TryCatchUp watches every message in your project channels and pings you the moment a blocker surfaces. Plus a Friday digest synthesizing the week's accomplishments, decisions, and caught risks — for stakeholders who need the big picture. No standups, no forms.
Free for up to 2 channels. No credit card required.
TryCatchUp
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@james flagged that the auth fix from @marcus broke staging login — hanging on submit.
Owner
@james
Impact
High
Caught
1 min ago
Designed for engineering teams who can't afford to find out about blockers three days late.
From install to first alert in under 5 minutes. Everything happens inside Slack.
Install TryCatchUp to your workspace with one click via Slack OAuth.
Type /invite @TryCatchUp in any project channel. Answer 6 quick setup questions via DM.
The bot starts watching your channel immediately. You'll get a real-time alert the moment a blocker surfaces — plus a structured digest every Friday at 3 PM.
Standup bots ask humans to type updates after the fact. TryCatchUp catches risks the moment they surface — from the conversation that's already happening.
Scheduled pings asking "What are you working on?" every morning.
Developers forced to fill out redundant daily forms.
By the time someone reads and synthesizes the responses, the blocker is already three days old.
Catches blockers, delays, and risks the moment they surface in your channels.
Alerts the project lead in real time — before a Slack thread becomes a missed deadline.
Wraps the week's accomplishments, decisions, and caught risks into a Friday status digest — synthesized from real conversation, not self-reported guesses.
Blocker Alert
"#api-migration · @sarah hit a rate-limiting issue on the auth module · flagged 4 min ago · impact: high"
The moment a teammate says "blocked on X" or flags a delay, the bot catches it and pings the project lead — so a three-day-old thread never becomes a one-week slip. Decisions and resolutions get tracked the same way.
Every Friday, one message wrapping the week's accomplishments, decisions, caught risks, and team sentiment — synthesized from real channel conversations. The status report your stakeholders actually want, written for you.
Directors and VPs get the weekly status digest in their DMs and can ask questions on demand — full project visibility without joining a channel, opening a dashboard, or sitting through a sync.
Each project channel is tracked independently. #proj-alpha and #proj-beta get separate digests, separate alert streams, and separate health status — no cross-contamination, no merged signals.
2 decisions · 0 blockers
1 decision · 1 blocker
Need an answer right now? /catchup ask returns a direct answer grounded in real channel history — with source links.
/catchup ask
Who's working on the search endpoint?
An auto-generated Slack Canvas pinned to your channel — a living log of caught risks, open blockers, decisions, and current status. Updated as the bot catches things.
Not a daily ping. The bot only DMs team members when channel signal goes quiet — with context-aware questions about specific risks, not generic standup prompts.
Find out about the blocker the minute it surfaces — not three days later when the deadline slips. No DMs, no late discovery, no firefighting.
Catch scope creep, decision reversals, and delivery risks the moment they're mentioned in Slack — not in next week's sync, when it's already too late.
See risks across every project the moment they surface — weekly digests for the big picture, on-demand DMs when you need an answer now. Without joining a single channel.
Every Friday, stakeholders get a structured overview of the week — accomplishments, caught blockers and resolutions, key decisions, and team sentiment. Synthesized from real conversation, not self-reported guesses.
Accomplishments and milestones, pulled from PRs and discussions
Caught blockers and decisions, with owners and timestamps
Team sentiment, extracted from conversation tone
Key Accomplishments
Blockers
@james is waiting for API docs on the search endpoint. Owner: @james · Impact: High
Decisions
Team agreed to use React Native Reanimated for transitions (Tues 2:15 PM)
Sentiment
Team is confident — high activity, clear direction.
The cost of catching it late
Illustrative scenario — a common shape of the problem, not a customer case.
Without TryCatchUp
With TryCatchUp
Free gives you the weekly status digest. Pro catches blockers in real time.
The full weekly status digest — accomplishments, decisions, and any blockers, with timestamps showing how long each one sat unnoticed.
Everything in Free, plus real-time alerts the moment a blocker surfaces. 10 channels, full feature set.
Real-time alerts across unlimited channels, with stakeholder DM queries for execs who need answers now.
All plans include weekly digests, project canvas, and risk detection. Real-time alerts are a Pro feature. No credit card required for Free.
Under 5 minutes. Install via Slack OAuth, invite the bot to a channel, and answer 6 quick setup questions via DM. The bot starts watching your channel immediately — alerts fire as soon as a blocker surfaces, and your first weekly digest arrives on Friday.
No. TryCatchUp is 100% Slack-native. Setup, configuration, digests, queries, and billing all happen inside your Slack workspace.
Not at all. The bot reads your existing conversations passively. No daily forms, no structured prompts. Your team won't even notice it's there.
Project-specific channels work best (e.g., #proj-mobile-v2). Avoid general channels like #engineering — the bot needs focused conversation to catch real signals about specific projects.
Typically within minutes of the original Slack message. The bot processes new messages in your channel as they arrive and pings the project lead the moment its detection model flags a blocker, delay, or risk.
Only messages in channels where you've explicitly invited the bot. It cannot browse your workspace, access uninvited channels, or read DMs between team members.
Yes. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest. We run on AWS Lambda with Neon (managed PostgreSQL) using encrypted connections. All API calls are validated via Slack's HMAC-SHA256 signatures.
No. We use enterprise API tiers that explicitly exclude customer data from model training. Your conversations are processed to generate digests, not to train AI models.
Message history depends on your plan: 7 days (Free), 30 days (Pro), or unlimited (Team). Data is used for generating digests and answering queries within your retention window.
Yes, genuinely free forever. 2 channels, weekly digests, no credit card required. No trial that expires. Upgrade only if you need more channels or features.
All billing is handled through Stripe. Upgrade via Slack DM, manage your subscription anytime with /catchup billing. We never see or store your credit card.
Real-time alerts when a blocker surfaces, plus a weekly status digest your stakeholders actually want — synthesized from real conversation, not self-reported guesses. Add TryCatchUp to Slack and start catching the next blocker today.
Free forever for up to 2 channels. No credit card required.