The space between your 1:1s.

Vaelo is a shared workspace for any two people who meet 1:1 — goals, a joint agenda, to-dos and a regular check-in, all in one private page. It fills up between your meetings, so the hour you spend together is worth something.

In 4 days · Thu, Mar 12 · 10:00

5 things to talk about

Both of you have added to the agenda

Open this 1:1

How we're arriving

L Lena you
calm Good week — the report finally clicked.
S Sam
tired Long release week. Still want this hour.

On the agenda

1 of 5 discussed
Topic

Handing the weekly customer report over to me — what do you still want to review?

LLena
Win

Lena ran her first discovery interview solo. It went well.

SSam

What goes wrong today

The tool is usually the reason it stops.

01

Tools feel cold, corporate, and imposed, creating distance rather than trust.

Nobody opens a performance tool on a Tuesday because they want to.

02

Check-ins with tools like mural or miro become cluttered and make goal progress hard to track.

A wall of sticky notes is a snapshot, not a thread.

03

No support across the full goal journey: defining, setting, and achieving goals.

Writing the goal is the easy part. The next eleven weeks aren't.

04

Goals quickly fade from memory instead of staying visible and actionable.

By week three the goal lives in a doc nobody has opened since.

Everything the week leaves behind.

Progress is what's done. Confidence is how it feels.

55%

Three goals in flight

Progress is what's done. Confidence is how it feels.

1 on track 1 a bit shaky 1 at risk
60%

Own the weekly customer report end to end

On track by April 3 In focus

Next: pull March numbers and draft the summary

80%

Run a discovery interview without support

A bit shaky
Worth talking about: progress looks good but confidence is a bit shaky. Already flagged on the agenda.
20%

Present once at the team review

At risk 12 days left

Next: pick which project to walk through

Two goals in the spotlight. The rest can wait.

What are we pushing this week?

Spotlight 1–2 goals to anchor this conversation.

1 of 2
1

Own the weekly customer report end to end

Next: pull March numbers and draft the summary

On track

Run a discovery interview without support

Next: write the interview guide

A bit shaky

Present once at the team review

No next step yet

At risk
Cancel Set this week's focus

What you promised each other, on a board.

Backlog

2
Read the pricing research doc before Thursday
L
Set up a shadow session with support
S

Doing

2
Pull March numbers and draft the summary
Next step Due Wed
Write the interview guide
Discovery interview

Done

3
Book the customer call
Share notes from the release retro
Send the recap email

How we're arriving, before we start.

How are you arriving today?

One tap, before the 1:1. Both of you do it — nobody has to guess.

great
happy
calm
okay
tired
anxious
stressed
sad
Add a word about why (optional) Check in as calm

Every session, kept. Nothing to write up.

How the last six weeks felt

Lena Sam
Jan 30Feb 6Feb 13Feb 20Feb 27Mar 6
05 Mar

Handover, and a first solo interview

6 things discussed·3 to-dos closed
Lena ran her first discovery interview solo — and got a quote we're still using.
Agreed the report moves over after one more shadowed run. Sam takes the stakeholder ping, Lena owns the numbers.

Goals that moved

Own the weekly customer report end to end +20
Run a discovery interview without support +30

Where all of it comes together.

In 4 days · Thu, Mar 12 · 10:00

5 things to talk about

Both of you have added to the agenda

Open this 1:1

How we're arriving

L Lena you
calm Good week — the report finally clicked.
S Sam
tired Long release week. Still want this hour.

On the agenda

1 of 5 discussed
Topic

Handing the weekly customer report over to me — what do you still want to review?

LLena
Win

Lena ran her first discovery interview solo. It went well.

SSam

Two seats

Just the two of you. That's the whole point.

One workspace, two seats — intern and manager. No HR dashboard, no skip-level view, no export into a review cycle. It stays warm because nobody else is reading it.

L S Lena, intern · Sam, manager

Four minutes to set up.

And only one of you has to do it — the other just opens a link.

STEP 01

Set the rhythm

A date and a cadence — weekly, fortnightly, monthly. Everything in Vaelo flows around your next 1:1.

STEP 02

Fill the space between

Goals, agenda items, to-dos, a mood. Whenever it happens, from either side.

STEP 03

Meet, then close the loop

Walk the agenda, move the goals, name a win. The session seals itself into your history.

Start the space between.

Sign in with a link, pick your seat, invite the other one. Everything starts empty — it fills up with your week.

Start now