OctoFirst

Know where your team gets stuck

Your team ships every week. But you manage it on gut feeling. Sound familiar?

❌ PRs sit for days waiting for review

❌ The same two people review everything

❌ One developer leaves, one project stops

✅ OctoFirst shows you all of it, from your existing GitHub or GitLab data

Start free: 14 days, no credit card

Connect in 2 minutes. We read metadata, never your code.

Every growing team hits the same wall

More people, more code, more reviews, and less visibility.

The data that explains it already exists. It's in your pull requests.

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The problem

When teams grow, collaboration gets harder.

Reviews slow down, PRs get bigger, visibility fades.

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The shift

OctoFirst reads what's already there.

Your pull requests, reviews and merges tell the story. We turn them into answers: who's stuck, who's overloaded, what's slowing you down.

What you'll actually see

Real screens, real questions answered.

Who actually works with whom?

Spot silos before they become bus factor.

A map of who reviews whom, built from real PR activity. Isolated developers and knowledge silos become visible, before someone resigns and takes a whole module with them.

Is delivery speeding up or slowing down?

Rhythm, PR size and merge time, week by week.

Big PRs kill reviews. Watch your team's PR size and cadence evolve, and catch the slowdown while it's still cheap to fix.

Are reviews a team sport or a tax on two people?

Review participation, responsiveness and balance, per member. When 80% of reviews land on the same shoulders, you'll know (and so will the roadmap, eventually).

Your developers will actually open it

Not a surveillance tool. A mirror.

Each developer gets their own view: their impact, their streaks, their progress. Adoption comes from the team, not from a manager mandate.

What did we actually ship this week?

An AI-written summary of what your team delivered, in plain language. Paste it into your Monday standup or your board report: done.

Features or firefighting?

Your work, broken down by type: features, bug fixes, refactoring, security. If 60% of your team's time goes to bugs, that's a conversation worth having, with data.

No new process. No forms to fill. No dashboards to maintain. OctoFirst works from the data your team already produces.

The best dashboard is the one
you don't have to check

OctoFirst pushes what matters to where you already are.

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The Monday briefing

Every week, your team's pulse lands in your inbox: health score, what shipped, and the exact PRs to unblock first.

Written so you can forward it to your boss as-is.

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Slack alerts that respect you

Monday morning, before standup: reviews slowing down, a PR nobody dares to touch, delivery dropping by half.

Nothing notable? We say nothing. Silence means all is well.

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The report your boss will love

A clean monthly engineering report: one shareable link, no account needed on their side. Print it, forward it, done.

Part of your reporting job, done for you.

How OctoFirst helps your team grow

Illustration: connect with GitHub or GitLab

Connect your workspace

Link your GitHub or GitLab activity to see how your team collaborates.

OctoFirst reads only metadata, never your source code.

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Connect GitHub in 2 minutes. First insights within the hour.

No setup, no configuration, no dashboards to maintain.

Let AI analyze your workflow

OctoFirst observes your pull requests and collaboration patterns - no setup needed.

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We read metadata only - never your source code.

No credentials stored. You stay in control.

Reveal how your team works

Get a visual, data-driven map of your team's rhythm, workload, and habits.

Illustration: team progress and improvement

Turn insight into progress

Identify blockers, celebrate improvements, and build better habits together.

What you'll know by Friday

Connect on Monday. By the end of the week, you'll have answers to questions you've been guessing at for months:

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Where your PRs really get stuck, and for how long

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Who carries the review load, and who never reviews

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Which parts of your codebase depend on a single person

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How much of your team's effort goes to features vs. firefighting

Why I built this

I'm Jean-François, CTO at GlobalExam. I lead an engineering team, and for years I couldn't answer a simple question: where does our code get stuck?

I thought we needed more process. We didn't. We needed to see what was already happening: reviews piling up on two people, PRs growing until nobody dared review them, knowledge locked in one head.

So I built OctoFirst: the tool I use to run my own team, every week. No fake numbers, no vanity dashboards. Just the answers a tech lead actually needs.

Jean-François Lépine, founder of OctoFirst, CTO at GlobalExam

One plan. Every feature.

15 € per active developer per month (3-seat minimum). You only pay for people who ship.

Try everything free for 14 days. No credit card.

Team

For growing engineering teams

15 € / dev / month 12 € / dev / month

✓ 14-day free trial, no credit card
✓ Pay only for active contributors
✓ Unlimited repositories
✓ Full collaboration insights
✓ Monday briefing in your inbox
✓ Slack alerts on what changed
✓ Shareable monthly report
✓ AI recommendations for improvement
✓ Cancel anytime, in two clicks

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Contact

Want to chat, see a demo, or get a quote?

One skipped meeting a month costs more than OctoFirst.

No tiers, no feature gates, no "contact us for that". One price, everything included, and you only pay for developers who actually ship.

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