HeyTaco counts the tacos your team chooses to give. Hear reads every message your team sends — automatically surfacing recognition, burnout risk, and collaboration patterns nobody thought to track.
| Feature | Hear | HeyTaco |
|---|---|---|
| Passive Slack monitoring | ✓ Fully automatic | ✗ Manual taco giving |
| AI burnout detection | ✓ Automated alerts | ✗ Not available |
| Team health scores | ✓ Composite 0–100 score | ✗ Not available |
| Sentiment analysis | ✓ AI-scored, aggregated | ✗ Not available |
| Recognition tracking | ✓ AI-detected automatically | ⚡ Taco count only |
| Energy & collaboration trends | ✓ 7-day charts | ✗ Not available |
| Silo detection | ✓ Cross-team analysis | ✗ Not available |
| After-hours burnout signals | ✓ Tracked automatically | ✗ Not available |
| Gamification / leaderboards | ✗ Not applicable | ✓ Taco leaderboards |
| Engagement requirement | ✓ Zero | ✗ Employees must give tacos |
| Setup time | ✓ ~5 minutes | ⚡ ~10 min + team onboarding |
| Pricing (100 people) | ✓ $49/mo flat | ✗ ~$3/user ($300/mo) |
| Free tier | ✓ Free forever | ⚡ Free for small teams |
Taco counts tell you who's popular. Hear tells you who's genuinely contributing, who's burned out, and whether your team culture is improving or declining — with real AI analysis.
Your burned-out engineer won't get many tacos — they're too exhausted to be visible. Hear sees the declining energy, after-hours messages, and sentiment drops before they disappear.
HeyTaco shows you recognition frequency. Hear shows you team health scores, collaboration network, morale trends, and silo detection — a full picture of how each team is doing.
HeyTaco charges per user. Hear is flat $49/mo for up to 100 people — you pay less as your team grows and get dramatically more insight per dollar.
HeyTaco is fun. It gets people saying nice things in Slack by gamifying the process. If your culture problem is that people don't express appreciation enough, HeyTaco can nudge that behavior.
But HeyTaco can't tell you who's burning out. It can't surface the quiet contributor who never asks for credit but keeps your product running. It can't detect the team that's slowly fragmenting under deadline pressure.
Hear does all of that — automatically, without asking anything from your team. It's the difference between counting compliments and actually understanding your people.
Connect Slack and get AI-powered team health data in minutes. No tacos required — Hear reads what's already there.
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