The Relay blog

Field notes on async work

We publish when we have something tested to say: no listicles, no “top 10 productivity hacks.” Everything here ran inside real teams (ours or our customers') before it got written down.

Two designers mapping a project on a whiteboard covered in sticky notes and phone-screen wireframe sketches

June 24, 2026 · 9 min read

The meeting audit: how we helped teams cut sync time in half

A 45-minute exercise that finds which of your recurring meetings are doing real work, and which are status theater with agendas.

Priya Raman · Head of product, Relay Studio

A remote worker stands at a home-office standing desk, joining a video call from his living room

May 12, 2026 · 8 min read

Async standups that people actually read

Most written standups die because they're meeting minutes wearing a new hat. Here's the prompt structure, cadence and honesty rules that make digests stick.

Jonas Kettler · Engineering lead, Relay Studio

Why only two posts?

Because that's how many things we've tested well enough to publish. The changelog is where the weekly momentum lives: see what shipped.