Know how your engineers are actually doing — without asking them.

Ever found out something about your team weeks too late?

It’s almost never sudden. It just never reached you.

Underneath that, right now.

1. Someone's doing twice as much as anyone else. Five weeks now.
2. Someone else hasn't had anything interesting to do since February.
3. One's been stuck nine days and stopped mentioning it.
4. Another holds the team together, and it's written down nowhere.
5. One's been waiting on you since Tuesday.
6. And you're about to hire, when you've already got someone idle.

Every one of those is worth knowing today. None of them will reach you.

Your board tracks tickets. It knows the work moved. It doesn’t know it took someone until midnight to move it, or that one person did most of it, or that another barely touched it.

And none of it’s the kind of thing people bring up on their own.

Every one of those was preventable.

None of them happened overnight. All six built up over weeks, in small changes, in the tools your team already uses.

One late night is one late night. A slow reply is a busy day. On its own, none of it means anything.

But the same person, working further from how they normally work, week after week — that shows up months before anyone hands in their notice.

Sonar catches it in week two, not month six.

It takes two weeks to learn how each person on your team normally works. Then it watches what changes.

Not people who work late — plenty always have, and they’re fine. People working differently than they did a month ago, and moving further from it every week.

17 signals. Overload. Stuck work. Underuse. Invisible work. Every person, every day. You hear about it the week it starts.

And tells you exactly what to say.

“How’s it going?” will always get you “fine.” You’re asking someone to raise a problem, unprompted, with their boss.

But if you already know they’ve been online past 11 on nineteen nights this month, you can just say:

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I’ve seen you online really late a lot lately. Everything okay?

They don’t have to bring it up. You already did.

People won’t start a hard conversation. Most people will finish one.

It never reads messages.

Sonar reads the shape of the work, never the content. It can tell someone’s pulled away from a conversation they used to be at the centre of. It’s got no idea what that conversation was about.

Your team sees what you see. Everyone gets their own page showing what Sonar holds about them, and can ask you to pause or delete it.

Nothing goes to HR. No scores. No rankings.