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The Weekly Recap That Hands Each Teammate Their Real Week

Every Friday, MARA hands each teammate an honest recap of what they actually moved — the ready list for their own weekly report. MARA preps the truth; the person still writes and confirms it. The manager gets one fair team view everyone can check.

Client: Marketing Team · Role: Automation Engineer · Year: · Stack: n8n · Slack · Asana

The story

The before: Writing an honest weekly report meant rebuilding your week from memory. A manager's real read meant scrolling each person's Asana by hand — the one who comments all day looks busy, the quiet one moving work looks idle.

The turn: So MARA does it every Friday. Each person gets a recap of what they genuinely moved, ready for their own report, and the manager gets one fair view of the whole team.

How it works

  1. The Week: MARA pulls the week's tickets and reads each one's history — counting what a person actually moved and finished, not just what they touched.
  2. Score + Rank: A fixed formula filters the noise: steady progress beats chatter, each day is capped, and only tickets you truly worked make your list. No AI, same read weekly.
  3. Your Recap: Each person gets a private Slack DM of their real week. MARA hands you the honest list; you still write and confirm your own report.
  4. Team Sheet: The manager gets one fair, at-a-glance view of the whole team, and each person can check their own row is right.

Most activity trackers reward whoever's loudest — a burst of comments reads as "busy." This one credits the opposite: work that genuinely moved forward, so the person quietly shipping outranks the one just talking about it.

What changed

what did I actually move this week? who's busy, and who's just loud? did the quiet ones get credit?

The numbers: ~12 recaps — one honest read each, every Friday.

MARA's end-of-week recap in Slack, listing what one teammate moved, grouped into in progress, for review and done
Your week, already assembled.

Fair questions

will it reward whoever comments the most?

No — comments aren't the signal. It counts real movement on a ticket: moved forward, finished, and caps each day. Chatter still gets an honest read. (from the build)

what if my recap misses something?

It's a starting point — you write your own report from it and can fix your row on the team sheet. Some work, a file drop or a due-date tweak, doesn't register, so it's honest, not perfect. (from the honest limit)

does the quiet person get shamed?

Never publicly — a quiet week gets a private, kind check-in and a subtle note on the team sheet, never a call-out in front of everyone.

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