Zen Daily Report

Async check-ins for remote & hybrid teams

Don't write your daily report.
Say it.

Everyone posts a 3-minute check-in — what they did, what's next, and how they're doing. You read the whole team on one screen and react in one tap, across time zones.

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60sec

You talk

~8min

Typing the same report

$5/user/mo

One flat plan

14days

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One feed for the team

See the whole team's day — without a meeting.

Check-ins land on one shared feed. Pick the sharing scope that fits — managers only, within the team, or the whole company — and the day stays visible across time zones.

  • React in one tap — people know they've been read
  • Comments and @mentions keep the conversation on the check-in
  • Mood answers stay between the member and admins — never on the wall

Prefer a classic manager-only flow? Keep sharing off and nothing changes.

How it works

Speak. It becomes a report.

01

Say your day

Tap the mic at the end of your day and talk for a minute — in your own words, from wherever you work.

02

Review the draft

AI fills your team's fields from what you said. You check it and hit submit — the report is always yours.

03

The team reads & reacts

One screen shows everyone's day. Unread check-ins flip past in a tap, with reactions and @mentions.

For writers and readers

Fast on both sides — that's why it sticks

If reporting gets easier but nobody responds, people stop. Zen Daily Report makes writing and reading-and-reacting equally fast.

Your crew

Done in three minutes, wherever you work.

  • Say it — or fill in just today's fields in 15 seconds
  • Attach photos or screenshots straight from your phone
  • Drafts save automatically — interruptions never lose your writing
  • One optional tap to log how the day felt

Managers

Everyone, on one morning screen.

  • See who hasn't checked in at a glance
  • Flip through unread reports and react in one tap
  • Comment and @mention to follow up right there
  • People on days off are never nagged

Industry presets

Pick your industry — useful from day one

Reports are built from blocks. Pick an industry preset and the fields your trade actually uses are already in place. Use the tabs below to preview the entry screen for each industry.

Today's report

Quick entry

What I did today

Visited 3 new leads; Beta Inc moved to a quote request

Numbers

Tasks handled5

What I learned

Quotes sent before 10am get much faster replies

Blockers & questions

Not sure about the approval criteria for discounts — checking case-by-case is slow

Tomorrow's plan

Draft the Beta quote. Team meeting in the afternoon

Submit

Entry screen preview (actual preset fields)

General teams

What I did, numbers, what I learned, blockers, tomorrow's plan

  • A did / learned / next format that builds a natural review habit
  • A dedicated “blockers” field — the one managers most want to read
  • Numeric notes aggregate with zero setup

Blocks like photo reports are preloaded only for the industries that need them.

Use cases

How the report fits your day

A day in the life beats a feature list. Here is when people post their check-in and how the team reads it — from remote teams to stores and field crews.

Remote & hybrid teams

Replace the standup with a 3-minute pulse

No more morning sync that eats an hour across time zones. Everyone posts what they did, what's next and how they're doing — with a one-tap mood pulse. Managers scan the whole team's day in one screen and react where it matters. Unlike chat, it never scrolls away — and it stays searchable.

  • Async check-ins instead of one more meeting
  • A one-tap mood pulse shows how people are really doing — visible only to the member and admins
  • Reactions and @mentions keep feedback flowing across time zones

General / office

Write it, and it actually gets read

Before leaving, fill in what you did, what you learned and tomorrow's plan — blockers included. Managers read an unread-only feed and reply with a one-tap reaction or a comment.

  • Readers see only unread reports in order, marked read automatically
  • Reactions are one tap; comments arrive with @mentions
  • A dedicated blockers field, so managers catch problems early

Restaurants

Hand off the shift from the register

After counting the drawer, the GM logs sales, covers and labor, taps through the QSC check, and notes complaints and whatever the next shift needs. Come morning, the owner starts from the numbers and the handoff — one manager log across every location.

  • Sales, covers and labor hours roll up into charts and CSV
  • The QSC (quality, service, cleanliness) check is tap-only
  • Handoff replies come back as comments that stay for the next shift

Multi-location teams

Every location's day, one feed

Three stores, five crews, one owner. Each location closes its day with a check-in, and the whole operation lines up on one board — who filed, who didn't, and what happened where. No group-chat archaeology the next morning.

