Socratic unifies task management with productivity intelligence, to show you how well you work and why, with real-time data to guide your daily decisions to their best result.
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!
@bradhipps Congratulation! "This decade will be about engineering intelligence. Here's that beginning. Keen to hear feedback!". Very interesting! The very best of luck!
Hi @prathamnandha thanks! And yes Socratic looks at the historic performance at both an organisational level and at the level of individual contributors before estimating task delivery.
@prathamnandha - great question. As Brad said, we use a number of variables to determine personalized estimates, and this will continue to evolve over time
@prathamnandha We measure each team members' throughput in task-hours/week. This metric (and others!) feed directly into our forecasting models. But it can also be used to assess the growth of a team member's productivity & skill over time.
I use this product in three ways.
As a PM, I really enjoy how the interface fades into the background and lets me get my work done. I like how it makes sprint planning and review super simple, and helps you transition to a more flexible Kanban if you want.
As an IC, I like how clearly it shows me what I’ve got on my plate, and what blockers I have.
As a member of a team, the analytics serve us information about our productivity like my Whoop gives me information about my sleep. It gathers all the info in the background and presents the insights, showing me bottlenecks and helping me take steps to remediate them.
Can’t wait to see what’s coming next.
Great job on the launch! It's amazing to hear that the product was in closed beta for 523 days. Your dedication and hard work are truly impressive. Best of luck with this exciting new chapter!
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