Executive updates drafted from the work itself.
Your sponsor gets a short update built from what changed: work finished with its proof, what’s moving next, what the team is clearing, and what’s waiting on them. A person on your team approves it before it goes.
Why status updates take a morning
Writing an update for an executive means rebuilding the week: the task tool, the shared drive, the chat threads, the meeting notes. Then translating all of it into something a busy person reads in a minute. By the time it’s written, part of it is already out of date.
And the reply is still “so are we on track?”, because the update listed activity instead of answering that.
How Unblockd handles it
Updates come from the project record, so the team keeps the work current and the update follows.
- Drafted from what changedOn Team, each weekday Unblockd drafts an update covering what changed since the last one your sponsor received: deliverables accepted, work finished with its proof, what’s moving next, what’s in the way, and decisions waiting on them. Internal tasks and notes stay out.
- You approve itRead the draft, add an opening line if you want, then approve it, hold it, or skip it. An admin can choose to have updates send on their own a set time after drafting; that stays off until they turn it on.
- A weekly digest for the wider groupAny project can also send a weekly digest: deliverables, changes, and asks in one email. It goes out after someone on the team approves it, on every plan.
- Their page answers “are we on track”Every update links to the sponsor’s page, which opens on progress against deliverables, then what needs them, then what’s in the way. It looks the same on every project.
Where it fits
A good fit
- Executives who want one short read a week instead of another meeting.
- Internal programs with a sponsor and a steering group who each need the same facts.
Use something else for
- Budget and spend reporting. Unblockd tracks deliverables, evidence, and asks; keep finances in the tool that owns them.
Questions
- How often do updates go out?
- On Team, drafts arrive each weekday and send only when someone approves them, unless an admin turned on automatic sending. The weekly digest is on every plan.
- Can my AI assistant write the note?
- Yes. A connected assistant can write the update’s opening line, and Team’s built-in AI can draft it too. A person on your team still approves the send.
- What do people who only follow along see?
- Viewers see the same page and can ask a question, but they can’t answer asks or say the work looks good.
- Do updates show task counts?
- No. Sponsors see progress against deliverables, with the proof behind it, never a count of tasks.