A short, daily team meeting — traditionally held standing up to keep it short — where each participant covers what they did yesterday, what they're doing today, and what's blocking them. Standups originated in agile software development but have spread broadly. Done well, they take ten to fifteen minutes and surface blockers before they become emergencies. Done poorly, they balloon into thirty-minute status meetings that ignore the third question entirely. The async-first version replaces the live call with a written update in a shared channel, which respects time zones and tends to produce more thoughtful blockers. AI meeting copilots that listen to the live version can produce a written digest after the fact, giving you both modes for the cost of one.