Shortcut + Steady

Shortcut Integration for Team Coordination

Your team’s work already lives in Shortcut; stories, sprints, epics, deliverables. But that activity doesn’t automatically translate into team visibility. Steady bridges that gap. Connect Shortcut and your story activity automatically attaches to human-written check-ins and goal updates, giving raw activity complete context.

How the Shortcut Integration Works

Smart Check-ins: Story updates sync with each team member’s daily check-ins automatically. When Sarah completes a story, it appears in her standup. When Marcus moves a story to “In Progress,” it shows up in today’s team update. No manual linking, no typing story names into Slack; Shortcut activity attaches to check-ins so everyone sees concrete progress, fully contextualized by human-written summaries.

Goal Stories: Use AI-enhanced templates to quickly draft updates by automatically summarizing Shortcut activity. Prompt the AI: “Summarize completed Shortcut stories from last sprint, organized by epic.” Turn raw Shortcut data into stakeholder-ready goal updates in seconds.

Echoes: Set up automated reports that monitor your Shortcut data on whatever schedule you need. Configure an Echo to summarize completed stories every Friday or track sprint progress weekly. Echoes delivers tailored Shortcut summaries automatically.

Insights: Shortcut activity flows into Steady’s realtime analytics, giving you visibility into work patterns over time. Cross-compare Shortcut activity with other Insights reports—like Participation, Intentions Met, or Blockers—to understand holistic trends.

Key Benefits

Eliminate Status Update Meetings - When story updates flow into daily check-ins automatically, you don’t need meetings where team members recite which stories they completed. Everyone can see who’s working on what, what’s blocked, and what finished; all without interrupting anyone’s flow.

Draft Sprint Reviews in Seconds - Summarize Shortcut activity with AI-powered templates. Pick your level of detail—high-level epic overview or story-by-story breakdown—and AI transforms story updates into polished progress reports.

Reduce Context Switching - Team members stay in their flow. Shortcut activity appears in Steady automatically—no need to manually update Slack or duplicate status across tools.

Use Cases

Async Daily Standups for Engineering Teams - Instead of synchronous status meetings, everyone submits check-ins when their day starts. Steady automatically attaches yesterday’s Shortcut story updates; no one types “completed user authentication” because the Shortcut activity is right there. The whole team sees concrete progress without synchronous coordination.

Sprint Retrospective Prep on Autopilot - Set up an Echo: “Summarize all Shortcut stories completed this sprint, organized by epic. Include any stories still in progress.” It delivers automatically before your retrospective. Walk into the meeting with a complete picture of what shipped.

Installation

To set up the Shortcut integration, go to Account Settings -> Integrations and connect to Shortcut. Read the documentation for more information.

About Shortcut

Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse) is a project management platform built for software teams that combines planning, tracking, and collaboration features with a focus on simplicity and speed. It offers story-based workflows, sprint planning, roadmap visualization, and integrations with development tools to help engineering teams organize work and ship faster.

Frequently asked questions

How does the Shortcut integration work with daily standups?

When you connect Shortcut to Steady, each team member’s story updates automatically appear in their daily check-in. Team members answer standup questions via Slack, web, or mobile, and Steady attaches their Shortcut activity automatically—no manual copy-pasting of story names or status updates required.

What Shortcut data appears in Steady?

Steady syncs story updates from Shortcut. Story activity appears in Smart Check-ins automatically, flows into Insights reports for trend analysis, and can be summarized using AI-enhanced templates in Goal Stories or scheduled Echoes reports.

Do team members need to do anything after Shortcut is connected?

No. Once an admin connects Shortcut, all team members’ story activity automatically syncs to their check-ins. Team members don’t need to authenticate individually or change their workflow—just keep updating stories normally and activity appears in Steady automatically.