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Nestr helps you get clarity and focus on purpose
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 centralised access control.
Single Sign-On (SSO) allows your team to log in to Nestr using the same credentials they use for other corporate applications. Instead of maintaining a separate Nestr password, users authenticate via your identity provider such as Okta, Azure AD, or Google Workspace. Nestr supports the SAML 2.0 standard, the industry standard for enterprise SSO integrations.
SSO setup involves configuring a SAML application in your identity provider and entering the resulting metadata in Nestr's SSO settings. Your IT administrator will need access to both systems. Once configured, users will be redirected to your identity provider's login page when they access Nestr, and will be logged in automatically if they already have an active session.
SSO improves security and reduces friction. Users avoid password fatigue, IT administrators have centralised control over access, and offboarding an employee in your identity provider automatically removes their Nestr access. For organisations with strict security requirements, SSO also enables multi-factor authentication to be enforced at the identity provider level for all Nestr logins.
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.
Projects and todos are Nestr's task management layer, designed around role accountability rather than personal task lists. A project is a multi-step outcome owned by a role. A todo is a discrete next action. Both live within the role or circle they belong to, making it immediately clear who is responsible and why the work exists.
Each role has a Kanban board with four statuses: Current, Waiting, Future, and Done. Projects can contain nested todos, due dates, and collaborators. Team members can comment on projects to discuss progress, ask questions, or surface blockers. All of this is visible to anyone with access to the circle, creating transparency without status meetings.
In self-managing organisations, work belongs to roles, not individuals. When a role changes hands, the projects and todos travel with the role, so nothing gets lost in transition. It also makes delegation natural: assign a collaborator to a project and the accountability stays with the role holder while others can contribute.
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.
Nestr's powerful search covers the entire content of your organisation: roles, circles, projects, todos, governance records, meeting notes, and people. You can search across workspaces simultaneously or narrow results to a specific circle, making it easy to find anything regardless of where it lives in your structure.
Nestr supports a range of search operators that let you combine filters in a single query. Filter by label, assignee, completion status, due date, circle, and more. Results update instantly as you type, and you can combine multiple operators to narrow large datasets to exactly what you need.
Saved views turn one-time searches into permanent navigation shortcuts. Instead of recreating a complex query every day, save it once and access it from your sidebar. This is particularly useful for team leads who need recurring views such as all open projects in their circle, all overdue todos assigned to them, or all roles without a current member.
Migrate from other platforms or back up your organisational data without friction. Import governance structures from Holaspirit, Glassfrog, Peerdom, or CSV files, and export your complete workspace data whenever you need it.
Nestr supports direct imports from Holaspirit, GlassFrog, and Peerdom, as well as CSV-based imports for custom data structures. When you import, Nestr maps the existing roles, circles, accountabilities, policies, and domains from your source system into the equivalent Nestr structures, preserving your governance setup as accurately as possible.
Export your data from your current platform, then upload the file in Nestr's import interface. Nestr processes the file and creates the corresponding circles, roles, and governance structures in your new workspace. Review the imported structure, make any adjustments, and you're ready to go. For CSV imports, a template is provided to ensure the correct data format.
You can export a complete snapshot of your workspace at any time, including all circles, roles, accountabilities, policies, domains, projects, and governance records. Exports are available in standard formats and can be used for backups, audits, reporting, or migrating to other systems. Your data is always yours to take.
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 pull directly from your roles and circles, so there is no need to duplicate work into a separate project tool.
Boards are especially useful during tactical meetings when reviewing the state of work across a circle. At a glance, you can spot what is moving, what is stuck, and where attention is needed, making project reviews faster and more focused.
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.
Labels define what a nest is: a role, a circle, a project, a goal, or any concept your organisation uses. You can create personal labels visible only to you, or workspace labels shared with your team. Labels are the foundation of Nestr's flexibility, letting every organisation define its own structure and vocabulary.
Every label you create is searchable and filterable. A well-designed labelling system becomes the foundation for powerful custom dashboards and workflows. Filter by label to see all projects, all roles in a circle, or all items with a specific status at a glance.
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 organisation's needs.
