A chapter-by-chapter tour of the product: signing in, setting the North Star, capturing and scoring work, focus, check-ins, chat, meetings, the AI Chief of Staff, the Ledger and Org Collective, results, reviews, and the manager and admin surfaces.
Alygn has no passwords — you log in with a magic link. Once you’re in, the left sidebar is your map: your everyday tools up top, then Managers and Admin sections lower down if you have those permissions — each collapses into its own group so the menu only shows what applies to you.
Everything in Alygn hangs off your company’s top goals. Spend two minutes here first — once you know the North Star, every score and suggestion makes sense.
Adding a task takes seconds, and Alygn scores each one against your goals as you type — so what matters is obvious before you even start.
Open any task to find everything in one place: sub-steps, files, its alignment breakdown, and the buttons to move it forward.
Prefer cards and columns? My Tasks has a Kanban board over the very same tasks — drag a card and the task moves with it. Three views each answer a different question, and every card still shows how well it serves a goal.
When something needs a teammate, don’t drop it in a chat and hope. A handover carries the context, the deadline, and a clear accept — and Alygn tracks it until it lands.
Alignment means nothing without time to do the work. Focus mode quiets everything down, runs a timer, and gives you an AI that already knows your workspace.
The focus assistant does more than answer questions. Give it a file and an instruction and it will build the document, deck or spreadsheet, check its own numbers, look things up on the web and keep the sources, and even work through a website with you. It shows you what it plans to do, and nothing that sends, saves or submits happens until you say yes.
A one-tap check-in on how the day went, and one place that quietly answers “who needs me today?” — who’s stuck, who’s gone quiet, and who’s doing fine. A gentle read on momentum, never a surveillance tool. (Not to be confused with Check-ins for managers — that’s your private 1:1 log, covered later.)
Alygn needs to know which days you work. Set them once, add leave or days off in one place, and your reminders, hand-off clocks and manager all follow. There is no approval step in Alygn — agreeing leave stays with your usual process.
A fast, familiar place to talk — channels, direct messages, threads and status. Mention a channel or a task and Alygn helps connect the conversation to the work.
Alygn can join your calls, capture the notes, and turn spoken commitments into tracked tasks — so “I’ll send that over” actually happens.
The teammate who remembers everything and never sleeps. It draws on your tasks, goals, meetings and documented know-how — so its help is about *your* work, not generic advice.
The playbooks, patterns and decisions you write down become reusable know-how — and quiet credit for the work that makes everyone else faster.
Every meeting, decision, KPI and relationship the company generates becomes one living map. Search it, ask it a question, or just explore — the Collective only ever answers from what you’re allowed to see.
Policies, SOPs, how-to guides and templates, kept in one place with an owner, a version and an audience — and read by the Org Collective, so its answers can quote them.
Every thread that needs your reply, ranked by how much it actually matters — not by whoever emailed last. Snooze what can wait, and watch the list empty out.
Extend Alygn with bots and integrations built on its API — install one from the catalogue, or register your own.
All that aligned work adds up. My Results turns it into a clear picture of where your effort went — filterable by period, and ready to export.
Every point on the board is weighted by alignment or confirmed by a peer — so the only way to climb is to do the work the organisation says matters. Being seen and being productive become the same thing.
One composer for every moment feedback naturally comes up — closing a hand-off, a check-in note, or just because — so it’s captured as it happens instead of recalled in a rushed survey once a year.
No once-a-year surprises. When a cycle opens, you and your manager fill mirrored forms grounded in real evidence, meet to align, and agree on a shared write-up you both sign.
After reviews complete, managers get a clear talent picture: performance against potential, in a 3×3 grid with named, actionable cells. It’s never shown to the person under review.
Regular, private one-on-ones with each report — a place to raise blockers and get support early, with AI-drafted recap letters to close the loop.
One dashboard for how your team is actually doing — activity, engagement, and hand-offs — plus the queue for approving the personal KPIs your reports set for themselves.
A little setup goes a long way. Admins define the goals, invite the org, and shape who can do what — everyone else gets a system that already fits. Every admin surface lives under Admin in the sidebar, its own section once you have the role.
Four admin surfaces that turn the organisation’s real work into evidence — a board-ready deck, a company-wide results report, a full trail of what the AI did, and the searchable memory behind all of it.
Keep tabs on what needs you, make Alygn yours, and know where to turn if you’re stuck.
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