Socratic

Socratic started from a single, lasting frustration. Every task tool we've ever used was high tax, low return. In those tools, you do all the data entry, and then you do all the sorting, sifting, and spelunking to try to understand the state of work. We wondered: what if we flipped the equation? What if we made a task system that works for you? What if we built something that wasn't just Jira with nicer lipstick, something that was much more than (as one early Socratic user described Jira), "A form UI over a database that tells me nothing about the way we work"? Enter Socratic. Socratic harnesses your work activity and shows ways of working easier, faster, better—all with no manual inputs. Your daily activity drives Socratic's insights; real-time insights drive stronger work health. Think of it as a fitness tracker for teams. What does this mean, practically? A few examples: ✅ Rather than tying up engineering cycles debating story points or t-shirt sizes—time-consuming work that's inevitably wrong—estimated effort is delivered automatically based on historical actuals by person and type of work. ✅ Instead of explaining the amount of work on your plate (something that may change daily), we compute and show in real-time the work distribution for you and your teammates. ✅ In place of debating and guesstimating when work will finish, Socratic renders an intelligent forecast, based on historical actuals, workloads, and a range of other variables not otherwise available to the human eye. ✅ For executive or board meetings, product and engineering leaders graduate from pivot tables and hand-rolled reports to instant, benchmarked performance data and recommendations, based on trends over the previous months, quarters, or years. The past decades have been about engineering automation (DevOps, etc.). This decade will be about engineering intelligence. Here's that beginning. Keen to hear feedback!

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Always hate estimating, so this is going to be useful!