Ask your teammates anything without asking them

august trains Digital Twins of your teammates directly from Slack. Ask your CEO for feedback on a customer deck or senior engineer what they think about an implementation plan all within august.

From our own team

How we have been using teammate twins.

How it works

From Slack to a twin of every consenting teammate.

1

Connect Slack on your terms

You create a read-only connector inside your own Slack workspace. It has no permission to post, and it only reads the public channels you explicitly add it to.

2

Pick channels, pick teammates

You choose which channels august learns from and what teammates twins get built for.

3

Twins train on real conversations

august ingests up to a year of threads and keeps learning as new conversations happen. Each twin captures how a teammate actually writes, decides, and pushes back.

Interested in learning more about what a twin is and how we train them?The three layers every twin is built from, and the training pipeline behind them.Read the blog post
What you can do

Every hard conversation, rehearsed first.

Run 1:1 conversations, focus groups, and surveys with twins of your own team, the same research tools august points at your customers.

Ask one on one

Ask one coworker before you ask the room.

Run a proposal past a teammate's twin and get an honest first reaction: the pushback, the caveat, the thing they'd say in the thread. Twins reply the way the real person actually writes.

If we moved standup to async next sprint, what would your honest reaction be?
Jordan M.
honestly? relieved
but watch out for the two of us who use standup to unblock. if async replies sit for hours you've traded 15 min for a half day
Pressure-test changes

Put a change in front of the whole team.

Run a process change, a roadmap direction, or a build vs. buy call past everyone's twins at once. See where the team splits and who dissents while the plan is still cheap to change.

Focus Group Report8 participants

Should we adopt the new release process?

6 of 8 would adopt it, but the two holdouts are the ones who ship most often. Their objection is the extra approval step, not the process itself. Drop that step and the room flips to unanimous.

Measure sentiment

Learn how the team actually feels.

Ask the whole team's twins the same question about meeting load, on-call, or planning cadence and get a quantified answer in minutes.

You surveyed the whole teamHow often should planning actually happen?
Keep weekly planning25%
Move to biweekly62%
No strong preference13%

Know how the team will react before you hit send.

Sign up, connect Slack, and august starts training colleague twins from the channels you choose. Free credits included, no credit card required.