Nestr's REST API gives developers programmatic access to workspace data: roles, circles, projects, todos, people, governance records, and more. Use it to build custom dashboards, synchronise Nestr data with external tools, automate repetitive operations, or create integrations that connect Nestr to the rest of your organisation's software stack.
API access is available on Pro and higher plans. Generate an API token from your workspace settings and use it to authenticate requests against Nestr's REST endpoints. The API follows standard REST conventions, returning JSON responses that are straightforward to parse and integrate.
Common integrations include syncing role data with HR systems, pulling project status into custom reporting tools, triggering automations in third-party platforms based on Nestr events, and building internal dashboards that combine Nestr data with other business tools. Teams also use the API to migrate data in bulk and build onboarding automations.
Sometimes you need a private conversation. Nestr's direct messaging lets you reach any colleague instantly for one-on-one discussions that do not belong in a circle feed.
Access your messages from anywhere in Nestr via the messaging tab. Search for colleagues, start conversations, and get notified when they respond. Direct messages are private between you and the recipient, separate from all circle feeds and project discussions.
While transparency is a core principle of self-organisation, not every conversation belongs in a circle feed. Use direct messaging for sensitive topics, personal feedback, or quick one-on-one coordination that does not need to be visible to the whole circle.
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. 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. You can add as many fields as needed, and each one is available in search and views.
Use custom fields to track anything from sprint numbers and cost centres to client references and approval status. They turn Nestr's flexible structure into a data model that matches your organisation's specific way of working.
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.
Nestr supports privacy controls on individual projects, meetings, todos, and notes. A private item is visible only to the people explicitly given access. This enables a range of use cases: sensitive HR processes, board-level discussions, confidential partnerships, personal development plans, and any other work that should not be visible to the full circle or organisation.
Nestr is built on the principle of role-based transparency: all governance, roles, and accountabilities are visible by default. Privacy controls apply to operational work within roles, not to the roles themselves. This means your organisation's structure remains open while specific work items can be kept confidential where necessary.
The person who creates a private item controls who can access it. They can add specific collaborators, who will see the item in their workspace. Access can be updated at any time, keeping sensitive work within a defined group without requiring administrator involvement for every change.
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-organised team.
MCP is an open standard that lets AI assistants connect directly to external tools and data sources. When connected to Nestr, an AI agent can read your full organisational structure, understand who holds which role, and take actions within the boundaries of those roles.
Once connected, your AI assistant has access to Nestr's full functionality through natural language. It can query roles and circles, create tensions, manage projects, process governance proposals, and update work items. The agent acts within the governance boundaries you have defined, keeping its behaviour accountable and traceable in the audit trail.
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 lives.
A role is a defined unit of work with three core components: a purpose (why it exists), accountabilities (ongoing activities the role is responsible for), and domains (areas it has exclusive control over). People fill roles rather than holding job titles, and one person can fill multiple roles across different circles simultaneously.
Circles are self-governing teams that contain roles and can nest within each other, creating a flexible hierarchy that mirrors how work actually flows. Each circle has its own purpose, governance meetings, and communication space. Circles can be as large or small as the work requires, and they support Holacracy, Sociocracy, Teal, and custom governance models.
Authority is distributed through roles rather than centralised in managers, so decisions happen close to the work. As your organisation evolves, roles and circles can be updated through governance proposals, keeping your structure alive and responsive. Visualise your entire structure with Nestr's interactive org map.
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.
A governance proposal is a formal request to change your organisational structure: creating a new role, updating accountabilities, removing a policy, or restructuring a circle. Proposals follow a structured consent process so every voice is heard while governance keeps moving forward.
Submit a proposal with a clear description of the change and why it addresses a tension. Circle members review it, raise objections if they have them, and you integrate feedback until the proposal passes or is withdrawn. The entire process is documented and transparent to all circle members.
Governance proposals let your organisation evolve continuously without waiting for a scheduled meeting. For teams with distributed time zones or fast-moving work, asynchronous proposals mean structural decisions never get bottlenecked by calendar availability.
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.
A tactical meeting is a regular, structured operational check-in for a circle. It follows a fixed agenda to keep meetings efficient: check-in, checklist review, metrics review, project updates, and tension processing. This structure ensures nothing falls through the cracks while keeping the meeting time-boxed and purposeful.
