Genchi vs Range
Range describes itself as "software for teamwork": daily check-ins, meetings, goals and a team directory, with mood sharing and team-building questions built into every check-in. Genchi does a more specific job. It gives engineering leaders a project delivery prediction from the people doing the work: an anonymous, 1-click confidence vote from everyone on the project, combined by project and tracked over time. Range helps a team stay in sync and feel connected. Genchi tells leaders, and the teams that depend on each project, whether it's expected to land on time.
What Range does well
- Check-ins with a human side. Daily plans and progress, plus mood sharing and a bank of more than 350 team-building questions.
- Better meetings. Agendas, notes and action items, shared to email and Slack.
- Goals across teams. Hierarchical goals and OKRs, each with an owner who gets reminders to update its status, and hashtags that link check-ins to goals.
- Trend graphs for mood, meetings and activity.
- Integrations. Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Asana, Trello, Confluence, PagerDuty and more.
- A generous free plan. Free for up to 12 people.
Where it differs
- The owner's status, not the team's prediction. A Range goal has a status, updated by its owner, usually the person accountable for the date. It's one person's view, published under their name. Genchi asks everyone working on the project, independently and anonymously, and combines their votes into a project delivery prediction. Independent judgments from the people closest to the work tend to beat a single forecast, because individual errors cancel out. Does asking the team actually work? →
- How people feel vs whether the project will land. Range is built around team health: mood sharing, team-building questions and mood trends. That's valuable, but it answers a different question. A low mood means a person is having a hard day. A low Genchi score means a project's date is in trouble. Reading one as the other misleads you both ways. Genchi's vote asks only whether the team will achieve the project's goal by the deadline, and it can't be used to ask about morale, workload or anything else about people.
- Writing, not a click. A check-in asks for plans, progress and a mood. A Genchi confidence vote is one click.
- Anonymous by design. Range check-ins are named, and paid plans can make them private to a team, which restricts who sees them rather than removing the name. In Genchi, every vote is anonymous by design, while comments and blockers are attributed so someone can follow up.
The gap Genchi catches
Picture a launch whose owner has it marked On track in Range, with check-ins showing tickets closing every day. Three engineers privately doubt the date but haven't written that under their own names. Range shows the work and the owner's view. Genchi lets those three register low confidence with one click and no name attached, so the leader sees the doubt while there's still time to act.
Could you use Range to run a cross-team confidence vote, grouped by project?
Not directly. You could make each project a Range goal, but its status comes from the goal's owner, not from everyone working on it. A confidence question added to check-ins would be answered per team, not per project, so you'd collect and regroup the answers yourself. It could be done as a workaround, but the signal wouldn't be consistent. Range supports how a team works together. Genchi is built for one job, a consistent project delivery prediction across every project.
What it costs
Range is free for up to 12 people. Its Pro plan is $8 per team member per month, about $800 a month for 100 people at list price, and Range recommends its custom-priced Enterprise plan above 100 users. Genchi is free for teams of up to 10, then $2.50 per user per month, billed in blocks of 10: about $250 a month for 100 people.
Side by side
| Range | Genchi | |
|---|---|---|
| Question it answers | What is everyone working on, and how are they feeling? | Will we achieve the goal by the deadline? |
| Focus | Team sync and team health | Delivery across teams and projects |
| Source of the signal | Each person's check-in; goal status from the owner | Everyone working on the project |
| Direction | Mostly backward-looking, plus the owner's view of each goal | Forward-looking by design |
| Effort per person | A written check-in with a mood | One click, about two seconds |
| Consistency | Consistent check-in format; goal status reflects one person | The same question on the same scale, every time |
| Independence | Named check-ins; private check-ins on Pro | Each vote anonymous and cast independently |
| Trend | Mood, meetings and activity | Each project's confidence, vote by vote, over time |
| Unit scored | Teams and goals | A project, from one vote per person per project |
| Output | Check-ins, meeting notes, goal updates, trend graphs | Score, trend and individual votes, across a color-coded portfolio |
| Who sees it | The team, and by default the wider workspace | Leaders and the team, including teams that depend on the project |
| Price | Free up to 12; Pro $8 per team member per month | Free up to 10; $2.50 per user per month |
When to use which
- Use Range to keep a team in sync and connected: check-ins, meetings, goals and a regular read on how people feel.
- Use Genchi for a standing project delivery prediction across every project, one leaders can read at a glance and that tells them which teams to leave alone.
- Use both. Range looks after how the team works together. Genchi tells leaders, and the teams that depend on each project, whether the date is still believed. A week of good moods and busy check-ins in Range while Genchi's confidence falls is the signal to look closer: activity and morale are not a forecast.
What Genchi won't do
- Tell you the truth if the whole team is confidently wrong. Genchi measures belief, not reality.
- Work without a clear goal. If people can't say what "done" means, their confidence can't mean much either.
- Work as well without a deadline. Without a date, confidence has less to anchor to, though the trend still shows whether it's rising or falling.
- Tell you why. A falling score shows you where to look. Comments, blockers and a conversation supply the reason.
- Measure morale. It asks one question, about each project, and has no way to ask how people feel.
Genchi is our product. Range is a well-built teamwork tool, and the two do different jobs.
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