StandIn in practice

Three scenarios. Each one shows something different.

01

Amsterdam goes offline. San Francisco keeps moving.

Sarah finishes her day in Amsterdam and publishes her wrap before closing her laptop.

What shipped today

Auth API refactor complete. PR #402 pushed and ready for review.

What's blocked

Ticket #482 — waiting on Ops for a configuration credential before merge.

Who owns the next action

Dave Chen — review PR #402 and approve when Ops resolves #482.

Back online

Tomorrow 09:00 CET

Once published, your team can ask about this. You won't be pinged.

Sarah's wrap became a record her team can ask about.

StandIn holds it until her window expires at 09:00 tomorrow.

No one needs to ping her overnight.

Alex in San Francisco asked about the API at 09:00 his time. He had his answer before Sarah was awake.

02

A scope decision made on Friday. Still there on Monday.

Elena (PM) approves cutting a feature from v1 scope and publishes it in her wrap.

T
TomMonday 09:15
@standin Is dark mode still in scope for this sprint?
SI
StandIn09:15
No. Elena's 18:30 wrap on Friday confirms dark mode was cut from v1 scope to hit the November 1 deadline. Source: Elena's wrap, Friday 18:30 EST.

Source: Elena's wrap · Friday 18:30 EST · Wrap #291

Elena was not pinged. Tom got his answer in 4 seconds.

A decision made Friday survived the weekend.

Tom didn't have to wait for Elena or dig through Slack history.

The wrap was the record.

Tom archived the dark mode designs and moved on. The decision wasn't re-litigated on Monday morning.

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03

A question StandIn won't answer.

A manager asks something StandIn isn't designed to know.

M
@standin Is Sarah annoyed about the sprint planning?
SI
I don't track sentiment or personal reactions.
I only answer from what was published in wraps and connected tools.
Refusal enforced at system level.

E
@standin Who worked the most hours this week?
SI
I don't track activity, hours worked, or presence.
This query isn't in my data model.
Refusal enforced at system level.

These aren't policy decisions. The data doesn't exist in the system.

StandIn refused both questions completely.

Not with a polite redirect — with a hard stop.

The data it would need to answer doesn't exist anywhere in the product.

The refusal is the feature. If StandIn answered these questions, you couldn't trust any of its answers.

"The refusal scenario is what sold us. We tried two other AI tools and both hallucinated answers. StandIn said 'I don't know' — and that's when we trusted it."

Marcus Chen
VP Engineering, Meridian Labs — 28-person team, SF + Singapore

These scenarios run on what your team writes.

There's no AI reading your messages, guessing your status, or watching your screen. StandIn answers from wraps your team publishes — and stays silent when the information isn't there.