Run your company from one morning brief

Squad sends you one brief each morning — in your own Telegram chat or by email — and keeps everything that needs you in a single “Waiting on you” list. Each decision is written in plain business words with one button, so you can approve, ask or reject without opening five dashboards.

What’s in the brief?

The brief answers four questions, in this order:

• Did the numbers move? Your measured outcomes, read from your connected systems, against their targets.
• What did the team do? Work completed since yesterday, each item backed by a receipt from the system that accepted it. Anything without a receipt is marked “needs your check”.
• What is waiting on you? The decisions only you can make.
• What stopped, and why? Initiatives that were parked or hit an honest stop — what was tried, what’s missing, and the next step.

There are no activity counts for their own sake. If nothing important changed, the brief is short.

What do you need before you start?

• Telegram, if you want the brief in your own Telegram chat. Email works without any connector.
• Google Workspace, so the team can work from your calendar and documents.
• Slack, if that’s where your team talks. Like every connector, it is read-only by default.
• At least one measured outcome, so the brief has a real number to lead with.

How does it work, step by step?

1. Choose the channel. Connect Telegram, or pick email for the brief and for notifications.
2. Set a measured outcome. One number from a connected system, a target and a window of 30 to 90 days.
3. Read the brief, then open “Waiting on you” on your Home screen.
4. Decide each card. Press the action button to approve, press “Ask Squad” if you want the reasoning first, or “Reject with a note” to send it back with your comments.
5. Look back when you need to. Every decision is kept in a decision history in Settings.
6. Delegate more when you’re ready. On the Growth plan and above, turn on acting within your policies.

What does a decision card look like?

One decision, in business words, with one action. For example: “Send the restock reminder to customers who opted in for this product?” with a single button to send it. You don’t get the technical detail unless you ask for it, and you don’t get five questions at once.

Squad keeps the queue short on purpose. Questions the team can answer from your earlier answers or records are not asked again. Only blocking, material questions reach you, and they arrive one decision card at a time.

How do you move from approving everything to delegating?

By default, every outward action — sending, publishing, writing to a system, spending — waits for your approval. That’s the right place to start: you see how the team works before you let it do more.

When the routine work keeps coming back right, the Growth plan and above let you switch on acting within your policies. The team then acts inside the rules you’ve confirmed without asking each time. Some things don’t change:

• Spending above your budget still waits for you. Spending is $0 until you set a budget.
• Consent is still checked person by person, and unknown consent still means the message is held.
• Every action still needs a receipt, and every claim is still checked against one.

On the Scale plan you can go further and set your own approval rules. Compare plans on the pricing page.

How do you know it’s working?

Look at two things. First, the numbers at the top of the brief: they are read from your systems, so they tell you whether the work is paying off. Second, your decision history: if you find yourself approving the same kind of card without changes week after week, that’s a candidate to move under your policies. If you often reject a kind of card, the note you leave tells the team what to change.

Where it stops

• No decisions made for you by default. Outward actions wait until you approve, or until you’ve turned on acting within your policies.
• No spending above budget, under any setting, without your approval.
• No pile-up of questions. One decision card at a time, and only the ones that matter.
• No padding. The brief reports results and receipts, not a list of busy work.

See how Squad fits your day-to-day work on the operations solution page, or compare what each plan lets the team do on its own.