Ren AI is an AI app for the conversations between people at work. It lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams, with a web app for the wider view. It notices when a conversation isn't happening but should, such as feedback you've been putting off or a pattern nobody has named, and helps you work out what to say and when. It's built on the Accountability Dial™ and made by Good Authority, Inc. You can try it free at tryren.com.

The Ren app is a thinking partner for hard conversations at work. You can use it inside Slack or Microsoft Teams, or on the web at tryren.com. Describe a situation, like a teammate who keeps missing handoffs, and Ren helps you tell how serious it really is and drafts the first sentence. You can also send someone a Mention: one sentence, said early, often praise. There's no install needed to try it on the homepage.

Yes. Ren works in Slack and in Microsoft Teams. It only sees the channels and group conversations it's been added to, plus your own private conversation with Ren. It cannot read direct messages between people. It also connects to Google Calendar and Zoom on every plan, including Free.

Anyone who works with other people. Managers use it to prepare for hard 1:1s. Individual contributors use it for peer feedback and to raise things with their own manager. Tech leads and project owners use it to hold people accountable without having authority over them. Senior leaders use it to see, in aggregate, whether the conversations are happening across the company.

How much does Ren cost?

Ren is free to start, with no credit card. The Team plan is $49 per person per month at any size and opens with a 30-day free trial. The Business plan is $7,995 per month flat for up to 300 people and adds a guided kickoff, a quarterly workshop, office hours, and SSO. Over 300 people, pricing is set around the rollout.

Yes, by architecture rather than policy. Ren cannot read direct messages between people. Your conversations with Ren stay private to you and never go to your manager or HR. The company-wide view is aggregate and never traceable to a person. Ren is SOC 2 Type II, hosted in the US, masks personal information before it reaches a language model, and has zero-retention terms with its model providers.

How is Ren different from ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a general assistant and tends to tell you what you want to hear. Ren is built for one job, the conversations between people, on a specific method, the Accountability Dial. It sees the context of the channels it's in, so you don't start from zero. In an independent blind study, Ren scored 4.22 out of 5 on pushback and ownership, compared with 2.84 for ChatGPT, 2.68 for Copilot, and 2.48 for Gemini.

Ren is made by Good Authority, Inc. It was founded by Jonathan Raymond, author of Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For, former CEO of EMyth, and creator of the Accountability Dial™.

How Ren works

What is Ren? The AI app for the conversations you keep putting off

Ren is an AI app that lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams. It notices the conversations at work that aren't happening, like the feedback you've been sitting on or the pattern nobody has named, and helps you work out what to say and when. It's built on the Accountability Dial™, a method taught to more than 100,000 people leaders, and it's made by Good Authority, Inc., founded by Jonathan Raymond. Ren is free to start.

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People search for Ren as Ren AI, the Ren app, or Ren for Slack. They all mean the same product, made by Good Authority, Inc. and found at tryren.com.

What Ren does

Most of what goes wrong between people at work isn't a big blow-up. It's the small thing nobody said: the deadline that slipped three times, the teammate who went quiet, the thank-you that never got sent. By the time anyone speaks up, the moment is gone and it's become a hard conversation.

Ren works on that gap. It does three things:

Notices the conversations that aren't happening. In the Slack and Teams channels you add it to, Ren picks up patterns like repeated slips, unanswered asks, and work that deserved credit.
Helps you tell how serious it is. Ren uses the Accountability Dial™: five stages, from a light one-sentence Mention to a clear Limit. Most situations need stage one, not a big talk.
Helps you find the first sentence. Ren drafts what to say in your voice, then asks the harder question: why this one is difficult for you.

A Mention, the simplest way to start

The easiest thing to try is a Mention: one sentence, said early, about something you noticed. Often it's praise. On the Ren homepage, you describe what happened, Ren helps you find the words, and you get a link to send. The person opens it and sees your message, with a place to reply.

No signup or install is needed to send one.

Who uses Ren

If you are…	Ren helps you…
A manager	Prepare for the 1:1 you've been putting off, at the right level of directness
An individual contributor	Give peer feedback, or raise something with your own manager
A tech lead or project owner	Hold people accountable when they don't report to you
A CEO or senior leader	See, in aggregate, whether the conversations are happening across the company

It's the same Ren in every seat.

Where it lives

Slack and Microsoft Teams, where the work already happens
A web app for the wider view
Google Calendar and Zoom integrations, on every plan including Free

Privacy

Ren's privacy boundary is built into how it works, not just stated in a policy:

It cannot read direct messages between people.
Your conversations with Ren are private to you, never shared with your manager or HR.
The company-wide view is aggregate, never traceable to an individual.
SOC 2 Type II, US hosting, personal information masked before it reaches a language model, and zero-retention terms with model providers.

The details are public on the trust page.

Pricing

Free: no credit card, the whole product up to a conversation cap.
Team: $49 per person per month at any size, with a 30-day free trial.
Business: $7,995 per month flat for up to 300 people, with a guided kickoff, quarterly workshops, and SSO.
Enterprise: over 300 people.

Full detail is on the pricing page.

How Ren compares

vs. ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini: general assistants are built to be agreeable. In an independent blind study, Ren scored 4.22/5 on pushback and ownership, against 2.84, 2.68, and 2.48.
vs. BetterUp and CoachHub: human coaching goes deep for a small, often senior group. Ren is there every day for everyone. See Ren vs. BetterUp and Ren vs. CoachHub.
vs. Lattice, 15Five, and Culture Amp: those tools measure. Ren helps with the conversation that follows. See all comparisons.

Who makes Ren

Ren is made by Good Authority, Inc. It was founded by Jonathan Raymond, author of Good Authority, former CEO of EMyth, and creator of the Accountability Dial™, which he taught for ten years before it became software.

Start here: Try a Mention on the homepage · How Ren works · What is the Accountability Dial? · Pricing

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