We got tired of writing the same action item.

Retros.ai started with a frustration most teams will recognise. We ran retrospectives, we wrote down what we would fix, and then we ran the next project and the same three problems came back. The retro from last time was archived somewhere. The actions had no owner. Nobody remembered that deployment pain had come up four retros in a row, because nothing was keeping count.

The tools did not help. They were built for the meeting: sticky notes, timers, a dot-voting round and a PDF export at the end. The hour was well facilitated. The months in between were not.

So we built the part that was missing. Retros.ai keeps a persistent record of every retrospective a team runs, carries open actions forward until someone closes them and tells you when a problem is recurring rather than new. Every retro opens with what you said you would fix last time and whether you did. That is the whole idea: retrospectives that remember, so your team does not have to.

We built it first for consultancies and agencies, where teams re-form for every engagement and the lessons from one project rarely make it to the next. It works just as well for product and engineering teams running sprint retros and incident reviews. The formats are familiar. The memory is what is new.

For a consultancy the problem is worse. Each client project is its own team with its own retros, so a problem that has burned five engagements looks, from inside any one of them, like it happened once.

We built the product around a single sentence a delivery lead should be able to say to a partner: this has come up on 5 of our 7 engagements, we tried to fix it twice, and here are the cards.