  • One submissions board across every location — filed and missing at a glance
  • Numbers from each location roll up automatically, exportable as CSV
  • Reply where it matters with a one-tap reaction or a comment

Field service

Close out the work order by voice

The job is done and the tech's hands are still full of tools. Walking back to the van, they talk through the work performed, parts and serials, and add before-and-after photos. The dispatcher closes and invoices without waiting for them to drive back to the office.

  • Before-and-after photos attach right from the phone
  • Parts, serials and follow-ups are captured in the tech's own words
  • Managers read an unread-only feed and reply in one tap

What you get

Everything a daily-report routine needs

Never start from blank

Industry templates give you the fields — just fill in today's work.

Photo reports

Attach multiple site photos — auto-compressed so they send even on weak connections.

Auto-saved drafts

Drafts save as you go. Get interrupted, pick up where you left off.

Submission matrix

Members × business days — spot missing reports at a glance.

No nagging on days off

Reminders skip holidays, site closures and personal days off — only people who actually owe a report get nudged.

Reactions & comments

One-tap reactions plus comments and @mentions. Writers know they've been read.

Full-text search

Search across every report. Filter by period and member, and save your searches.

Zero-setup rollups & CSV

Numeric fields aggregate into charts automatically. Export CSV anytime.

One mood question

One optional tap after submitting. Visible only to the member and admins.

Clock in / out

Record start and end times as a one-tap field inside the report. Working hours total up automatically.

Mark up photos

Draw lines and arrows directly on a submitted photo and reply in a comment. The original photo is kept as-is.

Confirmation requests

Ask specific members to confirm a new menu or a notice with one tap — and see who hasn't yet, at a glance.

Say it on the photo

Reply in red ink, right on the photo

No more back-and-forth explaining “which part do you mean?”. Draw lines and arrows straight onto a photo in the check-in and send it back with a comment — the paper-and-red-pen habit, kept.

  • Photos attach in bulk and compress automatically — they send even on a weak connection
  • Readers mark the photo up with lines and arrows and reply with a comment
  • The original photo is never overwritten — the marked-up copy is attached separately

AI assist (beta)

Just talk. It takes the shape of a report.

Spend a minute or two before you leave the site talking about your day. AI shapes it into your report's fields and only asks short follow-ups for what's missing. Managers get a summary of the day's submissions.

Your crew

Speak to fill it in

  • Tap the mic once and say what you did today, in your own words
  • If a field is missing, AI asks a short follow-up right there
  • What you said only fills the form — you still review and submit, as always

Managers

AI daily summary

  • A quick summary of the day's submissions, per person and for the whole team
  • Highlights and concerns shown separately, so nothing slips past
  • Mood answers are left out — only the report text and numbers are used

AI assist is offered as a beta feature. All AI output is a draft and is never submitted or shared without your review.

Why “Zen”

Born from the Japanese nippō

In Japan, teams have closed every workday with a short written report — the nippō — for decades. It is how crews stay aligned, managers stay close to the work, and every day ends with the team on the same page.

Zen Daily Report is that discipline, rebuilt for how field work happens now: you say your day, and it becomes the record.

Crafted in Tokyo, Japan

Pricing

One plan. Everyone gets everything

Zen Daily Report

$5/ userper month

Minimum 5 seats ($25/month)

  • Every feature included — one single plan
  • 14-day free trial, no credit card required
  • Add or remove members anytime
  • Export your data as CSV anytime

There's no free tier. In exchange, there are no feature gates and no upsell tiers — one plan with everything in it.

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Frequently asked questions

Do we need to install a mobile app?
No. It runs in the phone's browser. Add it to the home screen and it opens in one tap.
Is there a free plan?
No — instead there's a 14-day free trial with every feature and no credit card. Decide after you've tried it for real.
Can teams smaller than 5 use it?
Yes. Billing simply starts at 5 seats ($25/month).
How much setup is needed?
Enter your company name and pick an industry — the template comes preloaded and rollups need zero configuration. Adding members is one shared link.
What happens to our data if we cancel?
Cancelling stops the billing — it doesn't erase anything. Your workspace and reports stay, so you can export your numbers as CSV or pick up right where you left off. If you want your data gone, delete your account in Settings; when the last member leaves, the organization's data is permanently deleted.
How about security?
Traffic is encrypted and data is isolated per organization. Only authorized members of your organization can see your reports.

Give it 14 days with your team.

Minutes from sign-up to the first check-in. No credit card — every feature included.

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