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.

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Zero source-code retention. PII redacted at the source.
ICs see exactly what their manager sees.
Automated career advancement. Not a surveillance tool.
overview · weekly · live
Your Engineering Team
15+ engineers as direct reports · pulse 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

Engineers got Cursor, Claude Code and Codex. Their managers got more Slack. Relic Pulse closes the gap — applying the same agentic reasoning to leadership decisions, calibration, and coaching that's already transformed how Engineering teams grow.

How it works

Three layers. One narrative.

Relic Pulse doesn't add another dashboard to your stack. It synthesizes the dashboards you already have into a continuous, prescriptive story of team health.

1

Multi-source signal ingestion

Privacy-first connectors pull from GitHub, Jira, Slack, Linear, PagerDuty, Google Workspace, and your leveling rubric. Source code never leaves your environment — only redacted metadata reaches the cloud.

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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

The AI Coach

Just-in-time prescriptive prompts delivered ahead of each 1:1. Not "here's a problem" — but "here's exactly what to say." Coaching becomes a service, not a burden.

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.

Ahead of each meeting, Pulse synthesizes the IC's wins, blockers, and open coaching threads into a Slack-delivered cheat sheet. No more "what did you ship this week?" — managers walk in with the story already written, ready to 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.

The scores are a clean abstraction layer on top of your company's internal leveling rubric. Upload your existing framework — Engineering Excellence, Impact, Execution, Mentorship, however you've defined it — and Pulse continuously translates the underlying signal into the four scores you actually 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
Code Reviews
Code Reviews
Cycle Time
Cycle Time
Sentiment
Sentiment
3.1
Velocity
Action
2.4
Leverage
Direction
4.5
Morale
Culture
3.8
Growth
Trajectory
Designed for every stage

From your first 10 engineers to your next 10,000.

Three deployment tiers, one product. Whether you're a 30-person scale-up or a 3,000-person enterprise with strict data sovereignty needs, Relic Pulse fits your security posture.

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, status discovery, headcount bloat, and recency-biased calibration. At 3,000 engineers, the leak compounds to $64M+ annually.

Management friction
$780K
Productivity loss to context-switching
Status overhead
$117K
EM payroll wasted on "what happened?"
Headcount bloat
$800K
Excess EMs from 1:8 ceiling
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The future of leadership is compressed.

We're working with a small group of design partners through 2026. If you lead engineering at a growing org, let's talk.

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