Creating Teams

Teams are how you organise people in Protu. When team members complete their assessments, Protu reveals how the team works together: strengths, gaps, dynamics, and who connects you to other teams.

Creating a New Team

To create a team:

Go to Teams in the navigation
Click Create team (or press T)
Enter the team details:
- Team name (required): e.g., “Customer Service”, “Platform”, “Q1 Launch”
- Description (optional): A brief purpose or focus area
Click Create team

You’ll be taken to your new team’s summary page, ready to add members.

Naming tips

Use names your team actually uses (e.g., “Engineering”, “Sales”, “Platform Squad”, not “Engineering Team 3”)
Include context if helpful (“Q1 Launch” tells you it’s time-bound)
Protu warns you if a team with that name already exists

Adding Team Members

There are two ways to add people to a team:

Add existing employees

If employees are already in Protu (from another team or the employees list):

On your team page, click Add employees
Search or scroll to find employees
Select the ones you want to add (click or press Space)
Click Add X employees

The modal shows:

Not on any team: Employees who aren’t assigned anywhere yet
On other teams: Employees already on other teams (adding them creates a bridge)

Create new employees

If the people aren’t in Protu yet:

On your team page, click Create employee
Enter the employee’s details
Save

This creates a new employee record and adds them to the team. You can then invite them to complete their assessment separately from the employees list.

What Happens After Creation

When you create a team, you’ll see:

Team Summary page

Your team’s home is built around the team intelligence card, which has three sections:

Zone	What it shows
Intelligence	A narrative summary of your team’s dynamics, strengths, and risks, generated by Protu’s analysis
Recommendations	Actionable next steps with primary and secondary actions (e.g., “Add a balancing hire” or “Review bridge workload”)
Status	Completion progress (X of Y profiles complete), member avatars, and team trajectory

Below the card you’ll see:

Hiring pipeline: Roles linked to this team and candidate readiness (see Hiring Into Teams)
Recent activity: Member changes, role links, assessment completions

Completion states

The team card adapts based on how many members have completed assessments:

State	What you see
Empty	Prompt to add employees
Building	Progress indicator, waiting for completions
Below threshold	Some completions but fewer than 3. Intelligence not yet available
Threshold	Approaching the 3-member minimum
Ready	3+ completed. Team Intelligence is active
Complete	All members have completed

Understanding Team Status

Protu automatically tracks your team’s health through stability badges and completion progress.

Stability badges

Protu discovers your team’s stability from membership patterns:

Badge	What it means
Settled	Stable membership for 4+ weeks
Shifting	Recent membership changes
Growing	Adding members faster than losing them
Shrinking	Losing members faster than adding
Rotating	High turnover but stable size
Inactive	No recent activity or membership changes

New teams (less than 14 days old) don’t show stability badges. Protu needs time to observe patterns.

Bridge Employees

When someone is on two or more teams, they become a bridge (or connector).

Bridges are valuable because they:

Carry information between teams
Spot cross-team issues early
Create coordination that org charts miss

Protu automatically identifies bridges and shows:

Which teams they connect
Whether you have single-point-of-failure risks
How your team’s connectivity compares to others

Editing a Team

To change team details:

Open the team
Click the three-dot menu (⋯) in the header
Select Edit team
Update name or description
Save

Archive a team

When a team is no longer active:

Open the team (or find it on the Teams list)
Click the three-dot menu (⋯)
Select Archive

What happens when you archive

Changes	Preserved
Team becomes read-only	All Team Intelligence data
Cannot add/remove employees	Individual employee insights
Cannot link/unlink roles	Historical snapshots
Cannot run comparisons	Membership history
Hidden from main Teams view	Searchable and accessible

Finding archived teams

Go to Teams or Settings → Teams
Apply the Archived filter
View your archived teams

Restoring an archived team

If you need to reactivate a team:

Find the team in your archived list
Click Restore team

After restoring:

Team status returns to Active
All functionality is re-enabled
Insights recalculate based on current data

Note: If employees have left since archiving, team composition may have changed.

When to archive vs keep active

Archive when…	Keep active when…
Team is dissolved	You might add people
Project is complete	Hiring is planned
No longer relevant	Regular comparison needed

Team Settings Directory

For administrative tasks, go to Settings → Teams:

View all teams in a sortable table
Filter by status (Active, Archived)
See member counts, linked roles, creation dates
Archive or restore teams

The main Teams page focuses on intelligence; Settings focuses on administration.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
`T`	Create new team
`A`	Add employees to team
`B`	Toggle bridge view
`I`	Open Team Intelligence
`L`	Link a role
`M`	Manage members
`N`	New role for this team
`R`	Open recent activity
`Y`	Copy team link
`?`	Show all shortcuts