Technical Founders

Connect engineering decisions to business outcomes. Track ROI, revenue impact, and strategic metrics.

Customer impact radius

For any given service or function, know which customers and revenue streams depend on it

Feature delivery date estimation

Trace from issue creation through historical PR-to-deploy timelines to give realistic ship dates

Feature impact attribution

Trace from business metrics (conversion, engagement) back to specific feature deployments

Architecture migration sequencing

When planning a migration, suggest optimal ordering based on dependency graph and risk

Build vs. buy decision support

When considering building a feature, surface historical data on how similar internal builds performed vs. third-party alternatives

Due diligence automation

For fundraising or M&A, auto-generate technical health reports from the knowledge graph

Acquisition integration planning

When acquiring a company, model how their stack would integrate based on technology overlap and dependency compatibility

Communication-code gap detection

Identify when Slack/meeting discussions about architecture diverge from what's actually being built

Effort-outcome mismatch detection

Flag areas where engineering effort is high but measurable output (deploys, issue closure, metric impact) is low

Revenue impact estimation

Given a service degradation, estimate revenue loss per minute based on traffic patterns and conversion funnels

Customer churn causal analysis

Trace from a churn event backward through support tickets, incidents, feature gaps, and competitor signals

Revenue per engineering hour

Trace from engineering time investment through features shipped to revenue impact

Vendor replacement analysis

When a third-party service underperforms, suggest alternatives based on integration complexity and feature parity

Competitive response speed benchmarking

Measure time from competitor feature launch (detected via monitoring) to internal implementation

Regulatory compliance mapping

Trace data flows and access patterns against regulatory requirements (SOC2, GDPR) and identify gaps

Startup health dashboard for investors

Real-time composite score combining velocity, reliability, cost efficiency, team health, and growth metrics

Implicit architecture emergence

Detect when a new architectural pattern is emerging organically across teams without explicit design

Churn risk from incident exposure

Correlate customer-facing incidents with churn data to predict which customers are at risk after an outage

Cost spike attribution

Trace unexpected cost increases to specific deployments, traffic patterns, or infrastructure changes

Optimal deploy window recommendation

Based on traffic patterns, team availability, and historical incident timing, suggest when to ship

Engineering ROI by initiative

Trace from strategic initiatives through epics, issues, PRs, deploys to business metric impact

Platform reliability as sales asset

Generate reliability reports for enterprise sales based on actual uptime, incident response times, and resolution patterns

Product-market fit signal detection

Correlate feature usage telemetry, support tickets, and churn data to identify PMF signals per feature

Seasonal reliability patterns

Identify recurring reliability issues tied to time patterns (end of month billing runs, marketing campaigns)

Cross-customer issue correlation

Identify when seemingly unrelated customer complaints share a technical root cause

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