OctoFirst

Good engineering practices erode without anyone noticing.

Reviews, code quality, delivery flow, collaboration: are they getting better or worse? OctoFirst reads your Git activity and gives your team a clear answer, every week.

✕ Code complexity drifts up and no one notices until it's too late

✕ Pull requests grow larger and reviews feel less and less useful

✕ The team delivers, but it's hard to tell if practices are actually improving

✓ OctoFirst gives your team the visibility to improve, week after week

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Quality erodes slowly. Then all at once.

These challenges don't show up in standups. They accumulate quietly until they slow everything down.

Complexity creeps in silently

Cyclomatic complexity rises a little each month. Class cohesion degrades. Nobody tracks it because there's no simple way to see it. Until the rewrite conversation starts.

Reviews lose their value

PRs grow bigger, reviews become rubber stamps, and feedback loops get longer. The practice that should improve quality becomes a formality.

Knowledge stays in a few heads

Critical modules are understood by one or two people. It's not about blame: it's a resilience risk. When knowledge isn't shared, the whole team is fragile.

Delivery feels busy but not smooth

Lots of activity, but merge times grow, PR sizes increase, and it's hard to tell if things are getting better or worse. You feel it. You just can't measure it.

Three dimensions. One clear picture.

OctoFirst scores your engineering health weekly on three axes. No vanity metrics: just what matters.

Speed

How fast does code go from PR to production?

Time to first review
Merge cycle by repo
Blocked PRs with root cause
Throughput trends

Collaboration

Is knowledge shared across the team?

Review coverage & balance
Team collaboration graph
Bus factor per module
Knowledge distribution insights

Quality

Is your codebase getting better or worse?

Cyclomatic complexity trends
Class cohesion (LCOM)
PR size analysis
Per-repo quality scoring

What you actually see

Not just data. Answers to the questions you ask in every engineering review.

How does your team collaborate?

OctoFirst builds a collaboration graph from review activity. You see how knowledge flows, which parts of the codebase bring people together, and where collaboration could be stronger.

Are PRs getting bigger or smaller?

Track PR size, frequency, and per-developer volume over time. When PRs shrink and reviews speed up, you know your culture is improving. When they don't, you know where to look.

What's slowing down the delivery flow?

See merge time per repo and understand why PRs get stuck: missing review, long discussions, CI failures. Turn vague "it's slow" into concrete improvements.

What did we ship this month?

AI categorizes every merged PR (feature, bugfix, refactor, security...) and writes a summary of what your team delivered. Your changelog writes itself.

Is collaboration balanced?

See review distribution, participation, and how knowledge flows across the team. Spot when collaboration is concentrated so you can spread it naturally.

Features vs. debt: what's the split?

See the breakdown of your work: new features, bug fixes, refactors, performance, security. Know if you're investing in the right things or drowning in maintenance.

AI-powered coaching

Not just dashboards. Weekly answers.

Every week, OctoFirst analyzes 20+ metrics and delivers a health score with specific, data-backed recommendations. No more staring at charts wondering what to do.

✓ Weekly health score across Speed, Collaboration, and Quality
✓ AI insights that explain what changed and why it matters
✓ Actionable recommendations with measurable goals
✓ Weekly newsletter summarizing team wins for the whole org

Weekly AI insight

"Review velocity improved, but coverage dropped"

Your team merged 23% faster this week. However, 4 PRs were self-merged without review, up from 1 last week. Review coverage fell to 78%.

Recommendation

Set up a branch protection rule requiring at least one approval. Target: 95% review coverage within 2 weeks.

Up and running in 2 minutes

1. Connect GitHub or GitLab

One-click install. OctoFirst reads only metadata (PR titles, review activity, timestamps). Never your source code.

No configuration, no scripts, no dashboards to maintain.

2. Choose your repositories

Select which repos to track. Data starts flowing in minutes, with months of history imported automatically.

3. Invite your team

Each role gets their own view. CTOs see the executive summary, leads see team dynamics, developers see their personal impact.

Built by a CTO who needed it himself.

OctoFirst was born from a real frustration: managing a growing team and not seeing how they actually collaborated.

"We thought we needed more process. We just needed visibility. That's why I built OctoFirst."

Jean-Francois Lepine, Founder

Simple, fair pricing

Less than a coffee a week per developer. Cancel anytime.

Team

For engineering teams of any size

$9 / dev / month $7 / dev / month

✓ Unlimited repositories
✓ Speed, Collaboration & Quality dashboards
✓ Weekly AI health score & recommendations
✓ Bus factor & collaboration graph
✓ Automated changelog & newsletter
✓ Team objectives & gamification

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Contact

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One skipped meeting a month costs more than OctoFirst for your whole team.

Questions you're probably asking

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