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market profile

• text: The product's documentation describes mapping execution against plans and explaining engineering work to nontechnical stakeholders.
• text: Engineering leaders can compare investment allocation and delivery analytics products including Jellyfish and LinearB.
• text: The main website currently returns a Framer site-not-found page, so current operations and product availability are uncertain.

personas

• title: VP of Engineering
  pains:

  • Must explain resource allocation and whether engineering work supports business goals.
  • Hiring and prioritization decisions are difficult when activity is disconnected from intent.
• title: Engineering manager
  pains:

  • Plans drift from execution without an accessible shared view.
  • Manual reporting consumes time that could be spent helping the team deliver.
• title: CTO
  pains:

  • Business partners and investors need a clear account of engineering impact, not raw activity counts.
  • Organizational silos obscure alignment between engineering work and company priorities.

icp

• text: Software companies with engineering teams and leaders accountable for aligning capacity with business priorities; target company size is not specified.
• text: Organizations where engineering management must communicate execution and impact to finance, executives or investors.

message pillars

• text: Surface actual work so teams can address misalignment.
• text: Make engineering activity understandable beyond the engineering organization.
• text: Respect engineers while helping them do their best work.

objections

• objection: Will measurement reward activity counts rather than outcomes?
  response: The documentation emphasizes work context and business goals; assess the actual reports and agree safeguards with engineers.
• objection: Why add another tool to our project tracking?
  response: Compare whether existing reporting connects work to intent and makes plan-versus-execution gaps visible; validate any current integrations.
• objection: Is the product still available?
  response: The main domain currently returns site not found; confirm service availability directly before evaluating or purchasing.

competitors

• name: Jellyfish
  why: Engineering investment allocation and business alignment analytics.
• name: LinearB
  why: Engineering workflow and investment allocation analytics.
• name: Swarmia
  why: Engineering effectiveness and investment reporting for engineering teams.

influencers

• name: Arnaud Porterie
  url: https://dev.to/icecrime/transitioning-from-cto-to-founder-2baa
  why: Founder and former engineering executive who wrote about starting Echoes.

keywords

• engineering business alignment
• engineering investment allocation
• engineering activity reports
• engineering effectiveness metrics
• engineering impact reporting
• engineering delivery analytics

voice

• thoughtful
• business-oriented
• respectful of engineers

signals

• text: Engineering leaders preparing board-level allocation or business impact reports may seek a shared evidence base.
• text: A reorganization or hiring review can expose uncertainty about where engineering effort goes.

stack

• GitLab

pricing

motion

channels

• Atlassian Marketplace
• developer community

confidence

Founders

• name: Arnaud Porterie
  title: Founder
  role: Founder
  bio: 🦋 ex Dep. CTO @ Veepee 🐳 ex Sr. Engineering Manager @ Docker 🇳🇱 Paris, SF, now Amsterdam 📸 Photo enthusiast 👌 It's pronounced Arno