AI Program Manager for Engineering Teams

Your team is working.
Now you can see it.

Strova organises your daily standups with AI-guided updates from engineers — and turns them into productivity scores, blocker alerts, and a live CEO dashboard. Automatically.

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The problem

The cost of flying blind

Engineering teams lose thousands of hours a year to status overhead — and most leaders never see it coming.

58%

Of every workday is “work about work”

Status chasing, unnecessary meetings, and tool switching — not actual engineering output.

Asana Anatomy of Work, 2023 · n=9,615 knowledge workers

45% over budget.

56% less value.

The average large IT project doesn't just run late — it delivers dramatically less than planned, with no early warning until it's too late.

McKinsey & University of Oxford · 5,400+ IT projects

1 in 3

Projects meet all goals and timelines

The rest miss scope, deadline, or budget — often all three.

PMI Pulse of the Profession

4.9 hrs

Wasted per person, per week

What knowledge workers estimate they could reclaim with better processes and automated coordination.

Asana Anatomy of Work, 2023

23 min

Lost after every interruption

The average time a developer needs to fully refocus after being pulled away for a status question.

UC Irvine · Gloria Mark

50%

Of teams spend a full day per month on status

Manually collating project updates across Slack, email, and spreadsheets — every single month.

Industry research

Product

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

Three tightly integrated features that turn your team's daily habits into a fully automated management layer.

For engineers

Submit your update in 4 minutes. Then get back to building.

No standup meetings, no templates, no Slack pings asking for status. Engineers type their update in plain language — the AI asks the right follow-up questions and structures everything automatically. The entire process takes under five minutes.

  • Write naturally — no format or template to follow
  • AI asks follow-ups so nothing important gets missed
  • Done once a day, then back to deep work
No interruptions
Zero template work
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Daily Update — Frontend Team

AI assistant active

AI
Hey Sarah 👋 Let's get your daily update done. What did you work on yesterday?
Finished the auth refactor and reviewed two PRs from Jake.
AI
Nice! How many lines changed in the auth refactor? And were there any blockers?
~340 lines. No blockers, but the session token migration needs a DB migration script.
AI
Got it. What's on your plate today?
Write the migration script and start on the password reset flow.
AI
Perfect — update looks complete. Posting to the DSM Board now ✓
Type your update…
usestrova.com/dsm-board

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Today

2/3 posted
Pending (1)
Jake Morales
Posted (2)
Sarah Chen
5m 23s 2m 15s 9:14 AM

Yesterday: Completed auth refactor (~340 lines). Reviewed 2 PRs from Jake.

Today: Write DB migration script for session tokens. Start password reset flow.

PR Reviews: Reviewed #234 (auth middleware) — approved. Left comments on #238 (token refresh).

Meetings: Sprint planning 10–11 AM.

Tom Riley
4m 10s 1m 48s 9:32 AM

Yesterday: Fixed stale cache bug in the API layer. Pair-programmed with Dana on rate limiting.

Today: Add unit tests for cache module. Work through PR review queue.

PR Reviews: Reviewed #241 (cache invalidation) — requested changes.

Meetings: 1:1 with Sarah at 3 PM.

Blockers: Waiting on design spec for error states — can't finish the UI component without it.

For engineering managers

Know what your team is doing without asking.

Stop chasing updates across Slack, email, and one-on-ones. The DSM Board gives you a live view of every engineer's progress, blockers, and plans — updated automatically, every morning. Your 30-minute standup becomes a 5-minute scan.

  • Spot blockers before they derail the sprint
  • See who's posted and who hasn't — instantly
  • Review any past day without scheduling a meeting
Manager clarity
Zero manual chasing

For CEOs and CTOs

See exactly where your teams stand — before it's too late.

You shouldn't need a quarterly review to know if a team is struggling. Strova surfaces productivity trends, early warning signals, and weekly AI narratives automatically — so you can act on problems while there's still time to fix them.

  • Daily productivity scores per engineer — no manual work
  • Weekly AI narrative: what went well, what's at risk
  • Catch underperformance and blockers weeks earlier
CEO-level visibility
Early warning signals
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Reporting

Next report · Mon, Apr 28, 2025

SC

Sarah Chen

Update submitted

88

Overall (7 Day Avg)

Today7-day avg
Task Completion
100%
Planning Quality
100%
Blocker Comm.
100%
Timeliness
100%
Dependency
50%

Achievements

  • Completed auth refactor ahead of schedule
  • Reviewed 2 PRs, unblocking teammates

Suggestions

  • Add test coverage to the migration script before merging
JM

Jake Morales

No update today

73

Overall (7 Day Avg)

Last recorded7-day avg
Task Completion
50%
Planning Quality
100%
Blocker Comm.
100%
Timeliness
100%
Dependency
0%

How it works

From chaos to clarity in three steps

Your team keeps working the way they always have. Strova handles the rest.

usestrova.com/daily-updates
AI
Hey! What did you work on yesterday?
Finished the auth refactor and reviewed 2 PRs.
AI
Any blockers on the migration script?
Type your update…
1

AI agent collects & completes updates

An AI agent chats with each team member, collects their daily update, and ensures it's complete — asking follow-up questions for missing context, blockers, or vague entries before anything is submitted.

usestrova.com/dsm-board
SC
Sarah Chen9:14 AM
Yesterday

Auth refactor (~340 lines)

Reviewed 2 PRs from Jake

Today

Write DB migration script

Start password reset flow

Blockers
None
2

Updates are posted to the DSM Board

Once the AI is satisfied the update is complete, it structures it into Yesterday / Today / Blockers and posts it to the team's DSM Board — ready for the standup.

usestrova.com/reporting
Weekly KPI ReportAuto-generated
Frontend
Backend
Design
SC
Sarah Chen88
JM
Jake Morales76
PN
Priya Nair94
3

CEOs and CTOs get full visibility

Productivity scores, early warnings, and team health reports are generated automatically. No spreadsheets, no stand-up meetings.

Will my engineers actually use it?

Yes — because Strova doesn't change how they work. Engineers keep posting updates through a quick AI chat — it takes under five minutes. Strova's AI asks the right follow-up questions and structures everything automatically. No templates to fill in, no spreadsheets to update, no extra meetings. The AI does the heavy lifting so your team doesn't have to.

4.5 min

Average time to submit an update

A quick AI chat, done

Zero

Meetings or spreadsheets

AI handles structure and follow-ups

100%

Adoption in the first week

Because there's nothing new to adopt

The impact

The numbers speak for themselves

10×

Faster standup review

for engineering managers

100%

Daily update coverage

across the entire team

0 hrs

Manual reporting time

AI handles it all

Who it's for

Built for every layer of the org

Strova gives each role exactly what they need — no more, no less.

Engineering Managers

See every team member's daily progress, productivity trend, and blockers in one place — without sitting through a 30-minute standup.

Individual Contributors

Submit updates the way you already do. Strova structures them for you — no templates, no formatting rules, no extra work.

Leadership & Executives

Stop flying blind. Get a live CEO dashboard with team productivity scores, blocker alerts, and weekly AI reports — built for decision-makers, not just PMs.

What customers say

“Before Strova, I had no real visibility into what our teams were doing day-to-day unless I sat in on standups or chased managers for updates. Now I open my dashboard every morning and I can see exactly where we stand — who's blocked, who's ahead, and where the risks are. It's the kind of clarity I used to get only in quarterly reviews, but now I have it every single day.”
S

Sanjeev R.

Engineering Manager

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Your team is working.
Now you can see it.

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