VoiceHubs

For remote, hybrid, and globally distributed teams

When your team is in three timezones, the meeting can't include everyone.

VoiceHubs collects everyone's input async, before the meeting. The people in the wrong timezone contribute on their own time. The meeting itself becomes shorter, more focused, and finally optional for the people who couldn't make it anyway.

  • Async contribution windows that work across any timezone spread
  • The full team's input lands in the calendar event, even from people who can't attend
  • Decisions stop waiting on the next “when are we all online” window

Works with Google Calendar and Outlook. Used by distributed teams from 2 to 20+ timezones.

Async window · 24h

Sprint planning · cross-timezone

Deadline arriving in every contributor's local time

Engineer · Berlin

CET11:30 local

Migration looks good. One concern on the rollback path.

Designer · NYC

EST5:30 local

Flow tested. Empty state needs one more pass.

Eng lead · Singapore

SGT18:30 local

Aligned on scope. Need 24h for the test plan.

PM · San Francisco

PST2:30 local

Submitted the brief before EOD Friday.

Wednesday at 9am Pacific. Which means midnight in Singapore.

You schedule the planning meeting for the only window that mostly works. Your engineer in Singapore joins anyway, half-asleep, says nothing for the full hour, and DMs you the next morning with the three things she would have raised if she'd been awake. Two of them change the plan.

The meeting was already a compromise. The output was worse than it should have been. And nobody in the room knew it.

The meeting wasn't the wrong meeting. It was missing half the team.

Three ways async prep changes everything for a distributed team.

Cross-timezone planning

Everyone contributes. Not everyone has to attend.

Set a 24- or 48-hour async window before the meeting. People in any timezone contribute on their own schedule. The overview lands in the calendar event with everyone's input, including from the teammates who couldn't make the synchronous slot. The meeting becomes optional for them, not exclusionary.

Outcome

Full team input on every decision

Handoff meetings

The team that goes offline writes the brief. The team that comes online reads it.

Follow-the-sun teams already work this way. VoiceHubs makes the handoff structured: outgoing team summarizes context, decisions, and open questions in a VoiceHub. Incoming team reads it before their day starts. No more “wait for them to come online to ask a question” days.

Outcome

Zero overlap-window meetings for routine handoffs

Distributed retros

Honest input from every region, not just the loudest one.

Retros across timezones are usually dominated by whichever region has the most people in the live call. VoiceHubs collects retro input async from every region, weighted equally. The overview surfaces patterns no single time-zone-bound retro would have caught.

Outcome

Equal input from every region

It works across timezones, by design.

VoiceHubs was built for teams that don't all log on at the same time. The async window, the deadline logic, and the calendar delivery are all timezone-aware, every contributor sees deadlines in their local time, and the overview lands in everyone's calendar event regardless of where they are.

  • Local timezones, automatically. Every participant sees the contribution deadline in their own timezone. No mental math.

  • Async windows that respect sleep. Set a deadline, and VoiceHubs makes sure participants in night-mode timezones get the notification when they wake up, not at 3am.

  • Calendar delivery, anywhere. The overview lands in the calendar event regardless of which calendar provider, which timezone, or which device the participant is on.

  • Works for two timezones or twenty. Whether your team spans Berlin to Lisbon or San Francisco to Singapore, the same async logic applies.

Contribution deadline · Tuesday

CET

14:00

Berlin · Lisbon

EST

08:00

New York · Toronto

SGT

21:00

Singapore

Participants

Maya, Senior EngCET
Submitted
Theo, DesignerEST
Submitted
Priya, Eng LeadSGT
In progress
Sam, PMPST
Notified

Try it on the meeting with the worst timezone spread.

Pick the meeting where someone always has to dial in at a brutal hour. Connect VoiceHubs. Set a 24-hour async window. See what changes.

If everyone's input lands before the meeting starts, you keep using it. If it doesn't, you've spent five minutes finding out.

Free to start. No credit card. Used by distributed teams from 2 to 20+ timezones.