Why we built Currents

Most teams already know the drill: a recurring status meeting where everyone takes turns reading their update out loud, half the room only half-listening because none of it applies to them. Currents replaces that ritual with a simple daily habit — write down what you're working on, see what everyone else is working on, and get back to actually doing the work.

We built it around a few beliefs: visibility shouldn't require a meeting, leaders can only improve what they hear about, and recognizing good work matters as much as tracking it. It starts with your updates. They help your teammates and leaders understand what you're working on, and they help you understand what your teammates are working on. From there, everything else builds on the same habit: polls help leaders understand how you're feeling and what they can improve, shoutouts help a team celebrate its wins and each other, and feedback helps you understand how others think you're doing at all of it. And because a habit only sticks when it meets people where they already work, Currents also connects to your AI assistant, so adding an update or giving a shoutout can happen from wherever you are.

AI is changing who does the work, and it is easy for that to happen invisibly, one person and one subscription at a time. Currents treats AI assistants as part of the team's plan: shared workers that anyone can hand a task to, each defined once as a persona that writes down how it should behave, with a queue everyone can see. Company admins decide which assistants are on, whether each runs on your own AI provider account or on a runner you operate, and which models are allowed, so what a company spends on AI is managed in one place instead of chasing individual usage across every employee.

Org charts are rarely a flat list of teams, and all of that depends on who's around you. So Currents lets you model your company exactly as it's organized — nested divisions, departments, and teams, each with their own admins — so every update, poll, shoutout, and piece of feedback reaches the right people.