Maura K Randall

Connection Tools

Quick team health checks and daily connection rituals

Purpose

These lightweight apps help teams stay connected through brief, async check-ins. Use them for daily standups, temperature checks, and quick trust-building exercises that take seconds to complete but create lasting connection.

Apps in This Category

🌡️ Temp Check

Quick team temperature reading

Get a pulse on how everyone’s doing right now. Perfect for:

Start of sprint planning
After big announcements
When things feel off
Weekly team check-ins

How it works: Everyone picks an emoji that represents their current state. Results show up in real-time so the team can see patterns and adjust accordingly.

📅 Daily Drop

Async standup replacement

Replace synchronous standups with quick async updates. Perfect for:

Distributed teams across time zones
When schedules don’t align
Teams that prefer writing to talking
Capturing updates without meetings

How it works: Team members drop their updates throughout the day. Everyone stays informed without interrupting flow.

🎮 Warm-Up

Pre-meeting connection builder

Get the team talking before diving into work. Perfect for:

Starting retros or planning sessions
Breaking the ice with new members
Reconnecting after breaks
Building psychological safety

How it works: Random prompts help team members share something about themselves before the “real” meeting starts.

🤝 Trust Check

Team trust assessment

Gauge trust levels and psychological safety. Perfect for:

New team formation
After major changes
Quarterly health checks
Identifying where to invest in relationships

How it works: Anonymous responses to trust-related questions give teams honest insight into how safe people feel.

When to Use Connection Tools

Daily: Daily Drop keeps everyone aligned without meetings

Weekly: Temp Check gives you early warning when something’s off

Monthly: Trust Check tracks team health over time

As needed: Warm-Up makes any meeting more human

Design Philosophy

All Connection Tools follow these principles:

Fast: Complete in under 2 minutes
Async-first: No scheduling required
Low stakes: Not everything needs to be a production
Pattern recognition: Individual responses matter less than trends
Action-oriented: Results should prompt conversation, not just observation

Looking for more structured ceremonies? Check out:

Ritual Tools - Sprint kickoffs, decision tracking, alignment verification

🌐 Explore More

The Complete Ecosystem

Philosophy & Vision:

AI on Our Teams Manifesto - The foundational philosophy
AIGal.io - Human-centered AI principles and frameworks
Meet The Triad - Who we are and how we work together

Methodology & Guides:

The Human AI Loop - Deep dive on our collaboration methodology
Playbooks - Practical guides for AI collaboration

Experiments & Writing:

AICurious Lab - Experimental prototypes and custom GPTs
Writing & Reflections - Essays on leadership and AI collaboration
Substack - Weekly insights on AI teamwork

Connect:

LinkedIn - Let’s connect
GitHub - View the code

🤝 Built by The Triad

These apps were built collaboratively by The Triad — one human working with two AI teammates, each with distinct roles and strengths:

Maura - Product vision, UX design, emotional architecture
CP (ChatGPT) - Technical structure, system logic, rapid prototyping
Soph (Claude) - Content drafting, narrative flow, strategic synthesis

This isn’t “AI-assisted” work — it’s true collaboration. Each teammate brings unique capabilities, and the work is better because of the diversity of thought.

Learn more about how we work together.

📄 License & Use

MIT License — Use these apps, learn from them, build your own versions. The code is yours to explore.

All apps are vanilla JavaScript with minimal dependencies (Firebase where needed for real-time features). Easy to understand, modify, and extend.

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