WorkMonitor for team managers
See the week your team actually had, without chasing it
A weekly picture of your team that arrives on its own: who is stretched, what shipped, where focus went, so the one-to-one starts somewhere better than "how’s it going?".
Free for two seats, no card.
- A recurring meeting whose only purpose is gathering information.
- You find out someone is drowning when they hand in notice.
- One-to-ones that open with “so, how’s it going?”
Team managers
What changes for you as a manager
Pick a line and the page it happens on opens on the right.
- AKMonitoring & AnalyticsA clear picture of the working week.Search or ask…
- Today
- Insights
- Activity board
- Live screens
- Team
- Agents
- Integrity
- App categories
- Reports & digests
- Capacity
Northlight StudioReports & digestsScheduled delivery to email and SlackSchedule report5scheduled deliveries · 4 running, 1 pausedREPORTCADENCEDELIVERS TOLAST RUN- Weekly activity summaryDaily activityWeekly · Mondays#studio-leads1 Sep
- Billable hours by projectTime entriesMonthly · 1stFinance inbox1 Sep
- Timesheet statusTimesheetsWeekly · MondaysOps inbox1 Sep
- Delivered vs shortfallPerformance weeks (frozen)Weekly · Mondays#people-opsNever
- Overtime watchPausedDaily activityWeekly · MondaysOps inbox25 Aug
DELIVERY LOGWhat actually got delivered- Weekly digest → #studio-leadsMon 08:00Sent
- Weekly digest → Finance inboxMon 08:00Sent
- Alerts → #studio-leadsFri 16:20Sent
Every digest is scoped to its reader — each one covers only the part of the org that reader manages.Runs on our server, 08:00 UTC
- Today
- Insights
- Activity board
- Live screens
- Team
- Agents
- Integrity
- App categories
- Reports & digests
- Capacity
- Weekly activity summaryDaily activityWeekly · Mondays#studio-leads1 Sep
- Billable hours by projectTime entriesMonthly · 1stFinance inbox1 Sep
- Timesheet statusTimesheetsWeekly · MondaysOps inbox1 Sep
- Delivered vs shortfallPerformance weeks (frozen)Weekly · Mondays#people-opsNever
- Overtime watchPausedDaily activityWeekly · MondaysOps inbox25 Aug
- Weekly digest → #studio-leadsMon 08:00Sent
- Weekly digest → Finance inboxMon 08:00Sent
- Alerts → #studio-leadsFri 16:20Sent
Rollout
What the first month looks like for a manager
- 1
Get scoped to your own team
Roles bind to a node in the org tree, so you see the people you manage and the digest arrives scoped to them rather than broadcast org-wide.
- 2
Let the digest replace the status round
Top movers, app usage and what shipped, assembled weekly, which removes the meeting that existed only to collect that.
- 3
Watch the capacity bands
Load, trend and driver per person. A band running hot for three weeks is the conversation to have before it becomes a resignation.
- 4
Open the one-to-one on something shared
Bring the breakdown into the conversation and let the other person see the same view, including their own data and the route to dispute it.
Chasing people for updates vs. arriving already informed
workmonitor.vsManaging on status calls
Finding out how the week went
With WorkMonitor
A digest scoped to what you manage, with the week already assembled.
Managing on status calls
A status meeting, then a follow-up message to the two people who missed it.
Spotting trouble
With WorkMonitor
A capacity band running hot with the driver named, weeks earlier.
Managing on status calls
The missed deadline, or the resignation.
One-to-ones
With WorkMonitor
A shared breakdown neither of you had to prepare, which the other person can also open.
Managing on status calls
Both of you working from memory, and the loudest recollection wins.
Understanding a bad week
With WorkMonitor
The day reconstructed, sessions, switching, meeting density, so the cause is visible.
Managing on status calls
A total number of hours, which explains nothing.
Getting an answer
With WorkMonitor
Ask in plain language against your own scope, and get a cited answer.
Managing on status calls
Ask an analyst, wait, get a report answering a slightly different question.
Approvals
With WorkMonitor
Routed through the approval chain, with separation of duties enforced rather than remembered.
Managing on status calls
A pile that builds until somebody chases you.
- Today
- Insights
- Activity board
- Live screens
- Team
- Agents
- Integrity
- App categories
- Reports & digests
- Capacity
- AKAria K.Figma92Active
- JMJon M.Terminal78Active
- SDSara D.Slack61Active
- RPRavi P.Notion34Idle 11m
- LMLena M.Teams55In a call
- TVTomas V.Off shift0Off
What a manager gets to work with
- Live activity board
- Live screens (a frame every few seconds, nothing stored) — Business and above
- Screenshots & gallery
- Activity timeline / day reconstruction
Ask AI
Ask AI about your team
Scoped to the people you manage, grounded in what the week actually recorded.
Pick a question above and WorkMonitor AI will answer from your team's real numbers.
- Today
- Insights
- Activity board
- Live screens
- Team
- Agents
- Integrity
- App categories
- Reports & digests
- Capacity
- AKAria K.Figma92Active
- JMJon M.Terminal78Active
- SDSara D.Slack61Active
- RPRavi P.Notion34Idle 11m
- LMLena M.Teams55In a call
- TVTomas V.Off shift0Off
The status meeting, already written
Status is normally assembled by asking. Here it is already: hours, activity, attendance and risk on one board, for one person or the whole company. Set the thresholds once and it tells you who needs you.
Jobs to be done
The jobs a manager runs here
- Manage remote & hybrid teamsOne live board across every zone, attendance in each person’s local day, capacity bands that name who is drowning, and a rollout that never touches a machine.
- Score productivity & focusOne score per person, team or company, with the breakdown behind every one. Your categories rather than our defaults, and a capacity signal that names who is running hot.
- Catch anomalies with smart alertsAnomaly detection against your own baseline, six named agents on specific jobs, evidence-cited summaries, and delivery to a channel your team already reads.
- Track time automaticallyNo timer to start, no Friday reconstruction. Idle is split out rather than estimated, and approved hours reach payroll and invoicing without a re-key.
Straight answers
The questions we would ask in your position
Every answer here is the one you would get on a call. Open as many as you like; they stay open, so two can be held side by side.
The status round, and the report you assemble from it. The weekly digest arrives scoped to the people you manage with top movers, app usage and what shipped; anomaly rules push to email or Slack the day a pattern breaks; and the day reconstruction answers "where did Tuesday go" without a meeting. What is left is the conversation itself.
Only if your role is scoped that way. Roles attach to a node in the org tree, so a team lead sees their team and a regional manager sees their region. It is not a company-wide window by default.
No. The weekly digest and the alert rules are built precisely so you do not. The digest arrives with top movers and what shipped, and anomaly alerts push to email or Slack when a pattern breaks. The dashboard is for understanding something, not for noticing it.
As evidence, yes. As a verdict, no, and the product does not present it that way. Every score opens into a breakdown showing which activity produced it, app classifications can be overridden when the defaults misread your team’s tools, and the person being scored can open the same view, which is what keeps a hard conversation from turning into an argument about the number. It is the start of a conversation, which is the only use it holds up under.
Nearby
Teams with the same problem, from another angle
Take these with you
The software is the easy part of a rollout
Here is what we would send a manager doing one for the first time: how to read a productivity number, what to say to a remote team before anything is installed, and a policy you can adopt as written.
Point it at one team for a week.
Create the account, put the agent on a handful of desks, and leave it alone. On Friday you read the week instead of reconstructing it: hours against their projects, focus and idle per person, and the timesheets already filled in.
Free for two seats. No card, and no sales call to sit through.