Day One as CTO: See Your Engineering Org Clearly From the Start

You inherit 20 engineers and half a million in payroll. Day one, you can't see what's happening. The previous CTO left a Jira board with 400 tickets, half of them stale. Slack is full of context you'll never recover. Your VP of Engineering gives you a status update that's three weeks old.

The board wants to know if the team is executing. Your CEO wants a headcount plan by Friday. You need to figure out who's actually shipping, what's actually progressing, and where the risk is hiding — before your first all-hands.

This is the moment most CTOs spend their first 90 days on. Walking around. Sitting in meetings. Building a mental model one conversation at a time. By the time they see clearly, the window to act has closed.

How InteliG Solves This

• → Connect GitHub and see everything. InteliG ingests your commit history, PRs, and deployment data. Within hours, you have a complete map of who's contributing, what repos are active, and where work is concentrated.
• → Identify your key contributors instantly. Not based on titles or tenure — based on code. See who's driving outcomes, who's doing review work, and who hasn't shipped in weeks.
• → Spot risk before it becomes a fire. Repos with no recent commits. PRs sitting open for days. Single-contributor bottlenecks. InteliG surfaces what's fragile so you can act before things break.
• → Ask Cognis, get answers. Instead of scheduling 20 one-on-ones, ask your AI CTO advisor what's happening. It synthesizes code, strategy, and knowledge into answers you can defend.

Questions You Can Ask Cognis on Day One