Socratic

Name: Socratic
Rating: 5.0 (3 reviews)

Intelligent task management for modern software teams

5.0•3 reviews•

386 followers

Intelligent task management for modern software teams

5.0•3 reviews•

386 followers

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Productivity

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Project management software

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Team collaboration software

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.

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Launch tags:Productivity•Task Management•Artificial Intelligence

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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!

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3yr ago

Socratic

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Thanks @cubosupport!

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3yr ago

@bradhipps Congratulation! "This decade will be about engineering intelligence. Here's that beginning. Keen to hear feedback!". Very interesting! The very best of luck!

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3yr ago

Socratic

Maker

Thank you @victoria_wu & @omar_aslan!

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3yr ago

@bradhipps ongratulation!

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3yr ago

Socratic

Maker

Thanks @lina_lina3!

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3yr ago

💡 Bright idea

Congrats on the launch; the pitch is definitely appealing. I am missing a key part of the integration - do you and how integrate with GitHub. And if you do, are you able to somehow harvest the prior project data from it to calculate per-developer efficacy? Good luck with the launch, and your product.

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3yr ago

Socratic

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@sasha_krsmanovic Our Github integration processes commits, branches, and PRs for automation type interactions–moving tasks, task activity, etc. These are all configurable per Workstream. We also ingest data around Pull Requests (or merge requests if you're coming from another platform) to illuminate how efficient your code flow is in the last mile. We have plans of doing much, much more with code repository events. We're working on interpreting the git event data to do exactly what you mention: How do commits translate to efficiency and progress? What kind of coding language takes longer? And so on. The sky is the limit!

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3yr ago

Socratic

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@sasha_krsmanovic Appreciate it! Very good question. We integrate with GitHub (and GitLab). Git integration with Socratic unlocks a few things: ✅ Task movement in Socratic can be automated based on the corresponding git actions you define. Meaning, developers don't have to worry about updating task work phases; they can focus on code. (This part is a commodity capability, but for a reason. It's useful.) ✅ Our model for building forecasts for tasks and other larger bodies of work derives from analysis of historical actual time to complete previous like work. When that work has code activity behind it, and when that code activity has automated e.g. the start and completion dates, our model has more to go on, for richer forecasts. ✅ We also surface code analytics as part of our Trends capability. Today, this means showing things like average time to merge, and PR throughput (which can be sliced/diced by just about any variable--team, initiative, location, type of work, etc.). We trend this data over time, showing how it's changing against your historical averages, so you can see what needs attention and why. Today, we don't absorb historical git data ("historical" here means before the Socratic integration) for analysis-- but we very well might add that in the future.

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3yr ago

@bradhipps @bduims Thank you so much; I will get our tech team to take a look into this a lot more now.

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3yr ago

Socratic

Maker

@sasha_krsmanovic Beautiful. They should feel free to ping me with any further questions.

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3yr ago

Sequoia

Congratulations on your launch! Seems interesting 🤔 What makes you unique and different from Trello, Asana, Jira and other Management tools?

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3yr ago

Socratic

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@asaskevich In a word, data. As teams work in Socratic (creating tasks, moving tasks, building plans, defining objectives, etc.), we harness the work activity to show overall work health. We sometimes say Socratic is like a fitness tracker for teams.

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3yr ago

Socratic

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@asaskevich great question! We've built Socratic from the ground-up with intelligence in mind whereas most other task management tools focus on core task management. We automatically create estimates, we create forecasts for any body of work. We provide an opinionated view how work is trending at any level with an ability to spot root causes. These are just a few examples. Hope that helps.

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3yr ago

This sounds really interesting! How exactly does Socratic determine productivity intelligence? Can't wait to try it out for my team's task management.

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3yr ago

Socratic

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@mehdi_rifai "Productivity intelligence" is a bit of a mouthful, admittedly! It really comes down to the health of work: is work in a good, flowing state, with things moving from start to finish as efficiently as possible, or are things getting bottlenecked, or is scope changing wildly, etc. We really built Socratic by starting with the questions that we, as product and engineering leaders, had always struggled to answer. Questions like: ✅ What needs attention and why? ✅ How's our speed? How's our throughput? ✅ Who's underwater, work-wise, and who has capacity ✅ Are we improving over time? What should be our focus areas?

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3yr ago

I love the analytics that Socratic shows me, helps me understand my team and my workflows. As a PM, I love how the interface doesn’t get in my way, it just lets me do my work. And it makes my sprint planning and sprint review super easy. Congrats team!

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3yr ago

Socratic

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@oatsandsugar Happy it's been valuable! Data-wise, we got a whole lotta more cool stuff to come!

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3yr ago

Socratic

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@oatsandsugar great to hear! You are describing many of the benefits we've tried build into the product.

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3yr ago

This looks super cool! Unfortunately as with all new task management software, my team is just too entrenched in ClickUp for me to make any sort of switch at this point. It would be amazing if it could somehow integrate with a tool like ClickUp and pull these insights from my existing system (:

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3yr ago

Socratic

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@jamie_dowis Understood! We actually tried in a previous life to do what you suggest--essentially, to "overlay" existing task tools--and the results weren't great. It's tough to provide users actionable intelligence, at the time they most need it, when you aren't the system where the work is actually being done. That said, we do integrate with git (GitHub, GitLab), not only to automate task movement, but to enrich our own work intelligence with analytics we build from code activity. We will definitely do the same with other complementary systems in software dev-- CI/CD comes to mind.

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3yr ago

Documentation.AI

Congratulations on the launch! Every time I use Jira, I always think why there is no better tool than Jira. This looks like a solution

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3yr ago

Socratic

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@roopreddy How many times can I upvote this comment? ;)

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3yr ago

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