Engineering Manager's AI Copilot for Thriving Developers

Powo provides engineering managers and all of their team members with real-time, actionable feedback and praise. Teams stay aligned with business goals while engineers grow in their career and productivity.

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Alignment for teams, growth for individuals

Powo drives value across all levels

Scales engineering management as if there is one dedicated engineering manager, coach, mentor available to every single developer in the organization, working towards shared product and business outcomes.

For Developers

Powo offers real-time, actionable feedback based on activities. Small improvements foster career growth through effective habits tailored to specific goals and needs of each individual engineer.

For Executive Leadership

Senior leadership and executive teams can focus on business and product strategies, knowing each indicvidual contributor is consistently aligned with higher-level objectives.

For Engineering Managers

Managers can delegate supportive observation and day to day coaching to Powo, shifting their relationships with their reports to higher level alignment, mentoring and growth.

Powo works towards your unique goals on autopilot

Powo integrates seamlessly in the organization's workflow, tools and information, becoming an integral part of the team and collaboration.

Connect with your tools and people

Connect Powo to your tools through powerful integrations. Powo gathers valuable context from your organization's documents, chats, meetings, codebase and agile process. Assign Powo as a personalized mentor to individual contributors.

Set team objectives and individual career goals

Engineering managers tell Powo where to look for business, product and team objectives. They also set individual career growth goals with specific team members, delegating day to day coaching to Powo.

Powo coaches developers in real-time

Powo observes each developer's individual activities such as pull requests, reviews, comments, chats, documents, task progress. Leveraging business objectives and individual growth goals, Powo prioritizes corrective feedback and reinforcing praise to help developers stay motivated, productive and effective.

Leadership enjoy increasing value

Powo's unique approach to individual coaching at scale, leads to constant improvement in engineering productivity metrics based on DORA and SPACE frameworks as well as higher level of achievement in business and product objectives.

Powo seamlessly gets its context from your business and technologies

FAQs

The idea behind Powo is simple and effective, yet, the premise of engineering management and people coaching is quite nuanced and intrinsicly complex. It is fair to have questions and here are the ones we get more often than others.

Is Powo going to become a distraction for developers?

On the contrary, Powo builds on top of the core principles of a thoughtful, experienced and empathetic engineering manager. It respects everyone's unique preferences and priorities.

How is Powo different from a mentor?

Powo is right there all the time and recognizes opportunities in real time, making its feedback highly relatable and actionable as compared to vague and asynchronous generic advice.

Why can't I simply ask ChatGPT for advice?

We can only ask about topics we already know about and only using the information we recognize. Powo goes much beyond that and helps uncover valuable and actionable areas of improvement that the developers aren't aware of.

How does Powo help managers?

Powo scales their presence and availability. Managers cannot realistically keep observing everyone for opportunities of supportive feedback, juggling between wildly different types of responsibilities.

Can Powo replace engineering managers?

No, Powo supplements and scales a very specific engineering management function. EMs still have a far greater and diverse set of responsibilities that Powo does not aim to implement.

We are a small org without managers, can I still use Powo?

Certainly. Powo can still get some overall business direction and objectives from your product, team or business leader to keep developers aligned while helping them improve on engineering practices.

How do I know Powo works?

Measuring a team's effectiveness and productivity is complex. So is measuring a developer's career growth. That said, there currently are applied best practices such as DORA and SPACE frameworks along with 360 performance reviews that signal positive and negative trends alike. Powo sets out to drive those trends significantly on the upside.

Who are you? What makes you experts?

We are a team of seasoned engineering leaders who have been around for decades. We have a track record of building and scaling highly effective teams. More importantly, we share a common passion for supporting engineers in their growth.

What languages do you support?

We are currently supporting English-speaking teams focusing on the depth and nuances of Powo's communication. We'll expand into other languages along with the growing maturity of LLMs in general.

How much does Powo cost?

We are currently partnering with early adopters and focusing on creating value. At this time, we don't charge for it. When we launch publicly, there will be a few subscription tiers that cost in the ballpark of popular engineering intelligence platforms.

Can I use Powo outside of engineering?

Quite possibly. Highly effective and productive engineers often apply and demonstrate habits, behaviors and patterns that easily translate in other professions. That said, Powo currently focuses in optimizing its algorithms mimicing an engineering manager's lens for high success. Nuances matter and the devil is in the details.

What does Powo mean?

Powo is a word play on power. It comes from the notion of empowering developers with alignment and growth.

When will the public launch be?

We don't have a specific date set. We'll release when we're absolutely confident with the value Powo creates and the trust it builds.