COUNSEL · TEAMS · FOR PEOPLE LEADERS

Walk into every 1:1 with a verdict, not a blank page.

Counsel · Teams is the manager-blind pulse instrument built on Counsel.day. Each evening your reports rate their day in 10 seconds. Managers cannot read raw daily data. On the first Monday of every month, you walk into your 1:1 with a synthesised verdict · themes, conviction trajectory, one specific question to open the conversation.

Manager-blind by default Rule-of-5 aggregation OIDC SSO at launch NZ / AU / EU / UK / US

The opposite of every engagement tool.

Lattice, 15Five, Officevibe and Culture Amp give your managers dashboards. Their employees know this, and the response rate dies inside six months. The thing People Ops actually wants · honest signal · is the first thing their tooling kills.

Counsel · Teams inverts the posture. The manager never reads a raw vote. They get one synthesised verdict per month, in the editorial voice, naming the themes that recurred and the one specific question worth raising in the next 1:1. The employee is told this in plain English the moment they sign in.

It is not engagement software. It is a sealed coaching instrument that happens to also produce the report HR wants · aggregated, threshold-protected, never per-person.

  • Reports rate their day 1-4 each evening + an optional 30-second voice note
  • Voice notes transcribe via Whisper (no-training tier)
  • The seal is enforced at the database layer · not at the UI
  • Managers receive a monthly verdict + a "carry forward" list of topics still open from prior verdicts
  • People Ops dashboard respects a Rule-of-5 floor · never less than 5 reports rolled up
  • Investigation Mode (dual-control, audit-logged, user-notified) preserves the privacy posture without breaking HR's ability to investigate
EARLY-ACCESS WAITLIST

Tell us about your team.

Where Counsel · Teams is different.

EVERY OTHER PULSE TOOL

Managers see raw responses.

  • "Anonymous" surveys that aren't (linked to accounts in the DB)
  • Per-person engagement scores managers can drill into
  • Habit metrics, streaks, gamification
  • HR pitched as "team mood at a glance"
  • Employees stop responding honestly within 6 months
COUNSEL · TEAMS

Managers see verdicts only.

  • The seal is enforced at the database, not the UI
  • Monthly synthesised verdict · themes + trajectory + one question
  • No streaks. No scores. No leaderboards.
  • People Ops dashboard respects a Rule-of-5 floor
  • Dual-control Investigation Mode for genuine harassment / performance cases · audit-logged + user-notified

What's coming in the MVP.

Counsel · Teams sits on top of the same sealed-vote engine that powers Counsel.day for households · the mechanic is proven on the consumer side first. Early-access pilots launch when the waitlist clears 10 qualified signups.

Roadmap (in order):

  • Workspace · multi-seat billing · invite reports by email or domain
  • Google Workspace + Microsoft Entra OIDC SSO (no SSO tax)
  • Slack notifications (evening prompt + monthly verdict)
  • Manager 1:1 prep view · synthesised monthly verdict + carry-forward topics
  • People Ops dashboard · Rule-of-5 aggregate, exportable PDF
  • Ranked-options vote format for development conversations
  • Trust page · subprocessors, data residency, DPA on request
  • SOC 2 Type I in progress · Type II second half of year
Walk into every 1:1 with a verdict, not a blank page.