There is a specific breaking point in every engineering organization: 50 engineers.
At 20 engineers, you know everyone’s name, their strengths, and what they shipped yesterday.
At 50 engineers, you rely on layers of management. Information becomes filtered. You lose the ground truth.
To solve this, corporate executives often hire a Chief of Staff — a strategic operator who bypasses hierarchy to get raw data and ensure alignment.
Hiring a human Chief of Staff for engineering is expensive and limited.
A human cannot read every Jira ticket.
A human cannot analyze every GitHub commit for risk.
A human introduces bias: “I feel like the project is going well.”
Even the best Chief of Staff operates on interviews, not telemetry.
Engineering is a data-rich environment. Your truth already lives in your systems — Linear, GitHub, Slack.
An AI Chief of Staff is uniquely positioned to aggregate this data into actionable intelligence.
It creates god view by showing skills, capacity, and risks across the entire organization in real time.
It creates alignment by ensuring the work happening in GitHub matches the priorities set in Jira.
It operates 24/7, continuously scanning for burnout signals and delivery risks.
NotchUp isn’t just a tool. It is a strategic partner.
It gives you the visibility of a 20-person startup with the scale of a 500-person enterprise.
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