Retroscribe is a real-time retrospective board your whole team joins with one link — no accounts needed. Collect, vote, and discuss together. And soon: an AI scribe that records the meeting, syncs the transcript to your cards, and drafts the report — action items assigned to owners.
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The conversation is good. The notes are not. Retroscribe fixes the part of the retro that happens after everyone leaves the call.
One person scribbles in a side doc while trying to participate. Half the discussion never gets captured; the doc never gets read.
"We should fix that" gets nodded at, then evaporates. Next retro, the same card shows up — with the same nods.
Early cards anchor everyone's thinking, and quiet teammates default to +1-ing whatever's already on the board.
A focused toolkit for running retrospectives live — built on real-time sync so the whole team is always looking at the same board.
Cards, votes, timers, polls, and presence stream to every screen instantly. No refresh button, no "can you see it yet?"
3 live data streams per boardWent Well / To Improve, Glad Sad Mad, Start Stop Continue, 4Ls — or build a custom layout. Live board in seconds.
Up to 12 columns per boardTeammates paste a name and they're in — adding cards, voting, commenting. No account, no invite emails, no waiting.
Guest data auto-deleted after 30 daysOne vote per person per card, a live "Votes left" counter, and a host-side lock when voting ends. Reset all votes for round two.
Concurrent votes never overwrite each otherOn anonymous boards, authorship is stripped before the card is saved — identity never reaches the database, so honesty is structural, not cosmetic.
Anonymized at write time, not hidden in UIDrop a duplicate onto its twin: texts combine, comments and action points carry over, and votes are deduplicated per person — nobody's dot disappears.
Vote dedup proven by race-condition testsA synced timer everyone sees, live polls with instant results, spotlight to pull the room onto one card, and card blur to prevent groupthink.
Timers 1–60 min · polls from 2 optionsThread comments on any card, react with emoji, or paste a screenshot straight from your clipboard — the bug lands on the retro board, in context.
Images up to 5 MB · PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebPAttach tasks to the exact card that sparked them — any member can add one, even on someone else's card. Decisions stay welded to their context.
Atomic writes — parallel edits never collideSee who's actually in the room, get a toast when someone joins, and let the Log Book track arrivals, departures, and session length automatically.
Attendance recorded without manual notesFacilitator dropped off the call? Transfer the host role with one click and every host control moves to the new facilitator in real time.
Live host handoff, no restart neededEnd the meeting and the board locks into a protocol of the session — cards can't quietly change afterward, so what you agreed is what stays.
Post-meeting card lockout for participantsRetroscribe's facilitator tools map to the natural rhythm of a great retrospective.
Share the link, start the timer, and let the whole team add cards in parallel. Blur cards so nobody anchors on their neighbor's ideas; go anonymous when the topic is spicy.
Drag cards between columns and drop duplicates onto each other. Merged cards keep every comment, every action point, and every deduplicated vote.
Set a vote budget per person and watch the priorities surface. When time's up, lock voting and sort each column by votes — the agenda writes itself.
Spotlight the top card so it pulses on every screen. Timebox the conversation, capture action points on the card itself, and mark it Discussed to keep momentum visible.
End the meeting and the board freezes into a faithful record: cards, votes, decisions, and the Log Book's attendance trail. Next sprint, it's one click away in Recent Boards.
This is where Retroscribe is headed: a scribe that listens to the whole meeting — in Microsoft Teams or right here — and writes the report nobody wants to write.
Run the retro as a Microsoft Teams meeting add-in — board on the shared stage, facilitator remote in the side panel — or record inside Retroscribe itself. The meeting transcript becomes raw material.
Retroscribe already knows which card was spotlighted, voted, and discussed at every moment. The transcript is aligned to that live card timeline — minute by minute, card by card.
After the meeting, AI drafts the retro report: what was decided, why, and every action item assigned to a named owner from the meeting roster. The scribe takes its own notes.
Everything in this section is roadmap, not product — we'd rather show you the destination honestly than sell you the journey twice. The board above it? That works today.
Retros only work when people can speak freely. That trust is enforced in the database rules — not promised in a policy page.
Every board, card, and session log is readable only by that board's members. Anything not explicitly allowed is denied at the database layer — server-side Firebase security rules, not client-side checks.
Board IDs are random and unguessable, and listing boards is blocked outright. The only way in is the link you chose to share — with the people you chose to share it with.
Field-level rules enforce limits (200-char titles, 5,000-char cards, 12 columns), make card and board authorship immutable, and let members touch only collaborative fields — votes, comments, action points — on other people's cards.
App Check (reCAPTCHA v3) is enforced on database, storage, and auth, so only the real app can talk to the backend. An enforcing Content-Security-Policy, clickjacking protection, and XSS-safe rendering round it out.
Tested, not just claimed: 112 security-rule tests (including simulated attacker scenarios) and 74 end-to-end browser tests — multi-user races, guest permission gating, hostile file names — run in CI on every change.
Pick a template, share the URL, and run a retro your team will actually remember — because the board remembers it for them.
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