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PILLAR — "The async standup playbook: how 14 distributed teams dropped the 9 AM call"
Keyword: async standup (~1,900/mo) · Intent: informational, late-stage
Gap in current top results: none give a template by team size; all assume 5–8 people.
H2s: Why the sync standup breaks past 3 time zones / The 3 formats by team size / Slack + Notion templates / What to do when nobody posts / Daily vs weekly / Tools compared honestly

Supporting articles
1. "Async standup template (Slack and Notion versions)" — async standup template (~720) · transactional · links to H2 #3
2. "Why your async standup is being ignored — and the 3-line fix" — async standup not working (~210) · informational · H2 #4
3. "Daily or weekly async standup for a 6-person team?" — daily vs weekly standup (~140) · comparison · H2 #5
4. "Async standup across 5+ time zones: what actually works" — async standup timezone (~95) · informational · H2 #1
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Publishing order: 1, 2, 4 first (quick wins, low competition), pillar in week 3, remaining support weeks 4–6.

Top 5 unmet needs (67 interviews)

1. Onboarding takes too long — 41 customers
   "I gave up before my first usable result." (I-12) · "Two evenings to set up something I wanted to try in ten minutes." (I-38)
   Trigger: trying the product between meetings, on a phone.
2. Sharing with the team is friction — 33
   "I ended up screenshotting the dashboard into Slack." (I-05)
3. Integration with the existing stack — 29
4. Pricing surprise in month two — 24
5. Progress does not sync between devices — 18

Early signals
- Offline mode — I-12, I-38, I-51: "I'd pay for it to just work on the train." Unprompted in three separate interviews; not noise.
- Public API — I-22 only.

Contradictions
- 14 customers want fewer notifications; 9 want a daily nudge. Both groups are under 30 days in.

Say vs. want
- Say: "more features." Want, from behaviour: the three they already use to be faster. (I-07, I-44)

Follow-ups for next round
1. "What did you expect to have working within ten minutes?"
2. "Who else looks at this, and how do they see it today?"