Meet Tessa — your AI Chief of Staff

Stop chasing updates. Tessa reaches out to everyone on your team, finds what’s stuck, and gets it moving.

On your cadence, Tessa calls, WhatsApps, Slacks, or emails each person — in English, Spanish, or French — carries what you need them to hear, asks what you need to know, and remembers every conversation. You read one report: trends, blockers, and who can unblock whom.

Start your first check-in — free
Free to start · 200 minutes a month · Your team never pays, never signs up

For your team it’s a voice, not a survey — anyone can say SKIP, and what they raise reaches the person who can fix it.

Hear it work
Tessa asks — Weekly Sales Check-in0:07

“What’s the one deal you’re most worried about this week?”

A member answers0:11

“Honestly, the Meridian renewal — their champion just left…”

Your Monday digest0:09

“2 blockers surfaced. Maria needs sign-off by Thursday.”

Real product audio · no mic needed

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2 min
to set up
From template to scheduled routine
5–10 min
per check-in
On each person's own time — not yours
6
channels to reach them
Calls, texts, WhatsApp, email, Slack, web calls — and she books follow-ups straight into calendars.
$0
per invited member
You're never charged for someone Tessa calls
How it works

Three steps. Then it runs itself.

You set it up once. Tessa handles every check-in after that.

1
Pick

Pick a template

Start from a proven check-in — sales, standups, pulse, field crews. Every question is yours to edit.

  • 5 templates written by people who run these meetings
  • Edit, add, reorder questions
  • Set the cadence — daily, weekly, your call
Pick a template
Weekly Sales Check-in
4 questions · ~10 min · phone
Fridays at 4 PM
Team Standup
3 questions · ~5 min · room
Maintenance Crew Check-in
4 questions · ~5 min · phone
Try it — no account needed →
2
Invite

Invite your team

Add names, emails, or phone numbers. Members never need an account or an app — Tessa texts a heads-up before her first call.

  • Members are free, always
  • Instant membership — no invite-accept dance
  • Anyone can say SKIP; Tessa respects it
Invite your team
Members are free
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JJames Chen
++1 (415) 555-01
3
Digest

Tessa calls. You read the digest.

On schedule, Tessa reaches each person on their best channel, asks your questions, listens, and reports back.

  • Full transcripts + the 30-second summary
  • Trends across weeks
  • Reply to the digest to steer next week's questions
Your Monday digest
↑ 38% response rate
2 blockers surfaced. Maria needs sign-off by Thursday.
Meridian renewal at risk — their champion just left
Pricing approval is holding up two deals
Reply to steer next week's questions
Two directions, one conversation

Strategy goes out. Truth comes back.

For you

Attach your message to any routine — a priority, a change, a why — and Tessa carries it into every conversation, consistently, in each person’s language. The report tells you what landed and what’s in the way.

For your team

A real conversation on their own channel, on their own time — never a form, never a score. What they raise goes to the person who can fix it, and Tessa remembers, so nobody explains twice. Anyone can say SKIP.

Reports are aggregate-first. Tessa never scores individuals — she surfaces themes, blockers, and trends.

She acts on what she hears

From heard to unblocked — the same day.

Blockers wait for status meetings. Tessa doesn’t. When something’s stuck, it doesn’t go into a report — it goes to the person who can fix it.

9:04 AM
Ana · on her check-in call
“Honestly, staging has been down since Tuesday — I can’t ship the release until someone resets it.”
9:06 AM
Tessa → supervisor
Blocker flagged on Weekly Standup: staging environment down (high) — blocking the release. Ana raised it.
9:15 AM
Tessa → Luis · platform lead
“Ana’s blocked on staging — you own that box. Can I tell her it’s on your list for this morning?”
6:00 PM
Your evening report
Resolved: staging reset at 11:20 — release unblocked. 1 of 2 blockers closed the same day.

Strategy is a list of things nobody followed up on. Tessa follows up.

Meet Tessa

She’s a team member, not a form.

