How do I set up a weekly 1-on-1 cadence?
Real 1-on-1s, not status updates. Personalized agendas, never missed.
You'd think this needs Lattice and a manual prep ritual every Sunday — Astra runs the whole cadence including personalized agendas pulled from each person's actual work.
The short answer
Astra sets up a weekly 1-on-1 cadence in 30 minutes and runs the recurring ops indefinitely. She books 30-min recurring slots in Google Calendar for each direct report (rotating times to spread load), generates a personalized agenda 2 hours before each meeting from that person's last 7 days of work — GitHub PRs, Linear tickets shipped/blocked, Slack thread sentiment, recent customer interactions — and drops it in a per-person Notion doc. During the meeting you can take notes in chat or just talk; afterward she captures action items, assigns owners and dates, and re-surfaces them next week if they're not done. Topics rotate so you're not just doing status: career growth (week 1), feedback both directions (week 2), blockers (week 3), strategic context (week 4). After 8 weeks she'll show you a per-report engagement trend so you can spot disengagement before it becomes a resignation.
How Astra actually does it
- 1Book the recurring slots
30-min weekly 1-on-1s per direct report in Google Calendar, spread across the week (no Mondays before 11am, no Fridays after 3pm), rotated quarterly to avoid groove fatigue.
Google Calendar - 2Generate personalized agendas
2h before each meeting: pull that person's last 7 days from GitHub, Linear, Slack mentions. Cluster into 'wins / blockers / questions' and add 1 rotating topic (growth/feedback/blockers/strategy).
GitHubLinearSlackNotion - 3Capture during the meeting
You take notes in chat or talk freely while she listens (Granola transcript). She structures everything into the per-person Notion doc with action items extracted automatically.
GranolaNotion - 4Track action items
Action items get owners + dates. Day before next 1-on-1, she checks status — done items get celebrated, undone items get re-surfaced with a 'still relevant?' prompt.
Linear - 5Trend engagement
After 8 weeks, weekly Lark report flags any report whose meeting energy, GitHub velocity, or Slack participation has declined 20%+. Early disengagement signal.
What it looks like in chat
Recurring 1-on-1s in Google Calendar with 2h-prior personalized Notion agendas pulling from real work, structured notes, and action item tracking week-over-week.
Weekly per direct report, ongoing. Quarterly rotation of meeting times. 8-week engagement trend reports.
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I sometimes need to skip 1-on-1s — is that ok?
Skip up to 1 in 4. More than that signals deprioritization to your report. If you skip, Astra auto-reschedules within the same week and sends a personal note from you ('apologies, moved to Thursday — your update was solid this week, here's what I noticed'). She won't let one slip silently.
What if my report doesn't use GitHub or Linear?
She works with whatever signal you have. For non-engineering reports she pulls from Notion docs, Slack thread participation, calendar density, and customer interactions. Less precise than code data but the structure (wins / blockers / rotating topic) still works.
Can my reports see the agendas before the meeting?
Yes — recommended. She can share the Notion doc with the report 1 hour before so they can add their own topics. Two-way agendas make 1-on-1s 2-3x more productive. Default off (your agenda only); flip to two-way when you're ready.
What do you mean by 'rotating topic'?
Every 1-on-1 has 1 dedicated discussion beyond status: week 1 career growth (where do you want to be in 12mo, what skill are we building), week 2 mutual feedback (what should I do differently, what should you), week 3 blockers (org-level, not ticket-level), week 4 strategic context (where the company is going, what they need to know). Prevents the meeting from becoming a recurring status check.
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