Cooperly vs Steady
Cooperly is for founder-led companies where work stalls between people more often than inside a repo. Steady turns commits, tickets and check-ins into AI digests of what moved; Cooperly shows which decision, commitment or handoff has no owner and keeps the team’s agreement in view.
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Old rule
Summarise what everyone did this week.
New rule
Show who owns what nobody picked up.
A digest of merged PRs and closed tickets answers “what happened?”. The founder’s question is usually different: which promise slipped, and whose is it now. Cooperly answers that one, and the team lead confirms every fact it uses.
Read what the work already shows
Decisions, commitments and blockers already sit in Slack channels, ClickUp chat and Asana tasks. Cooperly proposes them as team facts; the team lead confirms each one.
Ask only what tools can’t tell
Profiles, Pulse and Fundamentals add how people work, what feels stuck and which agreement needs another conversation.
Your agents prepare. People decide.
ChatGPT, Claude and your other approved tools read the picture through MCP. The team agrees the owner and the next step.
Steady vs Cooperly: features and fit
Cooperly is built for founder-led companies before management becomes an HR programme. Compare that job with the one Steady is designed to do.
| Dimension | Cooperly | Steady |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | Decisions, commitments and blockers between people. | Starts from activity: commits, PRs, tickets, meetings and check-ins. Cooperly starts from who agreed to what and where it stalled. |
| Sources | Slack channels, ClickUp chat and Asana task text, plus notes you upload. | Reads GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Linear, Asana, calendars, Zoom and more; Slack and Teams are delivery channels. Cooperly reads team conversation, where commitments are usually made. |
| Human check | The team lead confirms, corrects or rejects each proposed fact. | Echoes answer from the data each person can already see. Cooperly adds a lead’s confirmation before a fact enters the team picture. |
| What people add | Coop Profiles, Pulse and Fundamentals. | Smart check-ins with activity pre-attached. Cooperly asks what tools cannot show: how people work and what feels stuck. |
| Output | An owner, an agreement and a roadmap step. | Daily digests, team summaries, goal stories and scheduled Echo answers. Cooperly turns the finding into an agreed next step for named people. |
| Goals | Goals give context to the team conversation and roadmap. | Goal Stories track progress against goals. Cooperly uses goals to ask who owns the dependency in the way. |
| AI access | MCP for ChatGPT, Claude and other approved clients; read-only by default, Claude and Codex write after a confirmed preview. | Publishes an MCP server that reads digests and check-ins and can create updates. Cooperly’s MCP carries confirmed facts, profiles and agreements. |
| Best fit | Founder-led teams of 10–50 where work routes through a few people. | Distributed teams across time zones, often engineering-heavy. Cooperly is built for the founder whose company has outgrown their own view. |
| Price shape | £240/year up to 10 people, £948/year for 11–50. | Credits, not seats: plans start at $25 a month for 500 credits. Cooperly’s price is fixed for the team size. |
Starting point
- Cooperly
- Decisions, commitments and blockers between people.
- Steady
- Starts from activity: commits, PRs, tickets, meetings and check-ins. Cooperly starts from who agreed to what and where it stalled.
Sources
- Cooperly
- Slack channels, ClickUp chat and Asana task text, plus notes you upload.
- Steady
- Reads GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Linear, Asana, calendars, Zoom and more; Slack and Teams are delivery channels. Cooperly reads team conversation, where commitments are usually made.
Human check
- Cooperly
- The team lead confirms, corrects or rejects each proposed fact.
- Steady
- Echoes answer from the data each person can already see. Cooperly adds a lead’s confirmation before a fact enters the team picture.
What people add
- Cooperly
- Coop Profiles, Pulse and Fundamentals.
- Steady
- Smart check-ins with activity pre-attached. Cooperly asks what tools cannot show: how people work and what feels stuck.
Output
- Cooperly
- An owner, an agreement and a roadmap step.
- Steady
- Daily digests, team summaries, goal stories and scheduled Echo answers. Cooperly turns the finding into an agreed next step for named people.
Goals
- Cooperly
- Goals give context to the team conversation and roadmap.
- Steady
- Goal Stories track progress against goals. Cooperly uses goals to ask who owns the dependency in the way.
AI access
- Cooperly
- MCP for ChatGPT, Claude and other approved clients; read-only by default, Claude and Codex write after a confirmed preview.
- Steady
- Publishes an MCP server that reads digests and check-ins and can create updates. Cooperly’s MCP carries confirmed facts, profiles and agreements.
Best fit
- Cooperly
- Founder-led teams of 10–50 where work routes through a few people.
- Steady
- Distributed teams across time zones, often engineering-heavy. Cooperly is built for the founder whose company has outgrown their own view.
Price shape
- Cooperly
- £240/year up to 10 people, £948/year for 11–50.
