KATA removes the overhead from your eng team so you have more time for building! It streamlines standups, Slack thread parsing, tool sleuthing, even writing team updates. Everything your team needs to go faster, minus the effort to get it, all in one place.
Hey hunters! I’m the founder here at KATA. Our whole team and I are incredibly excited to share our Teams launch with you! 🚀
Our mission at KATA is simple, to get organizations out of the way of their builders.
We do this by fixing the noise and toil in software development: reporting burdens, priority misalignments, out-of-date rituals, and siloed information. And KATA Teams does this at the most important part of any tech company - it’s engineering team.
But what gets in the way of teams?
🗄️ Well if you’re like us, and if you’re here, you love trying new tools. But how many tools do you have to use on a daily basis to get the information you need just to do your job? Information silos anyone…
📆 And then come the meetings to fill in the gaps. How many “quick syncs” get thrown on your calendar or 1:1’s that turn into update sessions?
⏰ When was the last time your team standup actually took 15 minutes? We have to make sure to get out every little detail because how else would people know what we’ve been up to. There’s no better way to stay in-sync so we force a mandatory meeting we end up zoning out in, and we get to repeat it tomorrow!
🙈 And do we even need to say anything more about Slack?!
We’ve already tamed the chaos on engineering projects, and starting today we’re bringing that same streamlined goodness to engineering teams!
➡️ All your team’s tool activity, all in one self-updating dashboard so there’s no more hunting around to figure out who’s doing what.
➡️ Automatically generated standup updates to streamline your standups (and dare we say even start to cancel some).
➡️ Automatically summarized Slack threads, available on-demand.
➡️ A team demo feed (that people can actually find!) so you have a progress highlight reel to extend visibility to the rest of your company.
➡️ No more writing team update emails, KATA AI will draft it for you from all of the work your team is doing day-to-day.
And the best part, it only takes minutes to set up, with zero maintenance or coordination required. Connect your tools, create your team and KATA will take it from there.
Oh and did we mention it’s FREE with no seat or usage caps! KATA Teams will help with individual teams, and as you scale and your work gets more complex we’re there for you with KATA Projects (and KATA Groups after that for initiatives and goals).
KATA isn’t yet another project management tool, or standup bot, or some other existing category (or micro-category) thing. We’re building across categories to reflect how work actually gets done in modern engineering teams! It’s the tool we wished we all had in our former lives, but couldn’t find, so we decided to build it.
And we’re just getting started. So please check it out and send us your feedback and feature requests. We hope you join us on this journey, and enjoy a more modern way of working!
Cheers to the builders 🛠️,
The Team at KATA
Having been a human collector of data from many tools, bothering builders for updates, and producing reports, this is very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Congrats team KATA on the launch! 🙌 Super excited to try out the new Teams features, auto summaries of everything my team is doing is gonna save so much time.
Alignment is one of the most difficult problems to solve in teams - making sure we're all on the same page and pulling in the same direction. Manual nfo relay just gets in the way and distracts from heads-down work. Less noise, more focus is the dream! Congrats @brentbarkman! Looks like this is it!!
it looks more like a project management tool. which mamagement framework is it based on? n why r u better tjhan monday j similar apps? congratulations
Congratulations on the launch! Awesome to see the team continuing to innovate and provide value!
Congrats to you and the team @brentbarkman. Genuinely excited to finally have a solution to a problem that seems to be solved by the vicious cycle of adding more process and then removing it, before adding it in again 😅.
Congratulations on the launch - loads of potential and a stellar team points to great things to come!
This is exactly what I need with my teams! Congrats on the launch. Excited to try it out!
Great idea. I'm so sick of scrolling through slacks trying to work out what the hell's going on. Thanks for making it and congrats on the launch!
Wow, looks amazing! Can't wait to check it out! Really like the automated standup and status reports. Can't say how much time I've spent compiling those kinds of updates/reports... having a single centralized place that has visibility into everything, and can generate reports for me seems like a huge time saver. I think our team would really love having the centralized place to see what everyone is up to and stopping the non stop barrage of slack messages that everyone misses. Awesome job!
Having everything in one place, always available and knowing what's going on inside your teams without bugging anyone is such a game-changer!
It seems like this is exactly how work inside engineering teams supposed to get done, but until know, you couldn't.
Well done Brent on this launch
As someone working on projects with information spread across Google Docs, Confluence, Gitlab, Jira, MS Teams and of course Slack... KATA-Teams is a HUGE quality of life improvement! There are so many random bits of information just lost somewhere in the current workflow, and email status reports??? Forget it. I've been watching KATA Teams for a bit now and playing around with it on my own, hoping to get my team at work on board, no doubt it's a game changer without forcing you into a single eco system! You can use what works, and still be organized.