Tessa has her own phone number and her own inbox. Your team can call her back, text her, WhatsApp her, email her, or DM her on Slack — in English, Spanish, or French — and she remembers every conversation, so the tenth check-in feels like the tenth, not the first.

Example
Tessa
Check-ins · your company
+1 (415) 555-0134
yourteam@inbound.apprendo.co
Phone callSMSWhatsAppEmailSlackWeb callCalendar

Tessa gets her own North American number the moment your workspace needs one — automatically, nothing to configure. On a paid plan, add a second number and pick its country. Need local presence elsewhere?

Talk to sales
Standards & SOPs

Your standards, spoken — every conversation, every shift, in their own language.

The SOP nobody reads becomes a conversation everyone has. Tessa carries your procedures into the field at the moment of work — in English, Spanish, or French — and hears back where they don’t hold up.

On the call · Spanish

“Antes de cerrar el turno — ¿completaste la lista de seguridad de la grúa? Es la nueva, la de tres puntos.”

The new 3-point safety checklist, delivered inside the check-in — not in a binder.

What comes back

“The checklist asks for a spotter — we only have one on site after 3 PM.”

The standard meets reality — and the gap reaches the person who owns the standard.

In your report

Safety checklist: 11 of 12 crews confirmed. One staffing gap after 3 PM — flagged to operations.

Compliance you can see — aggregate-first, never a score on a person.

Everyone means everyone

She reaches the people who will never open a dashboard.

Most of the workforce doesn’t sit at a desk. Tessa picks the channel per person — voice-first, with WhatsApp, Slack, and email fallback — so “the whole company” isn’t a figure of speech.

S

Sofia

Engineer · SF

Slack
M

Miguel

Crew lead · Monterrey

WhatsApp · ES
D

Dana

Driver · Dallas

Phone call
A

Amélie

Support · Lyon

Phone call · FR
J

James

Sales · NYC

Email

The engineer gets Slack. The driver gets a call. The crew lead gets WhatsApp — in Spanish. You get one report.

After the call

The call ends. The value doesn’t.

Every check-in becomes searchable knowledge — and Tessa notices who should be talking to whom.

The digest

Owners get the summary: blockers, commitments, trends — without holding a single meeting.

The feed

Everyone finds what they need: answers, decisions, and who said what, searchable across every check-in.

Every check-in is already content.

Tessa records the call. The studio turns it into moments, captions, and clips your team actually shares.

The connector

“This would help George — you two should connect. He’s dealing with the same problem.”

Tessa proposes the intro, both people say yes, and she books it into both calendars.

Tessa books follow-ups straight into both calendars — nobody chases a time.

Works with your AI

Ask your check-ins anything — from Claude or ChatGPT.

Connect Apprendo to the AI assistant your team already uses. It can search your recordings, transcripts, routines and insights — and only ever sees what you can see.

  • Works with Claude, ChatGPT & any MCP-enabled assistant
  • Read-only — your assistant can search, never change anything
  • Follows your own Apprendo permissions, workspace by workspace
  • Included with the Team plan and higher — builders connect once in Settings
Connect your AISee Team pricing
In your AI assistant

What’s blocking the team this week?

Three blockers from Tuesday’s check-in: the Meridian renewal needs sign-off by Thursday (Maria), the new hire is still waiting on staging access, and the Q3 pricing deck review slipped.

Source: Weekly Sales Check-in

Start from a real template

Five check-ins you could run this week

Every question editable. Every cadence yours.

4 questions · ~10 min · phone

Weekly Sales Check-in

Pipeline, blockers, commitments — from every rep, without the forecast meeting.

Use this template
3 questions · ~5 min · room

Team Standup

Yesterday, today, blockers. Skip the 9:15.

Use this template
4 questions · ~5 min · Slack / email

Dev Team Standup

Async standup for engineers who hate synchronous standups.

Use this template
4 questions · ~7 min · email / Slack

Employee Satisfaction Pulse

How people are really doing — with trends you can act on.

Use this template
4 questions · ~5 min · phone

Maintenance Crew Check-in

Built for the field: no laptop, no app. Tessa just calls.

