Agentic coaching for engineering leaders

Don't hire your next EM. Compress leadership instead.

Relic Pulse turns scattered signals from GitHub, Jira, Slack, and your leveling rubric into a real-time leadership narrative, so one engineering manager can confidently lead 15+ ICs without losing context, fairness, or velocity.

See how it works
Automated coaching: real-time guidance, no context-hunting.
Fair reviews: continuous evidence, free of bias.
Adapts to your framework: plug in your leveling guide, get instant insights.
overview · weekly · live
Your Engineering Team
15+ direct reports · last synced 4 min ago
Improving
3.1
Velocity
Action
−18%
2.4
Leverage
Direction
−9%
4.5
Morale
Culture
−4%
3.8
Growth
Trajectory
+1%
SC
Sarah Chen
Staff Software Engineer · L6
4.3 PRs On track
JM
Jake Morrison
Mobile Engineer · L4
2.1 PRs Burnout risk
AP
Aisha Patel
Tech Lead · L7
5.8 PRs L8 ready
growth · sarah chen · L6
Promotion Readiness Radar
Sarah Chen · L6 → L7 · sustained 4 months
Promotion Ready
Meeting L7 Meeting L6 Below L6

Applying agentic reasoning to leadership decisions, calibration, and coaching.

How it works

Three layers. One narrative.

Relic Pulse isn't another dashboard. It continuously synthesizes signals from the tools you already use into a prescriptive story of team health, surfacing what matters, when it matters.

1

Multi-source signal ingestion

Privacy-first connectors across GitHub, Jira, Slack, Linear, PagerDuty, Google Workspace, and your leveling rubric. Source code and private messages never leave your environment — only redacted metadata reaches Pulse.

2

The AI Storyteller

Raw signals become natural-language narratives. The system identifies gaps, surfaces Quiet Heroes whose impact exceeds their PR count, and tells the story your dashboards can't.

Burnout risk
Jamie's velocity dropped −12% this week
42% of Jamie's PRs landed late-night. They're answering 47 Slack threads from Marketing while their own Stripe integration has stalled at DevOps review for 72 hours.
3

Continuous, agentic coaching

Pulse surfaces coaching moments the instant signals emerge: a stalled IC, an unblocked bottleneck, a promotion-ready quiet hero. EMs stay in the loop as gatekeepers; over time, more nudges fire automatically.

Schedule a focus 1:1 with Jamie
Help Jamie deprioritize the cross-team Slack support and shield their focus time so the Stripe integration can ship by Friday.
Agentic 1:1 Prep

Every 1:1 walks in already prepared.

15 minutes before each 1:1, Pulse delivers a Slack cheat sheet with wins, blockers, and open coaching threads. No more "what did you ship this week?" — coach across 15+ engineers without context-hunting.

JM
1:1 with Jake Morrison
Mobile Engineer · L4 · auto-prepared
Thu 2:00pm
15 min
Win: Auth-Service refactor shipped. Complexity 8.7, no production incidents.
Blocker: Stripe integration stalled 72h on DevOps review. Escalate?
Topic: Operating at L5 in mentorship. Discuss leading the V2 architecture review?
Strategic framework

Four scores. One pulse.

Every signal your team produces, every PR, ticket, Slack thread, peer review, rolls up into four strategic scores. Action, direction, culture, and growth, mathematically separated and continuously calibrated.

Built on top of your company's internal leveling rubric. Upload your framework — Pulse translates signals into the four scores you use to make decisions.

your rubric · synced
eng-leveling-2026.pdf → ingested
Execution
Execution
Impact
Impact
Eng Excellence
Eng Excellence
Prioritization
Prioritization
Collaboration
Collaboration
Mentorship
Mentorship
Scope
Scope
Communication
Communication
Championing
Championing
3.1
Velocity
Action
2.4
Leverage
Direction
4.5
Morale
Culture
3.8
Growth
Trajectory
One solution for every stage

Autonomous Enterprise.

Where you are
Human managers, human ICs.
  • Orgs flattening — more reports per manager
  • 1:8 → 1:20+ humans per manager
  • Proactive coaching, not reactive
  • Fair calibration at scale
As you grow
Hybrid: humans + agent ICs.
  • Agents are cheap — fleets grow exponentially
  • 1:20+ humans → 1:100+ agents
  • Detect agent drift and conflicts early
  • Coaching automated — humans handle exceptions
The endgame
The autonomous enterprise.
  • Context spans every discipline
  • 1:100+ agents → 1:every discipline
  • 1 human, 1 company — exponential leverage
  • Cross-discipline training becomes the company's brain
One vendor. One platform. No replatforming as your org evolves.
Match your growth stage

Choose between 3 tiers.

From a 30-person scale-up to a 3,000-person enterprise. Adopt the tier that fits your stage today, and the same platform carries you through every era above.

Tier 1
Tier 1 · Pilot
Early-stage scale-up
For 20–50 person teams with 2–3 EMs · Multi-tenant SaaS, OAuth setup, zero infra
  • Full Pulse dashboard & AI Coach
  • OAuth connectors (GitHub, Slack, Linear)
  • Postgres row-level isolation
  • Founding-tier pricing locked in
Tier 2
Tier 2 · Growth
Series-B efficiency play
For 80–200 person teams with 6–10 EMs · CMEK, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR-ready
  • Everything in Tier 1
  • Customer-Managed Encryption Keys
  • Dedicated DB / schema isolation
  • SSO, audit logs, advanced rubric mapping
  • Dedicated success engineer
Tier 3
Tier 3 · Enterprise
AI-transformed enterprise
For 500+ engineers · Hybrid private cloud, full data sovereignty, local LLM support
  • Everything in Tier 2
  • On-prem Collector (Docker / K8s)
  • Local LLM (NVIDIA NIM compatible)
  • Outbound-only architecture
  • Custom rubric + level framework
Quantifying the leak

A 100-engineer org leaks $2.1M a year to manual management.

Industry-benchmarked numbers for the cost of context-hunting, headcount bloat, and recency-biased calibration. At 3,000 engineers, the leak compounds to $64M+ annually.

Management friction
$0K
Productivity loss to context-switching
Headcount bloat
$0K
Excess EMs from a 1:8 manager-to-IC ceiling
Transparency & privacy

Built so engineers trust the signal.

Shared transparency

EMs and ICs see the same career growth and performance signals. No hidden scorecards. Pulse is a career advocate, not a surveillance tool.

Standardized across the company

Your leveling framework drives every score. Calibration becomes consistent across teams, not subject to manager-by-manager interpretation.

Industry-benchmarked, in real-time

Compare team health against anonymized industry standards. Updated continuously, not in quarterly reports.

PII redacted at the source

Sensitive data is anonymized before it leaves your environment. Pulse only processes redacted metadata and AI-synthesized summaries.

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The future of leadership is compressed.

If you're leading engineering at a growing organization, or drowning in the manual work of being an EM, let's talk.

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