Team Aident
Announcing Aiden v0.0.2: Minimize Work-about-work with AI
Editor’s note (July 2026): This article preserves the Aiden v0.0.2 launch announcement. Features and onboarding links may have changed; see Aident for the current product.
Background
‘Work-about-work’ refers to all those pesky tasks that surround actual work, like unnecessary meetings, endless status updates, and hunting down information. These activities suck up our time, break our focus, and lead to burnout. According to Asana’s research, a whopping 60% of our work time is spent on ‘work-about-work’ instead of real work. Crazy, right?
The Problem
Standup meetings are a prime example of ‘work-about-work’. We’ve identified four main issues:
Coordination Chaos: Syncing meeting times across distributed teams, especially with different time zones, is a nightmare.
Inefficiency: Standup meetings often involve listening to updates that aren’t relevant to everyone, leading to wasted time.
Underutilized Insights: Valuable insights shared during meetings often fade away without proper follow-ups.
Tool Overload: Juggling multiple tools makes it hard to keep track of everything accurately.
Plus, treating standup meetings and task management as separate activities just adds to the chaos, e.g. more ‘work-about-work’!
Aiden’s Solution
Aiden was built to automate and streamline standup meetings, integrate with the tools a team already uses, and provide AI-assisted task management. In our internal test, meeting time fell by 60%; that result reflects one team rather than a general benchmark. Here’s how Aiden worked:
🚀 Async Standup Meetings
Timezone-Based Groups: Perfect for globally distributed teams, creating standup groups based on timezones ensures a smoother experience.
AI-Powered Note Drafting: Aiden drafts standup notes based on your progress, pulling info from tools like GitHub (with JIRA, Notion, Google Docs, and Email support coming soon).
Clear Summaries: Get concise, to-the-point team standup notes.
Sentiment Analysis: Keep a pulse on daily employee sentiment.
📋 Task Management
**Automated Task Creation: **Aiden turns standup notes into tasks automatically.
**Automated Task Tracking: **Tasks are marked as complete based on your updates, making task management a breeze.
**Intuitive User Interface: **A user-friendly interface that makes managing tasks super easy.
🤖 Agentic Workflows
Tool Integration with AI Agent: With GitHub access, Aiden can visit GitHub pages, understand your team’s activities, and distill valuable insights.
Interactive AI Chat: Aiden can quickly answer work-related questions in direct messages and group chats.
Upcoming Features: Look out for long-term memory to retain organizational knowledge and fine-grained access control.
Join Us
Visit Aident to explore the current product and see how the original standup-bot idea evolved.
We’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback! You can reach us directly via Discord and Email.