Use this template
Built for how your team works

Different teams, same platform

Forecast without the forecast meeting.

Tessa phones each rep on your cadence, asks about pipeline, blockers, and commitments, and sends you one digest before your week starts.

  • 4 questions · ~10 minutes per rep
  • Phone-first — reps answer from the road, no laptop
  • Blockers and commitments in one digest
  • Reply to the digest to steer next week's questions
Start a sales check-in
How it runs

Friday 4pm: Tessa calls each rep for about ten minutes — pipeline movement, stuck deals, commitments for next week. Monday 9am: you read one digest instead of running a forecast meeting.

What comes back

Leaders don’t switch for the calls. They switch for what they finally hear.

Your Monday digest

2 blockers surfaced. Maria needs sign-off by Thursday.

Blockers routed to whoever can fix them — the same day

Real conversations in English, Spanish, and French

Reports are aggregate-first — no individual scoring, ever

Simple pricing

One seat for the builder. Everyone Tessa talks to is free.

The $99 Builder seat is for the people who deploy strategy — founders, executives, and the leads who design Tessa's routines and behaviors. Each seat pools 100 minutes of Tessa's talk time, then it's 15¢ a minute; supervisors who read the results and everyone Tessa checks in on are free.

Free
$0

forever

  • 200 Tessa-minutes every month
  • Phone calls unlock when you verify your phone and add a card ($0 — never charged automatically); web check-ins from day one, card-free
  • 1 builder
  • Unlimited free members
  • All templates, all channels
Create your first routine — free
Popular
Team
$99

per Builder seat / month · $990 billed annually (2 months free)

  • The operator seat: for founders, executives, and the leads who deploy routines & behaviors
  • Run reports after every round — trends, sentiment, blockers, and who can unblock whom
  • 100 pooled minutes per seat, then top up at 15¢ a minute — packs never expire
  • Billed per second — no-answer calls cost nothing
  • Full studio on every recorded call — included
  • Free Insights access for supervisors — they read, they don't burn the pool
  • Ask your data anything from Claude or ChatGPT — read-only MCP connector for builders
  • Builders are owners & admins only; members are always free
  • Per-routine minute budgets
Start with Team
Company
Bundles

platform + shared minute pool, shaped to your org

  • One bundle, not a seat grid: Builder seats + a pooled minute line + rollout support
  • Org-wide routines — every employee, on their channel, in their language
  • Compliance pack in writing: aggregate-first reporting, no individual scoring, DPA
  • Start with a pilot on one team or division
  • Local numbers per country · SSO · SLA — arranged together
Design your bundle
A minute is a minute — no credits, no tokens; see the rate and where every minute went
Pay for minutes, not for people — inviting someone never costs a seat
You control the pool — budget minutes across routines
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One platform, more ways to talk

Check-ins are one way to talk. Booking pages and guided conversations are the others — and the studio turns every recording into content.

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Booking pages

One link for booking, video calls, and AI-powered highlights from every conversation.

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  • HD video + auto-recording
  • AI-extracted moments from every session
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Conversation guides

Expert conversation guides who know how to draw out stories your audience will love. Real humans, real connection.

  • Expert interviewers, not generic hosts
  • Studio-quality recording
  • Same AI moment detection + content
Browse Guides →
Included with Team

The Studio

The call is already recorded. The studio is what happens to the recording — moments, captions, clips, and posts.

  • Every call check-in recorded automatically
  • AI moments, captions, clips
  • Publish-ready posts from real conversations
See the studio →
The road ahead

Tessa is learning to notice.

Today she keeps the rhythm. Soon — always with each person’s permission — she won’t wait for the scheduled round.

Soon

She sees the reorg land on your calendar

— and checks in with the team that afternoon, while reactions are still fresh enough to act on.

Soon

She notices a project thread go quiet

— and asks the owner what happened, before the silence becomes a slipped quarter.

Always

Each person decides what she sees

Noticing is opt-in, per person, serving them first — it’s their assistant paying attention, never their employer watching.

Your first check-in can run this week.

Pick a template, add your people, and Tessa takes it from there. Free to start.

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