Every action, decision, and structural change in Nestr is automatically recorded with full context: who did it, when, from which role, and why. No manual logging required.

This gives your organisation a complete, timestamped history of how work gets done and how governance evolves. During reviews, audits, or incident investigations, you can trace any decision back to its source.

For teams deploying AI agents, the audit trail becomes especially valuable. Every agent action is captured in the same system as human work, giving you the traceability that regulators and stakeholders increasingly expect.

Governance meetings are where your organisation's structure evolves. In a dedicated, facilitated session, circle members review and process proposals to create, change, or remove roles, accountabilities, domains, and policies.

Nestr guides your facilitator through the full governance meeting flow: opening round, agenda building from tensions, proposal presentation, clarifying questions, reactions, objections, and integration. Each step keeps the group focused and moving forward.

Unlike tactical meetings (which focus on operational work), governance meetings are about working ON the organisation, not IN it. The decisions made here shape how authority is distributed and how your team collaborates going forward.

Every item in Nestr can be extended with custom fields to capture exactly the data your organisation needs. Add text fields, numbers, dates, dropdowns, checkboxes, or file uploads to any label type.

Custom fields are defined at the label level, so when you create a project label with a "priority" dropdown, every project in your workspace gets that field automatically. This keeps your data consistent and searchable across the board.

Use custom fields to track anything from sprint numbers and cost centres to client references and approval status. Your workspace, your structure, your fields.

Streamline repetitive processes with Nestr's automation capabilities. Set up triggers and actions to automate routine tasks, notifications, and workflows, freeing your team to focus on purposeful work instead of manual overhead.

Connect AI assistants directly to your Nestr workspace through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). AI agents can read your governance structure, create and process tensions, manage work, and act from roles, making powerful agentic workflows possible within your self-organized team.

Keep sensitive work confidential with private projects, meetings, todos, and notes. Control visibility at a granular level so that personal development plans, confidential initiatives, and private reflections stay between the people who need access.

Your AI-powered organizational companion. Nestradamus helps you navigate governance, process tensions, draft proposals, and find information across your workspace, making self-organization more accessible for everyone.

Connect your Discord community with your Nestr workspace. Receive notifications about governance changes, role updates, and important organizational events directly in your Discord channels.

Bridge decentralized governance with operational clarity. Link your DAO to Nestr to combine on-chain decision-making with structured role-based operations, bringing transparency and accountability to decentralized organizations.

Migrate from other platforms or back up your organizational data without friction. Import governance structures from Holaspirit, Glassfrog, or CSV files, and export your complete workspace data whenever you need it.

Automate user lifecycle management with SCIM provisioning. Automatically create, update, and deactivate user accounts in Nestr when changes happen in your identity provider, removing the need for manual onboarding and offboarding.

Secure your workspace with enterprise-grade Single Sign-On. Nestr supports SAML 2.0 authentication, allowing your team to log in through your existing identity provider (Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace, and more) with centralized access control.

Build custom integrations and automate workflows with Nestr's comprehensive REST API. Access your workspace data programmatically, create custom dashboards, sync with external tools, and build bespoke solutions tailored to your organization's needs.

Sometimes you need a private conversation. Nestr's direct messaging lets you reach any colleague instantly for one-on-one discussions that don't belong in a circle feed.

Access your messages from anywhere in Nestr via the messaging tab in the bottom corner. Search for colleagues, start conversations, and get notified when they respond.

While transparency is a core principle of self-organisation, private messaging ensures that sensitive or personal topics can be handled appropriately.

Each circle in Nestr has its own communication feed, keeping conversations focused and relevant. No more wading through company-wide noise to find what matters to your team.

Circle feeds aggregate discussions from within the circle, including conversations happening inside projects and roles, so nothing gets missed. Create topic channels within your circle for further organisation.

This circle-scoped approach to communication mirrors how self-organising teams actually work: information flows within and between circles, not through a single firehose.

Capture meeting notes, decisions, reference material, and documentation directly within the context where it belongs: under a role, circle, or project.

Notes in Nestr aren't separate documents floating in a file system. They live in your organisational structure, so information stays connected to the work it relates to.

Use notes for meeting minutes, onboarding guides, process documentation, or anything your team needs to reference. Rich text formatting keeps content clear and readable.

Every role in Nestr can have its own projects and todos, making work transparent across your organisation. Projects track multi-step outcomes while todos capture individual next actions.

A simple Kanban board shows project status (Current, Waiting, Future, Done) for each role or circle. Nest todos inside projects, add due dates, assign collaborators, and discuss progress in comments.

This isn't just task management. It's work made visible in the context of who is accountable for it. When work lives under roles, everyone can see what's happening without asking.

Labels are what make Nestr come alive. By assigning a label to any nest, you give it meaning, turning it into a role, circle, project, or anything your organisation needs.

Create personal labels visible only to you, or workspace labels shared with your team. Use labels to categorise, filter, and organise work in ways that match how you actually think about it.

Labels power Nestr's search and views, so a well-designed labelling system becomes the foundation for powerful custom dashboards and workflows.

Nestr's search goes far beyond simple text matching. Combine operators to find exactly what you need: filter by label, assignee, completion status, due date, and more, all in a single query.

Search across all your workspaces at once, or scope to a specific circle. Find all your projects, all overdue tasks, or all roles with a specific accountability, instantly.

Save any search as a view in your navigation for quick access later. This turns Nestr's search into a personal dashboard builder, letting you create the exact views you need for your workflow.

