BetterTeams — The Meeting Platform for High-Performing Teams
1:1s · Team meetings · External guests

Build your agenda
before the meeting even starts

Both sides add topics upfront — 1:1s, team standups, or meetings with external guests. Every conversation is structured, tracked, and actionable.

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1:1 — Sara Chen
Weekly · Today 2:00 PM · 45 min
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Agenda 3
Your topics
Q3 migration status
Added by you · Done
Promotion timeline
Added by you
Sara's topics
AWS permissions
Added by Sara C.
Action items
Design doc shared
Done
Write RFC for pipeline
2d ago
External guest joined
James from Design added 2 agenda topics before the meeting.
Agenda ready
5 topics added upfront
Both sides contributed · 2 hrs before
The problem

Most managers are running their teams in the dark

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Scattered notes
1:1 notes live in Google Docs, Notion, sticky notes, and memory. No structure. No continuity. No accountability.
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Disconnected reviews
Performance reviews happen once a year but the work happens every day. Nothing connects daily context to formal feedback.
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Actions that die
Action items from 1:1s vanish. Nobody follows up. The same conversations repeat every week because nothing was tracked.
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Enterprise tools don't fit
Lattice and Workday require 3-month rollouts and $40/seat pricing. A 20-person team simply can't justify them.
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No coaching signal
You only discover someone is disengaged when it's too late — there's no early warning system built for managers.
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Data sovereignty concerns
Sensitive performance data and 1:1 notes can't live on a third-party SaaS for every company. Some teams need full control.
Features

Everything a manager needs,
nothing they don't

Built around the meeting — the single most high-leverage conversation a manager has. Everything compounds from there.

1:1 & Team Meetings

Structured meetings that actually move the needle

Shared agenda built by both sides. Private notes enforced server-side. Action items with carry-forward so nothing falls through the cracks. Works for 1:1s and team standups alike.

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Build the agenda upfront — everyone contributes
Manager, employee, and even external guests add topics before the meeting starts. No more blank-page awkwardness or forgotten talking points.
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Private notes, enforced server-side
Your private scratchpad is truly private — not hidden by a toggle, never sent to the employee's client.
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Action carry-forward
Incomplete actions roll automatically into the next meeting. Accountability built directly into the workflow.
1:1 — Sara Chen
Weekly · Today 2:00 PM · 45 min
Upcoming
5 topics added before the meeting
Your topics
Q3 migration status
Added by you · 2 hrs before meeting
Discuss promotion path to Staff
Auth service refactor blockers
Sara's topics
AWS permissions request
Added by Sara C. · 1 hr before meeting
Code review process feedback
Performance Timeline

The employee record that actually captures reality

Tag entries as Win, Feedback, Concern, or Growth. Build a longitudinal record for every person on your team. Export for performance reviews in one click.

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Tagged entries — full picture, not just negatives
Wins, feedback, concerns, growth moments — all tagged and filterable so patterns emerge over time.
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One-click export for review season
Generate a clean markdown document grouped by tag — ready for annual reviews, promotions, or PIPs.
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Private vs shared entries
Manager's private observations never reach the employee — until you decide to share them.
Sara Chen — Timeline
Senior Engineer · 14 months of history
All Win Feedback Concern
Apr 23 — Architecture review
Led backend migration review. Strong cross-team communication shown for the first time.
Win
Apr 9 — Scope management
Third time taking extra scope without flagging capacity risk. Pattern to address.
Feedback
Mar 19 — Promo path
Technically ready for Staff. Gap: cross-functional influence. Set 6-month stretch goal.
Growth
Team Insights & Coaching

Catch the signals before they become problems

Heatmaps, momentum scores, and daily coaching nudges give you a real-time picture of every person on your team — not just at review time.

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Team insights dashboard
Engagement heatmap, 1:1 cadence tracking, action completion rates — everything in one view.
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Momentum scores
Each team member gets a rolling momentum score based on meeting cadence, action completion, and timeline activity.
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Coaching nudges — daily alerts
Missed 1:1s, overdue actions, imbalanced conversations. Catch drift early and act before it compounds.
Team Insights
4 members · This month
Live
Momentum scores
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Sara Chen
82
PR
Priya Rao
76
AK
Alex Kim
61
MT
Marcus T.
34
⚡ Coaching nudge
Marcus has had no 1:1 in 14 days. Action items 2 weeks overdue.
74%
Managers without a dedicated tool
Using docs or nothing at all
3×
Higher retention with strong 1:1 habits
Harvard Business Review
8wk
Average time to measurable ROI
From first login to visible impact
60%
Less than Lattice at Growth tier
Same outcomes, a fraction of the cost
Scale — Self-Hosted

Your infrastructure.
Your data.
Your rules.

For companies that need complete data sovereignty — deploy BetterTeams on your own servers using our official Docker image. Full feature parity, zero SaaS dependency.

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Docker image provided
Official Docker image on every release. Runs on any infrastructure — AWS, GCP, Azure, or bare metal.
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Full data sovereignty
All meeting notes, performance data, and 1:1 records stay entirely within your network. We never see your data.
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Custom branding & SSO
White-label with your logo, colors, and domain. Integrate with your existing SSO provider (Okta, Azure AD, Google).
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Dedicated support & SLA
Private Slack channel with the engineering team. Guaranteed response SLA. License includes all future updates.
Unlimited seats Air-gapped deployment GDPR & SOC 2 ready Custom SLA White-label
Talk to us → Or email hello@betterteams.io
betterteams — deploy
$ docker pull betterteams/app:latest
latest: Pulling from betterteams/app
Digest: sha256:a8f3c1... ✓ verified
$ docker compose up -d
Starting betterteams_db ... done
Starting betterteams_redis ... done
Starting betterteams_web ... done
$ docker exec betterteams_web rails db:migrate
== Migrating ... ✓ done
# BetterTeams is live at https://betterteams.yourcompany.com
✓ Self-hosted. All data stays on your servers.
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One Docker image
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Pricing

Simple pricing,
no surprises

Per seat, billed monthly or annually. Cancel anytime. Start free on any plan.

Starter
$9
per seat / month
  • Recurring 1:1 meetings
  • Team meetings
  • Shared & private notes
  • Action items & carry-forward
  • External guest access
  • Up to 7 members
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Growth Popular
$19
per seat / month
  • Everything in Starter
  • Performance timeline
  • Performance reviews workflow
  • Team insights & heatmap
  • Coaching nudges (daily)
  • Momentum scores
  • Unlimited members
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Scale 🐳
Custom
self-hosted license · unlimited seats
  • Everything in Growth
  • Docker image — deploy anywhere
  • Full data sovereignty
  • Unlimited users, no per-seat fee
  • Custom branding & domain
  • SSO (Okta, Azure AD, Google)
  • Dedicated support & SLA
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Testimonials

What managers are actually saying

★★★★★
"Before BetterTeams I was scrambling to remember what happened 3 months ago before every review cycle. Now I have a full timeline for every person on my team."
JL
Jamie L.
Engineering Manager · Fintech startup
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"The private notes feature changed how I work. I can keep honest observations without worrying they'll be seen before I'm ready to have the conversation."
SR
Sofia R.
Product Manager · B2B SaaS
★★★★★
"The self-hosted option was a dealbreaker for us. Sensitive performance data can't live on a third-party server. BetterTeams was the only tool that solved this."
TK
Tom K.
VP Engineering · Series B

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