Built for the people who run retros
You shouldn’t have to work
this hard to run a retro.
You’re the one running the retro, chasing standup responses, and trying to connect daily blockers to biweekly discussions. Unpack handles your sprint rituals so you can do what you’re actually good at: facilitating.
Free for teams up to 10. No credit card required.
The meeting before the meeting.
You spend 15 minutes before every retro setting up a Miro board or a Google Doc. You copy the template, set up columns, write the prompts, check the timer. Then the meeting starts and you’re facilitating and note-taking and timekeeping — all at once.
You also review standup responses scattered across Slack threads. You manually extract themes. You try to remember which blockers were raised Monday so you can surface them in Friday’s retro.
Afterward, you copy action items into Jira or Slack or whatever system your team uses this week. You send a recap that half the team doesn’t read. Next sprint, you do it all again.
What if the tool did the logistics and you just led the conversation?
A retro that runs itself.
Seven guided phases keep your team focused and on time. You advance when you’re ready.
Check-in
Mood pulse
Reflect
Write cards
Group
AI themes
Vote
Prioritize
Discuss
Dive deep
Commit
Set actions
Close
Summarize
AI-suggested groups
Process Bottlenecks
4 cards · Recurring theme
Cross-team Communication
3 cards · New this sprint
Deployment Wins
5 cards · Trending positive
AI groups the feedback.
You guide the conversation.
After your team writes their cards, AI reads all of them and suggests thematic groups. It spots connections across 30 cards in seconds — including patterns that have been recurring across sprints.
Accept the groups that make sense. Modify or dismiss the rest. You stay in control. The tool just saves you 10 minutes of squinting at sticky notes.
AI facilitator coaching
An AI co-pilot that makes
every facilitator great.
During discussions, the AI has full context — every card, every vote, every theme. It suggests the probing questions experienced coaches ask: “What would happen if this continued?” and “What’s the one thing we could change this sprint?”
When it’s time to commit, AI drafts SMART action items linked to what the team actually discussed — with owners, success criteria, and deadlines. You review and accept. No more “improve communication” on a sticky note.
During the discussion
“Process Bottlenecks” got the most votes. Try asking: What’s one specific handoff that broke this sprint?
Add deploy runbook to wiki
Owner: @jordan · Due: Feb 28 · Success: documented rollback for top 3 failure modes
Auto-close at 10 AM
AI Summary
5 blockers raised this week. Theme: DevOps approvals slowing deploys.
Bridged to Retro
DevOps bottleneck theme added to Sprint 14 Retro discussion queue.
Standups run themselves.
AI summarizes. Themes flow into your retro.
Team members respond async with yesterday/today/blockers. Standups auto-close at 10 AM with an AI summary. No need to manually extract themes or chase responses — recurring blockers automatically surface in your next retro.
The standup-to-retro data bridge means daily signals feed biweekly discussions. You’re facilitating with full context, not guessing what happened since the last retro.
The retro doesn’t end when
the meeting does.
Every action item gets an owner and a deadline — assigned during the meeting, not copied over later. Sync to Jira or Linear with one click. Status updates flow back automatically, so you always know what’s done.
Incomplete items carry over to the next retro automatically. Your team gets Slack notifications when retros open, items land on their plate, and a weekly digest of what’s still outstanding. No more “can someone share the notes?”
Action items
Shorten standup to 15 min
@alex · Due Feb 14
Add staging env for QA
@jordan · Completed
Define on-call rotation
@sam · Carried over from Sprint 13
Before Unpack
- 15 min setup before every retro
- Facilitating, note-taking, and timekeeping simultaneously
- Manually copying action items to Jira after every retro
- Grouping 30 sticky notes by hand
- Chasing standup responses in Slack
With Unpack
- Click “Start retro” and you’re live
- Phases guide the meeting so you focus on the people
- AI groups cards, coaches participants, and drafts action items
- Jira syncs automatically, Slack keeps everyone posted, items carry over
- AI co-pilot suggests questions and SMART action items
- Async standups with auto-close, AI summaries, and themes that feed your retro
Set up in under 5 minutes
Sign in. Invite via link. Start your first retro.
Works for 1 team or 20
Multi-team, multi-org. One account covers it all.
Free for small teams
Up to 10 people. No credit card. No trial countdown.
Your next retro could be
the best one yet.
Stop spending energy on logistics and chasing responses. Start spending it on your team.
Free for teams up to 10. No credit card required.
Questions teams ask before switching
- What is Unpack?
- Unpack is an AI sprint retrospective tool for software teams. It replaces the Google Doc and timer, Miro/FigJam boards, and tools like EasyRetro or Parabol — with anonymous-by-default retros, a private AI coach for every participant, and action items that carry over until they're done.
- How is Unpack different from EasyRetro, Parabol, or a Miro board?
- Three things: retros are anonymous for the whole team by default (no per-card opt-out), every participant gets a private 1:1 AI coach that turns "I'm frustrated" into a specific, discussable observation before they share, and action items carry over between sprints and sync to Jira and Linear so commitments don't evaporate.
- Is Unpack free?
- Yes — the Free plan gives one team unlimited retrospectives with anonymous cards and voting, no credit card required. Paid plans add AI coaching, grouping, async standups, and integrations starting at $29 per team per month.
- Does Unpack make retros anonymous?
- Yes. Cards are anonymous by default for the entire team, so the junior engineer with the best insight doesn't have to weigh office politics. Better ideas win because they stand on their own.
- Can Unpack help action items actually get done?
- Every commitment gets an owner and a due date, syncs to Jira or Linear, and incomplete items carry over into the next retro automatically — so your team can't quietly forget them by Wednesday.