodyNobodyThe person who did the work
Where decisions liveOnly if someone wrote a documentWherever it guessesIn each person’s brief, in their words
Access it needsRead accessWrite access to your toolsRead-only

Every team has a bottleneck.
It’s usually a person.

Sales · deals don’t stall

Pricing answers,
without the pricing lead

Jo, Account executive Can I offer 15% off for a two-year contract?
Anna’s StandIn Up to 10% for two years is pre-approved. Anything above that needs Anna’s sign-off, so I’ve flagged it for her.
Sales Ops Guidelines · Discounts
Product · launches keep their date

Rollout dates,
straight from the PM

Ken, Marketing When does the new billing page go live?
Priya’s StandIn Beta customers on the 14th, everyone on the 28th if the beta holds.
Priya’s brief · Tuesday
Founders · fewer pings to the top

The founder stops being the help desk

Lena, Support Can I carry unused holiday into next year?
Maya’s StandIn Up to five days, used by the end of March.
Employee Handbook · Leave
The guarantee

It reads. It never writes.

No sending, no editing, no actions. That’s what makes it safe to leave on overnight.

$ standin policy --show
permissions: read-only
actions: none
writes_to_tools: false
answers_from: approved briefs + connected tools
unknown_question: flag owner
label: “On [name]’s behalf”

Log off without
leaving anyone stuck.

You stop being the person everyone waits on. Your StandIn covers the questions about your work, and you come back to a short summary instead of a pile of pings.

  • Your evenings back

    No more checking your phone at dinner in case someone is blocked.

  • Your work, credited

    Every answer carries your name and points to the work you did.

  • Your call, always

    You choose what your StandIn can see and speak about, and you can pause it anytime.

Sarah’s Tuesday evening
Sales lead · Amsterdam
StandIn on
  1. 17:40Brief published. Four items, drafted from her day. Took 1 minute 18.
  2. 18:05Sarah logs off. Her StandIn switches on.
  3. 21:30Jo asks about Acme pricing. Answered from the discount guidelines.
  4. 23:14Singapore asks for the launch date. Answered from Sarah’s brief.
  5. 04:12A client asks about a custom contract. Not in her work, so it’s flagged for her.
  6. 09:00Sarah is back. One summary: 3 answered, 1 for her.

Your company’s memory, locked down.

The questions your security team and works council ask first.

Hosted in the EU, with a data processing agreement available. Anything else, we answer in writing before any data connects.

  • Strictly read-only

    It cannot write to your tools or change anyone’s work.

    ✓ enforced

  • The brief is the boundary

    A StandIn only speaks about what its owner published. Anything else is flagged, never guessed.

  • A named owner for every answer

    Each answer is labeled and sourced, and its owner sees it in the morning summary.

  • Not a monitoring tool

    It answers questions about work. It never scores, ranks or reports on people.

See in detail how StandIn makes your working life easier.

Walk through a full day with a StandIn, from the evening brief to the morning summary, at your own pace.

Or see what changes for
Product tour · step 1 of 4

Connect the tools you already use

Each person picks what their StandIn can read. Access is read-only and follows the permissions they already have.

Example: Sarah connects Gmail, Slack and Notion. Her private drafts stay private.

A pilot that doesn’t
disrupt your company.

StandIn fits into the chat and email your team already uses, with no migration and no training weeks. We start with one team of 6 to 15 people, connect read-only, and measure how many questions stop waiting on someone offline. Pilots are sized so one budget holder can sign.

  • Simple per-seat price, shared on the call
  • Live on your team within 5 days of the call
  • Direct access to the founding team
  • Read-only from day one
Parker, co-founder

StandIn pilot scoping call

20 minutesVideo call

We pick the team, agree on what to measure, and you get the per-seat price before we hang up.

See it on your team’s work

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