Retrospective tool

The retrospective tool for teams that want more than a retro board

SmartRetro is an online retrospective tool for product and engineering teams. Run your sprint retrospective with structured templates, turn discussion into owned action items, and let SmartRetro spot the issues that keep coming back — so reflection becomes follow-through, not sticky notes that expire when the call ends.

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What it does

A retrospective tool built around what happens after the retro.

Structured retro sessions

Start / Stop / Continue, Glad / Sad / Mad, and more — collect cards, group themes, and vote without wrangling a whiteboard.

↳ Templates · grouping · voting

Repeat-issue detection

When the same theme shows up across retros, SmartRetro names it and shows the history. No more "didn't we discuss this last sprint?"

↳ Cross-cycle memory

Follow-through that carries forward

Every action item has an owner and a status that survives the meeting. Unfinished work resurfaces at the next retro automatically.

↳ Owners · carry-forward · status

The workflow

Before, during, and after — the retro is a loop, not a meeting.

Before the retro

SmartRetro watches the signals your team already produces — Slack threads, tracker churn, delivery evidence — and drafts a brief so the retro starts with substance instead of recall.

During the retro

Run the format your team likes. Cards, themes, and votes stay structured, and every decision can become an action item with an owner before the call ends.

After the retro

Action items keep their owners and status between cycles. What stalls gets resurfaced; what repeats gets named. The next sprint retrospective starts where this one left off.

New to the practice? Start with the agile retrospective guide or browse the retrospective templates — every format runs inside the tool.

Why not just use the whiteboard

Whiteboards run a meeting. SmartRetro runs a system.

Miro and FigJam are great for single-session collaboration. SmartRetro adds the layer that makes retros compound — pattern memory, follow-through tracking, and AI that works between meetings.

Why AI here is different

Evidence and continuity, not a summary button.

Plenty of retro boards can summarize a column. SmartRetro's AI works across cycles: it connects this retro's themes to last quarter's patterns, ties action items to the delivery evidence that proves they moved, and carries the memory your team doesn't have time to keep. Every surfaced pattern shows the evidence behind it.

AI detects, surfaces, and recommends. Teams decide and act.

SmartRetro is designed to improve team process, not evaluate individual people. Nothing becomes an action or a verdict without a human decision.

Join the beta

Leave your next retro with clear next steps.

SmartRetro is free during the beta. Connect your tools, run your first retro, and see what continuous signal looks like.

  • Free during beta — no credit card required
  • Setup in under 2 minutes
  • Works with Slack, GitHub, and Linear

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