Documentation
How SmartRetro works, in practice.
Guides for the whole loop — connecting sources, reading signals, running retros, and keeping follow-through visible.
Getting started
What is SmartRetro?
How SmartRetro works in one page: signals from your tools, retros with a prepared brief, and follow-through that stays visible.
Quickstart: your first retro
From a fresh account to a finished first retro: onboarding, connecting a source, scheduling, and running the meeting.
Inviting your team
How to invite teammates, what each role can do, and what happens between sending an invitation and their first sign-in.
Teams and scope
How teams organize everything in SmartRetro, how the team switcher sets your scope, and what archiving a team actually does.
The core loop
Running a retro
The full meeting flow: scheduling, templates, the four phases, voting, themes, and turning cards into action items.
Signals
The signal feed: what surfaces, why, and how your verdicts teach SmartRetro what your team cares about.
The brief
What SmartRetro assembles before each retro: patterns since last time, carried-forward commitments, and topics your team flagged.
Action items
Owners, due dates, status, overdue nudges, and carry-forward — how commitments from a retro stay visible until they're done.
Recall
Search your team's memory — did we ever decide or discuss this? — across retro cards, summaries, themes, and watched Slack.
Objectives
Set objectives and measurable key results, track progress, and connect retro action items to the outcomes they move.
Integrations
Slack
Connect Slack, opt channels in, route them to teams, and get digests, nudges, and /smartretro recall.
GitHub and GitLab
Connect your code host for delivery signals — metadata only, never your source code — with a signed webhook you control.
Trackers: Linear and Jira
Connect a tracker to export action items and cross-check their completion, so 'done' means done.
Bring your own LLM key
Run SmartRetro's AI features under your own provider account, so model calls happen on your key and your terms.
Account & admin