Use case · small teams

Task management for small teams, inside the group they already use

Adding process rarely helps a small team. What helps is seeing the assignments where the team is already talking and having someone other than the manager chase them. DeloPulse adds both to a Telegram group, and nobody has to install an app, register or pay for a seat.

Free with no seat count and no task limit. The bot and the Mini App speak English.

Why the board gets abandoned by week three

Small teams set up trackers with enthusiasm and stop opening them within a month. The reasons repeat from team to team.

It lives in another tab

The discussion is in the messenger, the board is somewhere else. When a task is discussed in one place and tracked in another, the board is the one that falls behind.

Somebody has to administer it

Someone has to set up the columns and permissions and archive old cards. In a team of eight that is a part-time job, handed to whoever objected least, and it ends the moment they get busy.

The price is per person

Nine dollars a seat is fine for the four people who asked for the tool. It becomes an argument the moment someone suggests adding the warehouse, the accountant and the two contractors.

Half the team never signs in

To get in, people have to accept an invitation and install an app, and some of those whose work the tool is meant to track never do. The ones who skip it are usually the ones you most needed in there.

What a team of this size needs

Most small teams that have the five things below get by without anything else.

Assignments with names on them

Mention people in a /task command in the group, and the bot builds a card with each of them on it. Several assignees on one task keep separate statuses, so the counter reads 2 / 4 instead of a single green tick that speaks for everybody.

Deadlines chased by something other than you

The bot writes privately 24 hours, 3 hours and 1 hour before the deadline (for a date-only deadline, on the morning of the previous working day and on the morning of the due day), only to people who have not reported. When a deadline passes, the group sees one message naming who missed it.

One place to see what is open

The Mini App opens inside Telegram: the group’s tasks with filters, a calendar of deadlines, history, and a personal summary that covers every group you are in.

Recurring duties that appear on their own

Take the Monday report or the monthly reconciliation. Set the schedule once and the task is created on time, with the assignees already on it.

Almost nothing to configure before the first task

There are no columns or workflows to design and no roles to hand out. Group administrators get the administrative actions, and everyone else gets their tasks. To set it up, you add the bot and an admin picks the group’s language and time zone.

Add the bot to a group

Setup is adding the bot and choosing the language and time zone. The first task can be assigned right after.

See also: Telegram bot for task management · Assign tasks to employees · Track employee tasks · Team accountability · the guide to tracking assignments · the comparison.

What it does not do

Read this before you move anything over. These are outside the product’s scope.

No boards, sprints or dependency charts
There are no columns to drag cards between and no critical path. If your work is a plan with phases and dependencies, a project tool will serve you better than a chat.
No time tracking or invoicing
The bot records when work was reported, not how many hours it took, and it has nothing to do with billing.
Not a document archive
A task takes up to ten attachments, which is enough for the context of that task. It is not a place to keep the company’s files.
Not a personal to-do list
It is built for work handed between people. You can assign yourself something, but nothing here is designed around a private list of errands.
No import from Trello or Jira
There is no migration path. Teams start by assigning the tasks that are live this week, which takes an afternoon and skips the graveyard of cards nobody was going to do anyway.

A fact-by-fact comparison with UTasks, OK Bob!, Bitrix24, Weeek and Trello is on the comparison page.

Frequently asked questions

How many people can be in a group?

Telegram’s limits apply, not ours, and there is no pricing tier tied to headcount. Group size makes no difference.

We have several teams. Do we need several bots?

No. Add the same bot to each group; tasks stay isolated per chat. A person in several groups gets one personal summary in the Mini App covering all of them.

Who can edit and close tasks?

The author of a task and the group’s administrators. An assignee reports on their own part, can ask for a deadline change or a clarification, and cannot quietly rewrite the assignment. Permissions are checked on the server for every action.

Does it work for one-to-one assignments?

Yes. A personal assignment is delivered in a private conversation, with no group audience and no public overdue notice, and the deadlines and reports behave the same way.

What does it cost as we grow?

Nothing changes. Every feature is free, including reminders, recurring tasks, attachments, the Mini App and the analytics. There is no per-seat price to renegotiate as the team grows.

An afternoon to switch

Try it with this week’s tasks

Add DeloPulse to your team’s group and assign the work that is live right now. If the board you abandoned is still open in a tab, this takes less time than updating it.

Add the bot to a group