Using Ripple
Welcome!
You’re about to join a workspace designed to help you meet better, work smarter, and actually get your time back. We know the drill: back-to-back calls, notifications everywhere, and that feeling that you worked all day but got nothing done.
This guide is your roadmap. We’ll walk you through the basics, show you how to flip your meetings, and get you set up to do your best work. Let’s get into it.
What is Ripple?
Ripple is an async-first collaboration platform that helps teams spend less time in meetings and more time progressing on the work that actually matters. We humanise automation to clear the noise and connect teams.
Most tools fragment context. We connect it. We unify collaboration, tasks, calls, chat, and notes into one space. The goal? To replace chaos and noise with clarity and progress for teams.
Our Core Philosophy:
Before we dive into the features and functions, it helps to understand why we built Ripple.
We were inspired by the “flipped classroom” model in education. Traditional meetings often waste live time on updates and context that could have been shared beforehand, limiting the time for actual decision-making. We reverse this:
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Context First: You share updates and info in a “Jam” asynchronously (on your own time) before anyone schedules a meeting. Often, the team completes the work there in the Jam. No meeting needed.
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High-Value Live Time: If you do still need to meet, you skip the status updates and go straight to making decisions.
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Act Fast: AI generates tasks, minutes, and summaries automatically.
The result? You meet less, but when you do, it actually matters.
The Ripple Workflow
| Stage | Purpose | Tools |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Prepare | To gather context and define the agenda so everyone has the necessary background info before engaging. | Jams |
| 2. Align | To share updates, debate options, and build consensus without requiring a live meeting for every interaction. | Jams |
| 3. Decide | To finalise the path forward and clearly record the outcome so there is no ambiguity later. | Jams, Calls |
| 4. Act | To turn decisions into concrete actions and track progress visibly. | Jams, Tasks |
| 5. Learn | To review how the team worked, identify bottlenecks, and improve efficiency for next time. | Summaries, Metrics |