Tempo gives engineering managers an evidence-backed view of delivery rhythm, review flow, team goals, and developer experience — built from DevLake signals with a lightweight Pulse check-in for Spark. No self-assessments. No leaderboards.
You see the goal-fit board. Your engineers see their own cards first — sharing is always their choice.
"Faster code, slower review. Flow is the constraint that decides whether Q3 goals land."
Start with the executive summary, follow the bottleneck into a squad, then open the contributor card behind the pattern. Same signals. Different altitude.
A personal card that names what you do well, where you're building momentum, and one move that would level you up. Built from sampled delivery, review, incident, and cross-team activity — no self-assessment, no manager rating.
Your archetype, named and explained. Bridge Builder. Pathfinder. Anchor. Catalyst. Architect. Amplifier.
Five radar dimensions in plain English — Trail, Reliability, Review Craft, Cross-team Reach, Delivery — each tiered as Spark, Streak, or Signature and traceable to specific tickets and PRs.
One side quest. A specific, achievable next move that grows your rarest dimension — with a reason and a reward.
Where the team's rhythm speeds up or slows down. See Lift, Promise, Flow, and Spark side by side, then drill into contributors when the pattern needs context.
Lift, Promise, Flow, and Spark show AI leverage, planning accuracy, cycle time, and developer experience in one compact strip.
The cycle-time breakdown shows where work stops — coding, review, CI, or deploy — so the next move targets the constraint.
One team side quest. A shared growth challenge that fits the current bottleneck and the people on the squad.
A QBR-ready view for engineering leaders. It rolls up squad health, strategic goal fit, LPFS trends, capability depth, and the three moves most likely to improve next quarter.
Health and goal-fit scores show whether the current operating rhythm supports the quarter's priorities.
Squad portfolio and capability depth show where strength is concentrated, where risk is thin, and which goals need attention.
Three recommended moves: Hire, Pair, or Shift. Each is specific enough to put into the next planning conversation.
Tempo replaces deficit language with progression language. You're somewhere on a track — not trapped in a scorecard.
These aren't statements of intent. They are decisions baked into the product. Five risks we designed around — and how.
Most tools hand a leader a dashboard and ask them to interpret it. Tempo does the interpretation, in language the team will read.
Most analytics tools ask you to define what counts as a deployment. Tempo works with whatever conventions your team already uses. Smart defaults. No regex.
Every claim cites the specific tickets and PRs it came from. "You filed RCA notes on 3 of 4 incidents you touched in Q2" — not just "you handle incidents well."
The executive summary shows where the org is off rhythm. The squad view shows where work stops. The contributor card shows the human pattern behind the signal.
Tempo turns delivery, review, planning, and Pulse signals into plain-language stories. When someone asks where a claim came from, the receipts are still there.
The contributor card, squad view, and executive summary tell the team story in language engineers and managers can read together. The Vault is the full source pack underneath — available on demand, never generated by default.
Use it when you need to brief your management chain, support a governance conversation, prepare for an internal review, or simply show your work to a sceptical stakeholder.
If your team uses GitHub and Jira, the evidence already exists. Tempo just shows you the shape it makes.
The five questions every EM, Director, and VP wants answered before they share Tempo with their team.
Each engineer sees their own card before anyone else. Sharing it with their manager is always their choice. Most teams introduce Tempo as a development conversation tool — not a performance review. The Design Promises section above shows how every surface is built around that.
Read-only GitHub and Jira access takes about 5 minutes. Smart defaults mean no config files, no regex, no "what counts as a deployment" workshops. First cards are usually ready inside 20 minutes.
The board returns three specific moves — Hire, Pair, or Shift — each tied to a stated team goal. Not "invest in capability X." Specific people, specific actions, with the expected goal-fit lift quantified.
No. DORA tells you how fast you ship. Tempo tells you the shape of your team — who carries what, where the bench is thin, where archetypes overlap, and which goals your current composition can or can't support. Different question, different answer.
Yes. The executive summary is built for an EM → leadership conversation. If you also need source-level backing with receipts and traceability, ask for The Vault — it's opt-in, never generated by default.
Those tools answer "what work is happening?" Tempo answers "who are these people, and is the team shaped right for what we're trying to build?" Many teams run both — the views barely overlap.
We'll reach out when Tempo is live. No spam — just the launch date and first-access invite.