Why InRoots exists
Standups became noise. Metrics became politics. Managers hovered to feel informed and nobody believed the number.
The idea
When the whole team sees the same scorecard, people manage themselves and the manager finally gets to lead. InRoots turns a one-line check-in into verified progress, fair goals and a score anyone can explain, with an assistant that coaches from the person's own work instead of a generic playbook.
The rule we build by
An AI productivity app, not a monitoring tool. No agents, no silent screenshots; the one optional capture feature is off by default and requires the employee's signed consent. The score is arithmetic anyone can audit; the AI reads, verifies, explains and suggests. Every claim on this site traces to a feature that exists in the product today, and every number on this site comes from the code.
Where it comes from
InRoots grew out of an engine that has been running a real organisation's daily operations since June 2026: 448 API routes, 64 scheduled jobs, 16 AI providers, one container. The scoring rules were argued over with the people being scored, and the changelog records what each argument changed.
What we believe about AI at work
- A model may parse, summarise, route and explain; a person decides anything that touches a strike, pay or employment
- Every automated decision carries a confidence and a reason, and can be undone
- The model you use is your choice, and a local one is always an option
- Your data trains your instance, never ours
How we make product decisions
A rule that moves anyone's score is dated in the changelog with the reason it changed. When the numbers and the people disagreed, the rule was wrong more often than the people: that is how coordination items stopped counting as delivery, how a week on leave became a gap instead of a zero, and how a confirmed long day came to be credited in full. We would rather ship a correction than defend a number.
The name
InRoots reads two ways: inroads, the progress a team makes, and in roots, rooted inside your own walls. Both are the point.
Contact
sales@inroots.ai for demos and licensing, support@inroots.ai for customers, security@inroots.ai for vulnerability reports.