Retrospectives· Oakland, California, US· Founded 2022
RetroTeam
AI-first retro tool the vendor is winding down
Overall score
4.6
AI-first retro tool the vendor is winding down
The vendor has announced RetroTeam is winding down and moved its team to ChannelPulse, an AI interview coach. Checked 5 October 2026: the homepage is a farewell notice (site last republished 4 September 2026), while the app at main.retroteam.ai and its backend still respond, serving sign-in and sign-up under a "RetroTeam is winding down" banner and a full-screen notice users can click past to "Continue to RetroTeam"; the pricing page still lists the Free, $10 and $30 plans with no notice. No shutdown date, data-export path or migration guidance has been published. The last product announcement was 24 February 2025 and the newest docs update 18 June 2025.
Best for: Nobody adopting today — the vendor has announced it is winding down. Existing teams should export their PDF reports and pick a replacement.
RetroTeam no longer pitches itself as a retro tool. The homepage is a farewell notice ("We've decided to focus on interviewing"), and the app's sign-in screen, dashboard and boards all sit under this banner:
"RetroTeam is winding down. We are moving away from RetroTeam to ChannelPulse, our AI interview coach."
The rest of the site still tells the old story: an AI-first four-stage retro — capture, AI group, vote, AI actions — with Jira as the only named integration and flat plan pricing at $10 or $30 a month for the whole org rather than per seat. Docs and security pages close with a ChannelPulse plug; the pricing page carries no notice and still links straight to sign-up.
The product still does one job cleanly. A four-stage board with a timer on every stage, AI grouping you accept or reject per suggestion rather than have applied over your head, votes hidden even from the facilitator, and AI-drafted action items with an owner, status and due date. Analytics rolls the last 15 retros into "three things going well, three to improve". At $30/mo flat for 50 users it undercut every per-seat rival.
None of that decides it now. The vendor has announced it is winding down and moved to an unrelated interview-coaching product. There is no published shutdown date and no migration guidance, and the only way out is a PDF report — no API, no webhooks, no MCP server. Hosting stays US-only; SSO, SCIM, SOC 2 and audit logs were never there.
Don't start here. If your team is already on RetroTeam, pull your reports and choose a successor this sprint.