Nestr guides your facilitator through each agenda item. Circle members review their checklists, update their metrics, share project statuses, and raise tensions that need addressing. Tensions raised during the meeting lead directly to next actions, projects, or requests, turning conversation into concrete progress.
Because your projects, checklists, and metrics all live in Nestr, the meeting agenda is pre-populated automatically. No preparation overhead, no copy-pasting from other tools. Everything is in context, and outcomes are captured directly in the system where the work happens.
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 supports multiple governance frameworks out of the box:
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 decision made in a governance meeting is automatically recorded and applied to your organisational structure. Roles, accountabilities, and policies update in real time, no manual maintenance required. Combined with governance playback, you get a complete history of how and why your organisation evolved.
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. View the data over time, across your organisation and visualised as a heatmap on your organisational structure.
Insights tracks 40+ metrics across your workspace: governance activity, meeting frequency, tension volume, role coverage, work distribution, and how well your team finishes what it starts. Data is visualised over time and as a heatmap overlaid on your org structure, making it easy to spot where energy is flowing and where it is not.
Are some circles overloaded while others are idle? Are governance records outdated? Are meetings happening regularly? Is work evenly distributed? Insights answers these questions with data rather than guesswork, helping facilitators and leaders direct their coaching where it will have the most impact.
All insights are fully accessible to AI agents via Nestr's MCP integration. Your AI agents can analyse organisational health data and surface recommendations directly within your workspace.
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.
Metrics are quantifiable indicators owned by a specific role. Each metric has a name, a target, and a current value that the role holder updates regularly. During tactical meetings, metrics are reviewed as part of the standard agenda, so performance data is always visible and current.
Because each metric is owned by a specific role, accountability is clear. There is no ambiguity about who is responsible for a number. Regular updates keep the data fresh and visible to the whole circle, making performance review a natural part of operational rhythm rather than a separate reporting exercise.
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.
A Circle Feed is the dedicated communication space for a circle. It aggregates discussions from within the circle, including conversations happening inside projects and roles, so nothing gets missed. Members can also create topic channels within their circle for further organisation.
Traditional company chat tools create a flat list of channels that quickly becomes overwhelming. Nestr's circle-scoped feeds mirror how self-organising teams actually work: information flows within and between circles, following your organisational structure rather than fighting against it. The right people see the right conversations by default.
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 Org Chart is a public, read-only view of your organisational structure that anyone can access via a link, without needing a Nestr login. It shows your circles, roles, who fills them, and what each role is accountable for, giving full transparency into how your organisation distributes authority.
The published view updates automatically as your governance evolves. Every role change, circle update, or accountability revision made through governance proposals or meetings is reflected immediately. There is no manual diagram maintenance required.
For purpose-driven organisations that want to demonstrate their commitment to distributed authority and clear accountability, the published org chart is a practical way to show how decisions get made. It builds trust with stakeholders, helps potential hires understand the culture, and makes onboarding faster for new team members.
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.
The Audit Trail captures every action taken in Nestr: governance decisions, role changes, project updates, tension submissions, meeting outcomes, and user activity. Each entry includes who performed the action, from which role, and when. This gives your organisation a complete, timestamped institutional memory.
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 from agentic systems. You can see exactly what an AI agent did, in which role, and when.
During reviews, compliance audits, or incident investigations, you can trace any decision back to its source. For new team members, the audit trail explains why the current structure looks the way it does. For leaders, it surfaces patterns in how work and governance evolve.
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.
Governance Playback gives you a timeline of every structural change your organisation has made: new roles created, accountabilities added or removed, circles restructured, policies introduced or revoked. You can scrub through your org history and see the structure as it existed at any point in time.
Organisations that practice distributed governance make hundreds of structural decisions over time. Without a record, institutional memory lives only in people's heads and gets lost when team members leave. Governance Playback preserves the reasoning and evolution behind your current structure, so new members can understand why things are the way they are.
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 (Objectives and Key Results) are a goal-setting framework. An Objective is an ambitious, qualitative goal. Key Results are specific, measurable outcomes that define what achieving that goal looks like. In Nestr, OKRs are embedded in your circle structure so goals stay connected to the roles and teams responsible for them.
OKRs in Nestr cascade through your circle structure, creating a 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 rather than buried in a spreadsheet nobody updates.