- Steady
- Credits, not seats: plans start at $25 a month for 500 credits. Cooperly’s price is fixed for the team size.
Why choose Cooperly as a Steady alternative?
Start with the job you need the system to do.
What stalled rarely shows up in a digest.
Cooperly reads the thread where a customer promise was made and never assigned. It proposes that as a commitment, the lead confirms it, and the team names the owner.
Steady distils activity from code, tickets and meetings into daily digests and summaries. A promise made to a customer in chat never appears in that activity log, and that is where Cooperly looks. Source for What stalled rarely shows up in a digest.
Choose Cooperly when the bottleneck is ownership between people. Choose Steady when your team needs a shared view of activity across many engineering tools.
Scheduled answers, or an agreed next step?
Cooperly’s picture is there when ChatGPT or Claude needs it, through MCP. People use it to prepare the conversation and agree the change.
Steady’s Echoes answer recurring questions on a weekly or monthly schedule, with sources. Cooperly’s answer is followed by an owner and a date the team agreed, which the next Pulse checks. Source for Scheduled answers, or an agreed next step?
Choose Cooperly when you need the answer to become an owned agreement. Choose Steady when scheduled answers about activity are the job.
Twelve PRs merged, and the customer call was never booked.
The digest showed a busy week: twelve PRs, eight tickets closed. The promised integration call was never booked, because sales thought engineering would set it up. Cooperly finds that commitment in Slack and the team gives it one owner.
Read the open commitments
Read this week’s Pulse and the open commitments.
Hear both sides
Ask the two people involved how they read the handoff.
Agree the owner
Agree an owner and check it at the next Pulse.
Give the same trusted context to the AI tools your team already uses.
Cooperly makes selected profiles, signals, goals and agreements available through MCP. Use that context in ChatGPT, Claude or another approved client while Cooperly keeps the permissions. Claude changes Cooperly only after you confirm a preview. AI helps with preparation; people keep the judgement.
Context Cooperly gathers
Cooperly
People Context Layer
The AI tools you already use
Claude
Claude chat and code access
ChatGPT
Contextual chat and commands
AI Agents via MCP
Linear, Notion, and compatible clients
When to choose Cooperly
Cooperly shows who owns the work nobody picked up. Steady summarises activity from code, tickets and check-ins into digests and AI answers.
Choose
Cooperly
- Promises made in chat keep falling between people.
- You want a lead to confirm what counts as a team fact.
- You want one fixed price as the team grows to 50.
Choose
Steady
- Your team works across many time zones and needs a daily activity digest.
- Most of the work lives in code and ticket tools you want summarised.
- Usage-based pricing suits you better than a team price.
Steady vs Cooperly pricing
Your plan stays flat as your team grows.
One flat price for this team size. Full Cooperly access included: up to 10 people at the Teams rate, then up to 50 people across five teams at the Company rate.
Cooperly
For Companies
per person / month equivalent
Steady
Smallest credit plan
Smallest published credit plan · your usage sets the total
Keep people context and the review rhythm connected across several teams as the company grows. Up to 5 teams, up to 50 people. MCP and approved integrations are included.
Steady charges for credits, not users: the smallest monthly plan is $25 for 500 credits, and a check-in costs one credit per recipient. Steady does not publish a team-size estimate, so this shows the floor. Cooperly is a flat team-size price with MCP included.
Official Steady pricingSteady’s cost follows how many check-ins, summaries and Echo answers you deliver. Cooperly’s cost follows team size only, so you can predict it before the first month.
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Questions about Cooperly and Steady
Cooperly reads team conversation and task text, so it works for sales, operations and product teams as well as engineering. It looks for decisions, commitments and blockers, and the lead confirms each one.
Cooperly does not produce status updates. It keeps a confirmed picture of who owns what and where work is stuck, and asks people only for Pulse and profile answers that tools cannot show.
Cooperly gives ChatGPT, Claude and other approved clients the team picture through MCP. Ask which commitment has no owner or what changed in a team, and the answer uses confirmed facts. Access is read-only by default.
Connect Cooperly to ChatGPTCooperly charges a flat team-size price: Up to 10 people: £240/year (£20/month billed yearly). 11–50 people: £948/year (£79/month billed yearly). MCP and approved integrations are included in both team-size plans. Steady uses credits, starting at $25 a month for 500, so its total depends on usage.
Compare the pricesCooperly reads Slack channels, ClickUp chat and Asana task text, plus meeting notes and retros you upload. Linear and Notion connect for roadmap sync and status, not for fact extraction.
Cooperly does a different job, so both can run: Steady for activity digests, Cooperly for ownership and team agreements. Start with one team where work keeps stalling between people.
Find the promise with no owner before the customer asks about it.
Try Cooperly with a real team.
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