Team debriefs
Run a project retro without a meeting, each person telling their side privately
In a retro meeting the loudest view tends to set the room. Here each person answers on their own, in their own time, and you read all the sides together afterwards.
Who to send it to
Send the share link to the people who worked on the project: teammates, an interview panel, outside collaborators. Nobody needs to find a shared hour. Each person opens the link and answers alone, and one link works for the whole group.
What to ask
Type one open question, such as “What did you notice during the project, and what should we change next time?”. Ask about what happened to them, not for a verdict on colleagues.
What the follow-up draws out
A first answer in a retro is often the polite one: “communication could be better”. distil’s AI follows up on each person’s own answer, asking for the last time it happened or what they did about it, so specifics and concerns they might not say aloud in the room can come out. Each person talks only with the AI; they do not see other people’s answers.
How it compares to a retro meeting and a retro form
A meeting lets people react to each other and agree actions on the spot, which this does not do; keep the meeting for deciding. A form gives everyone the same fixed boxes. A conversation takes 5–10 minutes and follows what each person says. It is private from teammates, but not anonymous: you, as the person who creates it, read what each person said, with their quotes attributed, so tell the team that up front.
What you get back
distil is free to create and answer. You get findings with quotes from the people who said them, where people saw the same event differently, and where the evidence is thin. You can then take those differences into a short meeting instead of starting from a blank page.
Try it on the team that just finished
Write the question, send the link to the team, and read what each person said.