Product Hunt: Cleo, an AI PM that runs standups and follow-ups in Slack

Cleo launched on Product Hunt in May 2026 as an AI product manager for founders and lean teams. It runs inside Slack and Telegram, integrates with Linear, Notion, Gmail, and Calendar, and takes on the coordination overhead that typically falls to a PM: facilitating standups, tracking follow-ups, logging decisions with their context and trade-offs, and managing recurring check-ins.

The design choice that distinguishes Cleo from generic AI assistants is how it handles memory. Every fact Cleo learns about the team is visible to team members — they can see the source, the confidence level, and correct it when wrong. The product offers five trust levels, from observer (Cleo reads and summarizes but takes no action) to full operator (Cleo runs automations independently). Teams can calibrate how much they delegate without losing visibility over what the agent is doing.

The practical positioning is for teams too small to justify a dedicated PM hire. In that context, Cleo works as a coordination layer rather than a strategic product advisor — it manages recurring process overhead rather than making product decisions. The free tier supports up to three active automations, which reflects the same logic: it covers a handful of well-defined, repeatable workflows rather than open-ended PM work.

For product managers at small companies or those managing multiple workstreams simultaneously, the institutional memory angle is the most useful dimension. Cleo maintains context across conversations in a way standard chat tools do not, which reduces the overhead of re-explaining background at each standup or after a team member joins the thread mid-discussion.

Cleo is free to start in Telegram and offers a one-month trial across all features.