You manage a team. You're still guessing how to manage each person on it.
Simpatico writes the manual on managing each person and the team as a whole — then tells you, every week, what your team needs from you.
Free for up to 5 people. No credit card.
The Open Circle — Puts people first and welcomes new ideas.
Supportive — 4 people, Idea-Driven — 2
Logical and Detail-Oriented — 1 person each
Four steps to a Team Playbook.
- 01
Everyone takes the assessment
About twenty minutes each. Every person gets their own Personal User Manual to keep.
- 02
The Team Playbook writes itself
Their manuals combine into one for the team: how you work together, and how each person fits.
- 03
Everyone checks in as they go
Each person logs how the day went — under a minute, at the time, or catching up on the week later.
- 04
The Manager's Playbook updates
Every week: what the team needs from you, what to coach, and where the team stands.
Your team, written down.
The Team Playbook has seven tabs. Five everyone on the team can read. Two are for the manager only — updated weekly.
Team Identity
Who your team is: the working styles you have, the ones you're missing, and where each person lands between fast and steady, structured and flexible, and more.
How We Work Together
How the team likes to communicate — where it agrees, where it's split — and how each person wants to be recognized.
Where We Shine
The strengths your team has the most of, and what each person is best put to work on.
What We Stand For
The values your team shares, counted — never who said what.
How We Work Best
The conditions your team does its best work in, what stress looks like here, what helps people recover, and where preferences collide.
Are We Simpatico?
This week's check-ins: how the team is doing, what changed since last week, where the friction is, and what to focus on.
Manager's Playbook
This week's brief: what your team needs from you, and what to coach.
Where your team stands, and why.
Two things decide it. The assessment shows how alike or different your team's working styles are. Check-ins show how the team is doing right now. Together they put your team in one of four states — and each one calls for a different way to manage.
Thriving
Styles line up, and the check-ins are good. Protect what's working.
Outperforming
Styles differ, and the team is doing well anyway. Celebrate it, and watch for strain — it's holding together on effort.
Untapped Potential
Styles line up, but the check-ins say it isn't landing. Usually the fixable kind: not the people, but the process, the environment, or one point of friction.
Blocked
Styles differ, and the team is struggling. Focus on the friction, support your people.
Wherever your team lands, Simpatico gives you the plan — how to manage your team, this week, so they can do their best work.
Thriving
Styles line up, and the check-ins are good. Protect what's working.
Outperforming
Styles differ, and the team is doing well anyway. Celebrate it, and watch for strain — it's holding together on effort.
Untapped Potential
Styles line up, but the check-ins say it isn't landing. Usually the fixable kind: not the people, but the process, the environment, or one point of friction.
Blocked
Styles differ, and the team is struggling. Focus on the friction, support your people.
Wherever your team lands, Simpatico gives you the plan — how to manage your team, this week, so they can do their best work.
Most team tools are a one-time event.
You take the test, talk about it, and it goes in a drawer. Simpatico keeps going: every week it reads how your team is doing and tells you what to do about it.
Which teams need help right now?
The Organization Report puts your teams on one screen, every week. Whenever there's enough to go on, your organization's admins see where each team stands and how much energy it has left — so they can find the team that's struggling.
Book a free working sessionYour teams on one screen. Each team's Team Status, in any week there's enough to show it.
Energy, team by team. How many people are running on empty.
Hire for the team you have. Before you make an offer, see how a candidate would work with the people they'd actually join.
Three ways to start.
Try it free. Go all in when your team is ready.
Free team
- Up to 5 people. No card.
- Team features unlock once 3 people finish their assessment.
- Everyone gets their Personal User Manual. Boss and Coworker Cheat Sheets unlock at 3.
- Daily check-ins. The Manager's Playbook updates weekly; the Team Playbook monthly.
- One team. No view across teams.
Team trial
- Up to 10 people. No card.
- Unlocks once 6 people finish their assessment.
- The full product — everything updates daily.
- When it ends, you keep your reports. Check-ins and updates stop unless you upgrade.
Playbook
- Up to 25 people per team, plus the manager, who gets a free seat on every team.
- The full Team Playbook, updated daily.
- Every person gets: their Personal User Manual, Work DNA, Boss and Coworker Cheat Sheets, daily check-ins and their Today page, SIA, Trends (coming soon), Interplay with any teammate (coming soon), and their AI ReadMe (coming soon).
- More than one team? Add as many as you need. With at least 2 teams ready and 11 or more people holding seats, your organization gets the Organization Report (coming soon).
A 10-person team is $711 a year. A 20-person team is $1,501.
Get PlaybookSIA is a thinking partner. It makes suggestions and can be wrong — talk the important ones through with people who know your situation.
Teams open soon. We'll email you when they're ready, and now and then about Simpatico.
Can my manager see my answers?
You choose what to share and with whom. Managers and organizations never see an individual's raw answers, check-ins or score — only aggregate team signal. Enforced at the database level, not by a setting.
Joining a team shares two reports. Your manager gets your Boss Cheat Sheet — how to get your best work. Your teammates get your Coworker Cheat Sheet — how to work alongside you. Teammates can also see how the two of you work together. That's what being on the team is for.
The Team Playbook shows your teammates, your manager and your organization's admins how each person on the team likes to work: their work style, where they sit on each slider (one end, the middle or the other end — never a number), their strengths, and how they like to be recognized. Values, stress signs and recovery needs are counted, never named. Your check-ins and your own score stay yours.
Your answers, your check-ins and your own score stay yours. Nothing about where you want your career to go is part of a team account at all.
The two manager-only tabs aren't hidden on the screen — they're stored separately and locked in the database.
And for managers, that's the point. People answer honestly when the boss can't read it back. That's what makes every report on this page worth reading.
How big can a team be?
Up to 25 people per team, plus the manager, who gets a free seat on every team. Bigger group? Run it as several teams — that's what the Organization Report (coming soon) is for.
Does everyone need their own paid account?
No. Playbook covers everyone on the team — one price per person, and the manager is free.
What happens when the trial ends?
You keep your reports. Check-ins and updates stop unless you upgrade.
Someone at my company already started. What now?
Everyone with your work email domain belongs to one organization. If someone's already set it up, you'll get a form to ask to be added, and we'll sort it out with them.
Can I talk to someone first?
Yes. Book a free working session — we walk you and your team through it, live.
Stop guessing how to manage each person on your team.
Free for up to 5 people. No credit card.