NovaCTO isn't a dashboard you have to learn or a chatbot you have to prompt. It's an engine that watches your engineering operation and comes to you — with findings, context, and the exact next step.
Each brief covers four things, always in the same order, always in plain English:
Shipped: the new onboarding flow. 14 pull requests, all reviewed, test coverage held at 81%. This was your team's best week since April.
Stuck: the mobile push feature. Open for 11 days. The blocker looks like a third-party SDK issue, not your team. ask your team: "Do we need a workaround for the push SDK, or do we wait?"
Cost creep: +$610/mo over three months. Not one big thing — a slow accumulation of unarchived logs and oversized instances. One afternoon of cleanup fixes it.
The 0–100 score is not a vibe. It's a weighted composite of four measurable pillars, recalculated continuously and benchmarked against companies at your stage.
Test coverage on critical paths, review discipline, complexity trend, and how much of the codebase only one person understands.
Deployment frequency, time-to-merge, stuck-work ratio, and firefighting signals like revert chains and hotfix storms.
Known vulnerabilities and their age, exposed secrets, dependency freshness, and time-to-patch after a disclosure.
Cloud cost vs. usage, anomaly frequency, zombie resources, and unit economics — what one deploy, one user, one request costs you.
Because every customer runs on the same scoring model, the score comes with context no consultant can offer: "you're in the 34th percentile of seed-stage SaaS companies" is a sentence only the platform watching the most companies can say.
A short list of events pages you immediately — each one arrives already translated, with the message to forward to your team.
An API key, password, or token committed to the repo. The single most common cause of startup breaches.
A severe security flaw disclosed in a package you actually use, in code that actually runs — not the noise of every theoretical CVE.
A cloud bill deviating sharply from its baseline — runaway jobs, misconfigured autoscaling, forgotten experiments.
Large, untested, or unreviewed changes landing on revenue-critical paths — checkout, auth, billing, data.
NovaCTO never writes to your codebase, never deploys, and never blocks anyone's work. It observes through the same read-only access you'd grant an auditor — and you can revoke it in one click. Your team keeps working exactly as before; you just stop being the last to know.
Connect a repo this week and get your first brief next Monday. Founding-customer pricing, locked for life.