Project Seldon: A Psychohistorical Risk Forecaster
A niche project management tool that analyzes your project's data and communication to forecast future crises and critical failure points, allowing teams to proactively create mitigation plans.
Augur: The Sentient Project Chronicle
An AI-powered tool that analyzes your team's communications to generate narrative-driven, psychological insights into project health. It acts as a 'project psychologist,' identifying risks, sentiment, and team dynamics that traditional tools miss.
Story: In the digital noise of modern project management, teams are overwhelmed by data but starved for wisdom. Endless tickets, notifications, and status updates create a dystopian fog of war. Augur is the 'Blade Runner' sent to find the truth in the chaos; the AI 'Oracle' from the Technocore that reads the data-streams to tell the story of your project's soul. It's not another task manager; it's a sentient chronicle, a 'datasphere' that reflects the human drama of creation.
Concept: Augur is a niche, low-cost SaaS tool that integrates with your existing workflow (Slack, Jira, GitHub, etc.) to provide qualitative, narrative intelligence. It's inspired by the analytical depth of AI workflows, the narrative complexity of 'Hyperion', and the diagnostic, truth-seeking aesthetic of 'Blade Runner'. It performs a conceptual 'Voight-Kampff' test on your project's daily activities to distinguish valuable 'human' effort from synthetic 'busywork,' identifying the underlying emotional and narrative currents that determine success or failure.
How it works:
1. Integration & Ingestion: The user connects Augur to their company's tools via simple OAuth. Augur acts as a read-only scraper, ingesting commit messages, ticket updates, and public Slack conversations. This data forms the project's 'implanted memory.'
2. The AI Core: A lightweight AI model, easily deployable by an individual developer, performs three key analyses:
- Sentiment Tracking: It gauges team morale and frustration levels on a per-feature or per-task basis by analyzing language used in communications.
- Narrative Analysis: It identifies key 'storylines' in the project. For example, the 'redemption arc' of a difficult bug, or the 'tragic backstory' of a deprecated feature. It also flags narrative dissonances (e.g., a task marked complete but still being discussed as problematic).
- Persona Identification: It archetypes project dynamics by identifying emergent, non-personal roles like 'The Gatekeeper' (a component blocking progress), 'The Pilgrim' (a new feature on a journey of discovery), and 'The Shrike' (the immovable deadline or critical-path blocker).
3. The Daily Chronicle: Augur delivers its findings not as complex charts, but as a concise, daily email or Slack message. This 'Chronicle' is written in a clear, narrative style, highlighting key emotional trends, emerging risks, and positive developments. It provides project leads with a deep, at-a-glance understanding of their team's pulse, enabling them to act proactively on human factors before they become project-derailing problems. The interface is minimalist, text-focused, and dark-themed, reinforcing its niche, premium, and analytical nature.
Concept: Augur is a niche, low-cost SaaS tool that integrates with your existing workflow (Slack, Jira, GitHub, etc.) to provide qualitative, narrative intelligence. It's inspired by the analytical depth of AI workflows, the narrative complexity of 'Hyperion', and the diagnostic, truth-seeking aesthetic of 'Blade Runner'. It performs a conceptual 'Voight-Kampff' test on your project's daily activities to distinguish valuable 'human' effort from synthetic 'busywork,' identifying the underlying emotional and narrative currents that determine success or failure.
How it works:
1. Integration & Ingestion: The user connects Augur to their company's tools via simple OAuth. Augur acts as a read-only scraper, ingesting commit messages, ticket updates, and public Slack conversations. This data forms the project's 'implanted memory.'
2. The AI Core: A lightweight AI model, easily deployable by an individual developer, performs three key analyses:
- Sentiment Tracking: It gauges team morale and frustration levels on a per-feature or per-task basis by analyzing language used in communications.
- Narrative Analysis: It identifies key 'storylines' in the project. For example, the 'redemption arc' of a difficult bug, or the 'tragic backstory' of a deprecated feature. It also flags narrative dissonances (e.g., a task marked complete but still being discussed as problematic).
- Persona Identification: It archetypes project dynamics by identifying emergent, non-personal roles like 'The Gatekeeper' (a component blocking progress), 'The Pilgrim' (a new feature on a journey of discovery), and 'The Shrike' (the immovable deadline or critical-path blocker).
3. The Daily Chronicle: Augur delivers its findings not as complex charts, but as a concise, daily email or Slack message. This 'Chronicle' is written in a clear, narrative style, highlighting key emotional trends, emerging risks, and positive developments. It provides project leads with a deep, at-a-glance understanding of their team's pulse, enabling them to act proactively on human factors before they become project-derailing problems. The interface is minimalist, text-focused, and dark-themed, reinforcing its niche, premium, and analytical nature.