Built for CTOs at seed-to-Series B startups

What needs your attention this week: delivery, people, or both?

Your best engineer won't tell you they're burning out.
By the time you find out, they've already accepted the other offer.

Delivery metrics show what's slipping. Team check-ins show why. CrewPulse brings both into one plain language digest every week.

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Needs Your Attention

Mobile teamQuiet burnout

Delivery Pulse is healthy. Team Pulse isn't.

· 3 of 3 engineers rated workload sustainability ≤ 4/10
· Second week running. Nothing flags in delivery data.

Backend teamHealth drop

Team Pulse score hit 23.7, down 11 points this week.

· 3 of 3 engineers flagged feeling blocked
· "Priorities are unclear and shifting frequently"

Data teamDelivery slipping

Two blocked tickets. One milestone overdue.

· 9.7 context switches per week, up from 4.2
· Team Pulse trending down, third week running.

Example callouts from the weekly CTO digest

Existing tools tell you that delivery is slipping.
None of them tell you why.

LinearB, Jellyfish, Swarmia: they measure cycle time and DORA metrics. They can't tell you whether the slowdown is a process problem or a morale problem. You still have to figure that out yourself, usually a week too late.

Delivery metrics tools

Tell you that something is wrong. Not whether it's a process issue or a people issue.

HR pulse tools

Owned by People, not Engineering. No integration with code or delivery signals.

CrewPulse

Joins delivery data and team health into one view. Plain language callouts. No dashboard archaeology.

How it works

Three moving parts. A team can be running within a day.

Engineers check in

Weekly link by email. No login, no password. Five sliders mapped to the SPACE framework: wellbeing, blockers, priorities, workload, and team communication. About 90 seconds.

Optional open text is AI-summarized into themes, not surfaced verbatim. Engineers know this, so they actually answer honestly.

Signals get joined

Pulse data meets delivery signals from GitHub and Jira: cycle time, PR review lag, milestone slippage. Linear and ADO coming soon. Both halves in one place.

Integrations are optional. Pulse works standalone from day one.

You get the digest

Every Monday: what needs your attention, in plain language. "Data team pulse dropped 22 points. 3 of 5 engineers flagged feeling blocked." Not a chart. An action. Delivered to your inbox, or Slack on Flow and above.

Full walkthrough →

Up and running in 15 minutes.

No IT ticket. No implementation project. No waiting.

Create your account

Add your teams

Connect GitHub & Jira

Set your digest day

View your dashboard

Integrations are optional. Skip step 3 and start with pulse-only on day one.

Not surveillance. Not status theater.

CrewPulse is built for trust. Engineers know exactly what gets surfaced and how: summarized themes, not verbatim quotes. No individual productivity scores. No activity surveillance.

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Open text is AI-summarized. Originals are never shown to managers.

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Team-level signals only. No per-engineer rankings or scoring.

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Engineers know exactly what gets surfaced. No hidden data layer.

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No activity tracking. This is signal, not monitoring.

What CrewPulse will never do

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Per-engineer scores or rankings

Team-level signal only. No individual visibility for managers, ever.

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Activity monitoring

Not keystrokes, IDE activity, or commit frequency per engineer. There's a category of tools built on surveillance. This isn't it.

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Verbatim open text surfaced to managers

Open responses are always AI-summarized into themes. The raw text is never shown. Engineers know this upfront. That's why they answer honestly.

Enterprise-Grade Privacy by Design →

Simple pricing. No sales call required.

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Stop finding out a week late.

Your best engineers won't tell you they're burning out. Their check-in scores will, usually 3–5 weeks before it becomes a resignation.