AI CHIEF OF STAFF FOR ENGINEERING TEAMS

Your board updates itself.
You're still steering.

Tandem reads every commit, pull request, ticket and doc your team touches — and turns that into ready-to-approve drafts, status summaries and risk flags. Nothing ships, assigns, or sends without a human saying yes.

0 autonomous actions taken 100% human-approved <1wk to first standup
The problem

Teams don't stay on Jira because they love it.

They stay because switching means moving every ticket, rebuilding every integration, and relearning muscle memory. That inertia is real — and it's exactly what costs your team hours every single week.

5+ hrs
lost per person, per week, writing status updates that mostly go unread
Days
before a blocker actually surfaces — after it's already cost the sprint
the same ticket re-explained to engineer, PM, QA, and exec — separately
Why Tandem

Subordinate by design, not autonomous.

Generic AI project managers plan sprints and assign work on their own — and fail quietly, on the parts you can't easily check. Tandem does the opposite: it only touches what's low-risk and high-toil, and hands every judgment call back to you.

— Autonomous AI PMs

  • Auto-assigns work based on its own judgment
  • Auto-commits sprint scope and deadlines
  • Sends messages without approval
  • Invents estimates with no team history

+ Tandem

  • Drafts a breakdown, you edit and approve it
  • Flags risk, you decide what to do about it
  • Drafts replies, you send them
  • Shows your team's real velocity, you commit the number
01 / UNDERSTAND

Index everything

Tickets, code, pull requests, commits and docs, continuously pulled into one live, connected model of the project.

02 / EXPLAIN

Render it per person

The same ticket reads differently for the assignee, the PM, the reviewer, or an exec — because they need different things.

03 / ASSIST

Draft, don't decide

Breakdowns, replies, reminders and flags — every one a draft that waits for a human to approve before it's real.

Features

Everything your board needs. None of it manual.

Eight jobs Tandem takes off your plate — every one reviewable, none of them silent.

[ticket-qa]

Ticket quality checks

Flags vague tickets, missing acceptance criteria, and tickets that are quietly too big to be one piece of work.

[role-aware]

Personalized explanations

One ticket, read differently by the assignee, the reviewer, another team, or an exec — in the depth each of them actually needs.

[reminders]

Reminders & escalation

Nudges a stalled assignee, reminds a slow reviewer, and escalates politely to a lead if something stays stuck.

[conflicts]

Conflict detection

Flags two tickets touching the same file, a dependency that isn't finished yet, or a double-booked teammate.

[code-aware]

Repo-aware context

Surfaces the files, tests, past PRs, and docs relevant to a new ticket — before anyone has to go dig for them.

[draft-reply]

Smart draft replies

Drafts an accurate answer to "is this ready for QA?" or "any blockers?" — pulled from real state, not a guess.

[standups]

Automated standups

A "did / doing / blocked" summary drafted each morning from real activity. You confirm it, or tweak it.

[estimate]

Estimation assist

Shows what the last three tickets like this one actually took your team — so you estimate with data, not a guess.

[ask]

Ask your project anything

"What's blocking the SSO launch?" — answered directly from tickets, PRs and commits, in plain language.

Trust model

Every output is a draft. You approve what becomes real.

This is the whole risk model, in one file.

+drafts a ticket breakdown for a human to edit
-auto-assigns work based on its own judgment
+generates status summaries from real activity
-auto-commits sprint scope or deadlines
+flags stale, blocked, or conflicting work
-sends a message without human approval
+surfaces relevant files, docs, and history
-makes the final call on ambiguous priority
+drafts replies and status answers
-invents an estimate without team history
Pricing

Start where you are.

No migration required to try it — connect read-only and see value in week one.

Starter
$12/ engineer / mo
  • Ticket quality checks
  • Automated standups
  • Reminders & escalation
  • Conflict flags
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Scale
Custom/ annual
  • Everything in Growth
  • SSO, audit log, on-prem index
  • Dedicated success
  • SLAs
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Roadmap

Where Tandem is headed.

NOW – 6MO

Wedge and prove trust

GitHub + one PM tool integration. Ticket quality, standups, reminders, conflict flags. First 20 design-partner teams.

6 – 18MO

Deepen code awareness

Full repo indexing, smart replies, estimation assist. Becomes the system of record for new teams.

18 – 36MO

Expand the surface

Cross-tool support for Linear, Jira, GitLab. Exec dashboards. Org-wide risk view.

36MO+

Platform for the AI-native team

Extend understand → explain → assist to design, QA, and support.

Get started

Bring Tandem to your repo.

Connect read-only. Get your first automated standup within a week. No migration, no lock-in, nothing sent without your say-so.