Six surfaces. Quietly connected.
Regard is one tool with six distinct surfaces — each small enough to understand, each connected to the others through your journal. Nothing reaches a team member's profile without your review.
Journal
Daily writing that becomes structured memory.
Regard's journal is deliberately low-friction. Open it, write what's on your mind about your team, your projects, your decisions — in your own voice. Use @mentions for people and #project tags. The editor stays out of your way.
When you finish, every entry flows through a parsing pipeline. Regard reads the entry and pulls out discrete observations — who it's about, what kind of observation it is, what sentiment it carries. Each observation lands in a triage queue: your review before anything becomes part of anyone's profile.
From triage you accept, edit, merge, or discard each observation. Only accepted items flow to a team member's profile, the project notebook, or Conversation prep. Nothing reaches a team member's profile without your deliberate click.
- Rich text with @mentions and #project tags
- Automatic categorization into Strengths, Conversation prep, Commitments, Projects, and Incidents
- Always-reviewable triage — nothing lands without your click
- Merging for repeated observations about the same theme
- Linked context — every observation points back to the journal entry it came from
Team
A quietly connected profile for each person you lead.
Every team member has a profile — a place that holds the observations you've made, the 1-on-1s you've had, the commitments you've made to them, and the projects they've worked on. It's the thing you wish you had before every important conversation.
1-on-1 preparation happens here too. When a meeting is coming up, Regard surfaces recent observations, open commitments, and any notes you've jotted toward the conversation. After the meeting, your follow-ups become tracked commitments with due dates and follow-through.
Skills-based reviews replace the usual rubric grid with something more humane: a radar of strengths across a small set of leadership dimensions, scored across cycles so you can see real change over time. AI-assisted comment drafting is optional and always editable.
- Living profile per person — observations, meetings, commitments, projects
- 1-on-1 hub with pre-meeting briefs drawn from recent context
- Commitments with follow-through, not scoreboards
- Skills radar reviews across cycles, showing real change over time
- Sentiment-coded timeline — green, amber, gray, red, not red-heavy
Growth
Direction for each person. Preparation for each conversation.
Focus is the surface for personal growth. Each direct report sets a personal focus — a skill to build, a behavior to practice, a direction to head — breaks it into milestones, logs progress, and raises a flag when they hit a snag or get blocked. You see their focuses from your side and can add comments, propose milestones, or just read along.
Focus is deliberately separate from the rest of the system. Focus content never flows into reviews, skill scores, or performance documents. It's a growth workspace, not evaluation material.
Liaison is the other half. Before a hard conversation, describe the situation to Regard and get a structured framework — what to lead with, what tone to strike, what to avoid. It's built only from what the team member has shared about how they want to be communicated with — never from your private observations.
- Personal focus for each direct report
- Visibility tiers — private, shared with manager, or visible to team
- AI helpers — breaking down milestones and anticipating blockers
- Liaison built only from what the team member shares
- Growth space, not performance review — strict data separation
Mentor
A note from your Mentor each week. Just for you.
Most management tools point outward — at your team, your projects, your notebooks. Mentor points the other direction. Once a week, on Sunday evening, Regard hands you a single note that reflects on the work you did. What you wrote about. Who you paid attention to. The 1-on-1 you kept moving. The strengths that quietly stopped showing up.
The note is built from patterns Regard can see in your own data — your journal cadence, your meeting follow-through, the spread of your attention across your team, the rhythm of your commitments. Each pattern is hand-authored, paired with a short framework from the leadership toolbox, and grounded in your evidence: counts, dates, names you wrote down yourself.
Each pattern comes from your data, not from guesswork. Counts, dates, names you wrote down — checked against rules drawn from a leadership toolbox. That makes the note honest about what it saw, and easy to push back on when it's wrong. You can mark each pattern as rings true, off, or already on it, and add a private annotation.
Most importantly, Mentor is yours alone. It is the only surface in Regard that is structurally manager-private — Mentor data never appears in team member profiles, review cycles, admin reports, or any export not scoped to you. The boundary is enforced in code, not by policy.
- One note per week, delivered Sunday evening
- Action and Cadence patterns drawn from your journal, meetings, and follow-through
- Hand-authored frames with citations from the leadership toolbox — no AI-generated narrative
- React and annotate — rings true, off, already on it, plus a private annotation
- Manager-private by design — never visible in team member profiles, reviews, or exports
Culture
Anonymous signal. Quiet recognition.
Culture Heartbeat is an anonymous round of questions you send your team on a schedule you set. Regard enforces a three-response minimum before showing any result. Anonymous by design — responses can't be traced back to anyone.
Recognition is the warmer side of culture. Team members send each other small metaphorical stickers — a cairn, a keystone, a fire extinguisher, a high-five. It's not gamification. It's a way to notice each other on purpose.
- Heartbeat rounds with configurable questions
- Three-response minimum before results render — enforced in code
- Anonymous by design — responses can't be traced back to anyone
- Recognition wall with metaphorical stickers and themed wallpapers
- Opt-in results sharing with the team
Guardrails
Leadership that respects the weight it carries.
Regard holds real observations about real people. That carries legal and ethical weight, and the tool is designed accordingly.
The first line of defense is a protected-class filter. Every observation extracted from your journal is screened for content touching race, gender, age, religion, disability, and other protected attributes. Sensitive content is never routed to a team member's profile — it's quarantined for your review, with an explicit note about why it was pulled aside.
The second line is an HR-escalation detector. If an extracted observation describes something that belongs in HR territory — harassment claims, safety incidents, serious misconduct — Regard flags it and refuses to let it route to a team member's profile. You're prompted to handle it through the appropriate channel.
The third is retention. Data doesn't sit forever. Journals, extracts, and Conversation prep archive after a configurable period and purge after another. Legal-hold exceptions are explicit. Everything is audit-logged.
- Two-layer protected-class filter on every extract
- HR-escalation detection that blocks routing to team member profiles
- Quarantine system with audit logging
- Two-phase archival and purge with configurable retention and legal-hold
- Complete audit log of admin actions
- Liaison uses only what the team member has shared
Want to see it in use?
Regard is in private beta. We're taking on a small number of managers a month so we can learn with you.