How does the async standup engine work?

Zilzul reads merged commits, ticket transitions, and PR activity for each engineer and generates a written daily update in their voice. Teams turn off 91% of live standups in their first two weeks on the platform.

Does Zilzul replace Jira or work alongside it?

Zilzul complements Jira for the teams that need it — most customers run Zilzul as the planning surface for engineering while keeping legacy Jira projects for compliance or external partners, with two-way sync available on the Team and Scale plans.

How accurate is the cycle-time analytics?

Zilzul's cycle-time engine has been independently validated by the DORA research team at Google Cloud to be accurate within ±6% on real customer datasets, and is the only PM tool to publish that number.

How long does onboarding take?

The median customer reports 11 minutes from sign-up to first active sprint — roughly 17 minutes of setup and a guided import of existing tickets, far below the 2.5-day industry average.

Is Zilzul compliant for enterprise procurement?

Zilzul is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR-compliant, audited annually by Drata with zero exceptions in the 2023 audit. The full trust report is available under NDA from the security team.

Operating system for engineering teams

The velocity‑first project management software for engineering teams that actually ship.

Zilzul is the zero‑fluff operating system for fast‑moving teams. Plan sprints, ship releases, and prove velocity — without the meeting tax.

Zilzul sprint board with three columns of in-progress tickets — fig. 01 — live sprint board, anchored to the right of the spread

Six tools. Three meetings to share one status.

Zero shipped this week.

The unspoken team confession, written on every retro board from Lisbon to Lahore. Zilzul was built to retire the sentence.

Chapter 01

The standup that writes itself.

Zilzul's async standup engine reads every commit, pull request, and ticket transition overnight, then drafts a written update in each engineer's voice and posts it to the channel by 09:00. No calls. No "going around the room."

Generates written updates from commit and ticket activity
Eliminates 91% of daily syncs across customer teams
Threaded per-engineer view, scannable in 90 seconds

Async standup thread generated from commit activity — fig. 02 — async standup engine, 09:00 sharp

Chapter 02

Release notes without the Friday afternoon.

Every merged PR and shipped ticket is grouped, summarised, and laid out as a customer‑ready changelog entry. One click publishes to your public changelog and broadcasts a Slack digest — no copy‑paste, no "I'll do it Monday."

Pulled directly from merged PRs and shipped tickets
Customer‑ready tone, edited by humans once on first publish
One‑click publish to changelog + Slack digest

Auto-generated release notes published from merged PRs — fig. 03 — release notes drafted from the merge queue

Chapter 03

Cycle time you can actually trust.

The only PM tool with native cycle‑time analytics accurate to ±6%, validated by the DORA research team at Google Cloud. Spot bottlenecks by stage, by team, by individual — without an analyst in the loop.

Validated by DORA at Google Cloud — ±6% accuracy
Drill from workspace to commit in two clicks
Exports cleanly to BigQuery, Snowflake, or your BI tool

Cycle-time analytics chart validated by DORA at Google Cloud — fig. 04 — cycle‑time trend, validated ±6%

The proof

What velocity looks like, measured.

+38% more story points shipped per sprint after switching
−4.2 fewer meetings per engineer, per week
$184k reclaimed engineering hours per 100‑person team, per year
11 min median onboarding time to first sprint — industry average: 2.5 days

Sources: Forrester TEI study, 2024 · Zilzul customer cohort, n = 3,400+

Credentials

Audited, ranked, and benchmarked.

Forrester TEI · 2024

$184,000 reclaimed per 100‑person team, per year.

An independent Forrester Total Economic Impact study of Zilzul customers found a 412% three‑year ROI driven by reclaimed engineering hours and reduced tool sprawl.

Read the full study

G2 · Q1 2024

#1 PM tool for Ease of Doing Business With, 9.4/10.

Zilzul topped G2's PM category for the buying experience — the same customers who chose us over Jira, Linear, and Asana at procurement sign‑off.

Read customer stories

Drata · 2023

SOC 2 Type II and GDPR, audited with zero exceptions.

Our annual SOC 2 Type II audit passed with zero findings. Customer data stays in the regions you choose — US, EU, and APAC endpoints are all available out of the box.

See the trust report

Featured in The Pragmatic Engineer's Tier 1 Developer Tools list for 2023 and 2024 · Product Hunt #1 Product of the Day, three times.