Recurring responsibilities are easy to forget. Nestr's checklists let you define repeating tasks tied to specific roles, then review them during tactical meetings.

Each checklist item asks a simple question: did you do this? The role holder checks their own items, and the circle has visibility, creating lightweight accountability without micromanagement.

Checklists complement metrics by tracking recurring activities (the inputs) alongside measurable outcomes (the outputs), giving a complete picture of role performance.

Track the numbers that matter to each circle and role. Nestr's metrics feature lets you define KPIs at any level of your organisation and review them during tactical meetings.

Each metric is owned by a specific role, creating clear accountability for the numbers. Regular updates keep the data fresh and visible to the whole circle.

Metrics integrate directly into tactical meeting agendas, so reviewing performance becomes a natural part of your operational rhythm rather than a separate reporting exercise.

The Insights app analyses your organisation's patterns to surface areas for improvement. It looks at governance health, meeting cadence, role coverage, and work distribution to identify blind spots.

Are some circles overloaded while others are idle? Are governance records outdated? Are meetings happening regularly? Insights answers these questions with data rather than guesswork.

For organisations scaling their self-organisation practice, this is where it pays off: helping leaders and facilitators direct their coaching where it will have the most impact.

In self-organising teams, there's no manager to provide performance reviews. Nestr's feedback app fills this gap with structured peer-to-peer feedback tied to specific roles.

Give feedback to a colleague in their specific role, because someone might excel as a Developer but need growth as a Facilitator. Role-based feedback keeps things specific and actionable rather than vague and personal.

Feedback can be kept private between giver and receiver, or made public for full transparency. Customisable feedback forms let your organisation define what great role performance looks like.

Nestr's OKR app helps your organisation align around what matters most. Set Objectives at the workspace, circle, or role level, then define measurable Key Results that track progress toward those goals.

OKRs cascade through your circle structure, creating clear line-of-sight from individual contributions to organisational purpose. Each circle can set its own objectives while staying aligned with the broader strategy.

Regular check-ins and progress tracking keep goals visible and actionable, not buried in a spreadsheet that nobody updates.

Share your organisational structure with the world by publishing it as an interactive org chart. Stakeholders, partners, and potential hires can explore your roles, circles, and accountabilities without needing a Nestr account.

The published view updates automatically as your governance evolves, with no manual diagram maintenance required. This radical transparency builds trust and helps people understand how your organisation works.

For purpose-driven organisations that want to demonstrate their commitment to distributed authority and clear accountability, it's a practical way to show how decisions get made.

Governance Playback lets you replay how your organisational structure has evolved over time. See exactly what changed, when, and why, from role creation to accountability updates to policy changes.

This historical view is invaluable for understanding how decisions were made and how your organisation has adapted. New team members can trace the reasoning behind current structures, and leaders can identify patterns in how governance evolves.

Pro plans get lifetime governance playback, giving you a complete institutional memory that persists regardless of team turnover.

Circle (or Tactical) meetings in Nestr provide a structured space for operational coordination. Team members share updates on projects, surface blockers, and request support, all within a focused, time-boxed format.

The meeting follows a clear agenda: check-in, checklist review, metrics review, project updates, and tension processing. This structure keeps meetings efficient and makes sure nothing falls through the cracks.

Tensions raised during tactical meetings lead directly to next actions, projects, or requests, turning conversation into concrete progress rather than endless discussion.

Domains in Nestr define areas of exclusive control for a role or circle. When a role holds a domain, others must get permission before impacting it, creating clear boundaries that prevent confusion and overstepping.

Policies grant or restrict access to domains, establishing transparent rules for collaboration. Instead of relying on implicit norms or manager approval, policies make expectations explicit and accessible to everyone.

Domains and policies create the guardrails that allow distributed authority to work safely, giving people the freedom to act within their roles while protecting the organisation's critical assets.

Nestr structures your organisation around roles and circles rather than traditional job titles and departments. Each role has a clear purpose, accountabilities, and domains, so everyone knows what's expected and where authority lies.

Circles are self-governing teams that contain roles and can nest within each other, creating a flexible hierarchy that mirrors how work actually flows. This structure supports Holacracy, Sociocracy, Teal, and custom approaches to self-organisation.

Visualise your entire organisational structure with Nestr's interactive role-based org map. Explore circles, roles, and their relationships at a glance, giving everyone a clear picture of how the organisation is structured and where authority lives.

As your organisation evolves, roles and circles can be updated through governance proposals, keeping your structure alive and responsive rather than rigid and outdated.

Check out our guide on how to get started with roles and circles.

Evolve your organisation's structure through transparent, asynchronous governance proposals. Any role filler can propose changes to roles, circles, accountabilities, domains, and policies, without waiting for a meeting.

Proposals follow a structured consent process: submit a proposal, circle members review and raise objections, integrate feedback, and reach a decision. Every voice is heard while governance keeps moving.

For teams practicing Holacracy, Sociocracy, or a custom approach, Nestr adapts the proposal workflow to match your governance rules, making distributed authority practical and accessible.

Boards give you a visual overview of work across your organisation. See projects grouped by status (Current, Waiting, Future, Done) for any role, circle, or across your entire workspace.

Switch between board and list views depending on what works best for the context. Drag and drop projects between columns to update their status, or click into any item for the full detail.

Boards are especially useful during tactical meetings when reviewing the state of work across a circle. At a glance, you can spot what's moving, what's stuck, and where attention is needed.