In self-organising teams, there is 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 a 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.
In a self-organising team, a person fills multiple roles with different accountabilities. Generic feedback about a person misses this nuance. Role-based feedback in Nestr ensures that the feedback is relevant to the specific work, making it more useful for growth and more fair in assessment.
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. View the data over time, across your organisation and visualised as a heatmap on your organisational structure.
Insights tracks 40+ metrics across your workspace: governance activity, meeting frequency, tension volume, role coverage, work distribution, and how well your team finishes what it starts. Data is visualised over time and as a heatmap overlaid on your org structure, making it easy to spot where energy is flowing and where it is not.
Are some circles overloaded while others are idle? Are governance records outdated? Are meetings happening regularly? Is work evenly distributed? Insights answers these questions with data rather than guesswork, helping facilitators and leaders direct their coaching where it will have the most impact.
All insights are fully accessible to AI agents via Nestr's MCP integration. Your AI agents can analyse organisational health data and surface recommendations directly within your workspace.
Nestradamus is your AI-powered organisational companion built into Nestr. It helps you navigate governance, process tensions, draft proposals, and find information across your workspace, making self-organisation more accessible for everyone on your team.
Nestradamus understands your full organisational context: your circles, roles, governance history, projects, and tensions. Ask it questions, request help drafting a governance proposal, process a tension you have been sitting on, or find information buried deep in your structure. Every response is grounded in your specific organisation, not generic advice.
General AI assistants give generic answers. Nestradamus is connected to your live Nestr workspace, so it knows your circle structure, your current roles, your open tensions, and your governance history. It acts as an expert guide to your specific organisation.
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.
SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) is an open standard for automating user account management between an identity provider and a connected application. When SCIM is configured between your identity provider and Nestr, user accounts are created, updated, and deactivated automatically. Adding a new employee in Okta or Azure AD immediately creates their Nestr account, and removing them deactivates it.
Nestr's SCIM implementation is compatible with any identity provider that supports the SCIM 2.0 standard, including Okta, Azure Active Directory, Google Workspace, and OneLogin. Setup involves generating a SCIM endpoint URL and token in Nestr and entering these in your identity provider's application configuration.
Manual user management creates security risks: offboarded employees may retain access longer than intended, and new employees may wait before gaining the access they need. SCIM eliminates both problems by making Nestr user provisioning a direct consequence of your authoritative identity system, reducing both administrative burden and access risk.
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 centralised access control.
Single Sign-On (SSO) allows your team to log in to Nestr using the same credentials they use for other corporate applications. Instead of maintaining a separate Nestr password, users authenticate via your identity provider such as Okta, Azure AD, or Google Workspace. Nestr supports the SAML 2.0 standard, the industry standard for enterprise SSO integrations.
SSO setup involves configuring a SAML application in your identity provider and entering the resulting metadata in Nestr's SSO settings. Your IT administrator will need access to both systems. Once configured, users will be redirected to your identity provider's login page when they access Nestr, and will be logged in automatically if they already have an active session.
SSO improves security and reduces friction. Users avoid password fatigue, IT administrators have centralised control over access, and offboarding an employee in your identity provider automatically removes their Nestr access. For organisations with strict security requirements, SSO also enables multi-factor authentication to be enforced at the identity provider level for all Nestr logins.
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.
Governance Playback gives you a timeline of every structural change your organisation has made: new roles created, accountabilities added or removed, circles restructured, policies introduced or revoked. You can scrub through your org history and see the structure as it existed at any point in time.
Organisations that practice distributed governance make hundreds of structural decisions over time. Without a record, institutional memory lives only in people's heads and gets lost when team members leave. Governance Playback preserves the reasoning and evolution behind your current structure, so new members can understand why things are the way they are.
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Sure! You can test out Webflow on our free plan where you can experiment with 2 projects. Your unhosted projects will have a two-page limit, but you can purchase a site plan on a per-project basis to unlock up to 100 static pages and additional CMS pages.
Sure! You can test out Webflow on our free plan where you can experiment with 2 projects. Your unhosted projects will have a two-page limit, but you can purchase a site plan on a per-project basis to unlock up to 100 static pages and additional CMS pages.
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