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Connect
Install the GitHub app and authenticate Jira. Read-only scopes. No new tools for your team to learn.
velar
weekly engineering clarity
Private beta
Weekly engineering clarity, without the reporting ritual.
Velar connects to GitHub and Jira, reads what your team actually shipped, and writes the briefing you'd write yourself if you had a free Sunday night every week.
Connects to
GitHub · Jira
Delivered via
Email · Telegram
Cadence
Weekly · Monthly
Weekly briefing · Hearth Labs
Apr 14 - Apr 21 · for Priya Raman, CEO
delivered
This week's read
Shipping held at 11 merged PRs, below the 14-week baseline of 16. Review queue is the rate-limiter.
Merged PRs
11
down 31% vs. baseline
Cycle time
3.9d
up 0.6d
Bugs closed
23
up 4
Checkout rewrite behind a flag, zero rollback events.
Billing epic slipped a second week; 6 of 9 sub-issues remain in review.
Two engineers carried 58% of review load. Consider rotating ownership on Fridays.
01 · The problem
Engineering output is scattered across four tools. Your weekly read shouldn’t be.
Every Monday you’re reconstructing last week from PR titles, Jira boards, standup notes, and whatever stuck in Slack. By the time you have a picture, the week is half over and the picture is already stale.
What you're piecing together
PR #2184 merged · checkout rewrite
BIL-214 moved to "In review" again
"deploy looks good" · 4 threads, 23 messages
14 PRs open > 48h · 9 awaiting review
+ 437 more events
What Velar writes for you
"Shipping held at 11 merged PRs this week, below your 14-week baseline of 16. The review queue is the rate-limiter. Billing likely slips a third week without a re-scope."
02 · How it works
Four steps. No dashboards for you to check.
Velar does the reading, normalizing, and writing. You get a briefing that reads like a good chief of staff wrote it, grounded in the evidence underneath.
02
Ingest
Velar reads PRs, reviews, commits, issues, and transitions, then normalizes the signal against your team’s baseline.
03
Score
Weekly scorecards surface wins, risks, contributor signals, and what’s actually blocking shipping.
04
Deliver
A written briefing shows up Monday morning in your inbox or Telegram, with full evidence one click away.
03 · What leaders get
The parts of the picture worth paying attention to.
Every brief is built from evidence you can click through to verify. No vanity metrics. No productivity scores.
Wins
What actually shipped this week, in plain English.
Written as outcomes, not commit counts. One sentence per win, with the PRs and owners linked.
Risks
What’s slipping, and why it matters.
Only the delays threatening scope, a commitment, or a downstream dependency.
Contributor signals
Who’s carrying momentum, who’s mixed, who needs a check-in.
Based on sustained patterns across weeks, not single-week spikes. Subjects are systems, not scores.
Leadership actions
Two or three concrete things worth asking about on Monday.
Velar notices the pattern; you decide what to do with it.
04 · Our approach
Designed for small-company decision-making. Built to be trusted.
Velar is not a productivity tracker or surveillance tool. It is a lens on evidence your team already generates, surfaced to the people making calls on where the org goes next.
Not a monitor
An executive briefing
Velar talks about the work, not the workers. No keystrokes, idle timers, or productivity scores.
Not a dashboard
A written read
A brief you read in three minutes beats a dashboard you never open. Full evidence sits one click behind every sentence.
Not vanity metrics
Evidence, baselined
Every number is compared to your team’s own 14-week baseline, not an industry average you can’t act on.
Private beta
The weekly read your team is already writing, just not for you.
Velar is in private beta with founder-CEOs and engineering leaders. Request access and we'll send a sample brief built from a public repo of your choice.