An overview of Ren
Ren sits in Slack and Teams, reads the real work, and surfaces the conversations that would actually change something — with a name on each one and a next step. This page covers what it is, what it costs, and what it does with your data. Nothing on it requires a form.
The layer that used to carry this is gone
Most companies have taken a layer of management out over the last three years. The work that layer absorbed — the decisions, the reviews, the conversations someone has to start — didn’t disappear. It got distributed to people who weren’t trained for it.
At the same time the shape of a team changed. Most of the people anyone depends on don’t report to them and never will, and the three-year relationship that used to make a hard conversation survivable almost never happens now.
So feedback gets scarce, credit goes missing, and the cost shows up somewhere else: talent that plateaued unnoticed, effort pointed at the wrong thing, and exits nobody saw coming.
The full argument is at The delayered org.
What Ren actually does
It reads the work, not a form
Ren is in Slack and Teams, with meeting transcripts and calendar context. Nobody fills anything in — it works from the threads, the meetings and what got committed to.
It surfaces the conversation, with a name on it
Each one lands on a board: who it's with, what's worth saying, and where it sits on the Accountability Dial™. Most of them wait there until the person is ready.
It works in every direction
Down to someone you manage, up to your boss, across to a peer you have no authority over. And for naming good work, not only for naming problems.
It coaches nobody's behaviour into a record
What surfaces to leadership is aggregate themes, never the contents of a conversation. There’s no drill-down to an individual and no HRIS integration by design.
It runs on the Accountability Dial™, the five-stage framework from Good Authority that 100,000+ managers have been trained on. Not a discipline ladder — most situations resolve at the first stage, and a good share of it is praise. How the Dial works.
What we can show you
This work is helping us become more resilient as leaders and as an organization. We’re able to have the conversations that matter, even under stress. It changes everything.
In a blind study of 400 conversations across 25 common scenarios, independent evaluators scored Ren 4.22 out of 5.0, against 2.84 for ChatGPT, 2.68 for Copilot and 2.48 for Gemini, on the dimensions that move behaviour. Full methodology.
The Accountability Dial™ methodology has been used by managers at Panasonic, Amazon, Okta, Southwest and McKesson. Panasonic Energy is a Ren customer; the others are methodology engagements.
Cost, data, and the rest
Pricing
Free to start, then $19 for one person or $49 a seat for a team. You pay for the people in it, not per manager — it isn't a manager tool.
How to buy
The buying paths, what a quote contains, and what makes it an order form.
Security & trust
SOC 2 Type II, the sub-processor list, and what Ren can and can’t see.
The agreement
The public MSA every order form incorporates by reference.
Architecture
How the data plane works, and why there's no HRIS integration.
The growth loop
The Enterprise layer for orgs already running a development or metrics programme.
Try it before you decide anything
Free to start, no credit card, and no sales call required. Bring a real situation and see what Ren makes of it.