How to use the Energy curve retro template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Energy curve retro template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Energy curve retro”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“For each stage, write what happened, how it felt and what it taught you. Look for the lows that keep coming back: those are the ones worth fixing.”
Fill in each part
- Kickoff
- Building
- Crunch
- Launch
- After
- What happened The events people remember from each stage.
- How it felt Energy and mood, in a few words.
- What it taught us The lesson worth carrying forward.
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Energy curve retro board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Mad, sad, glad retro
A feelings-first retro: what frustrated people, what disappointed them, what made them glad, and one thing to try.
Mountain climb retro
A picture-led retro for a long stretch of work: the summit we aimed for, what held us, what fell on us and what to pack next time.
Team radar check
Each person scores how the team is doing on a handful of areas, then the team talks about the spread, not just the average.
Retrospective
Went well, to improve and action items: a calm, classic sprint retro.
Start, stop, continue
A quick retro: what to begin, what to drop, what to keep, and one experiment.
Liked, learned, lacked, longed for
A reflective retro in four quadrants that looks at learning, not only problems.