Honest answers about the hardest question in your business.
You'd think this is the question only a CFO can answer — Astra reads payroll, GitHub, Linear, and revenue data and gives you the unvarnished version.
Astra answers "is my team's output worth the cost" by joining payroll cost (from Brex/Gusto) with measurable output per role: PRs merged + reviewed (GitHub), features shipped (Linear), revenue moved (Stripe attributed to launches), customer support tickets resolved (Intercom), content published (CMS), deals closed (Apollo/HubSpot). She computes a cost-per-output ratio per person, normalizes by role and tenure (month-1 hires don't ship like month-12), and benchmarks against industry medians. Output is a confidential one-pager: who's outperforming their cost, who's matching, who's underperforming, and who's a flight risk based on Slack activity drop. She doesn't give performance reviews — she surfaces signal you can use to coach, reassign, or have a hard conversation. You stop guessing if your eng team is over-hired or your sales rep is worth the OTE.
Brex/Gusto for cost-per-person-per-month including loaded cost (benefits, equity vesting). Tag by role (eng, sales, design, ops).
Eng: GitHub PRs merged, code review hours, incident response. Sales: Apollo/HubSpot deals + revenue closed. Design: Figma files shipped + frontend impact. CX: tickets resolved + CSAT.
First 90 days = ramp, weight 0.4x. Senior IC vs junior = different output expectation. Compare against the role's industry median, not against each other.
Ratio per person. Plus a flight-risk signal: Slack message frequency drop, calendar density change, last 1:1 sentiment if logged.
Lark DM (just to you): outperformers, matchers, underperformers, and flight risks. Each with reasoning + one suggested action.
A confidential weekly Lark DM (only you see it) ranking your team by cost-per-output, flagging outperformers to retain and underperformers to address, plus flight-risk signals.
Monthly deep-dive, plus weekly flight-risk pings if a signal triggers.
We'll spin up your workspace, hand the prompt to Astra, and you see the answer in 60 seconds. Free.
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Astra knows. She measures PRs *and* code review hours *and* incident response *and* mentorship signals (junior PRs they reviewed, docs they wrote). The score is multi-dimensional. The point isn't to reduce a person to a number — it's to give you signal you'd otherwise have to fly blind on. You still make the call.
She works with what you have. With just payroll + Slack + email volume she can still flag flight risks and obvious outliers, but the cost-per-output analysis needs at least one objective output source per role. Most teams add Linear or Apollo within 30 days of running this for the first time.
Yes. Ask 'why did Astra flag X as underperforming' and she shows the underlying numbers, comparisons, and time series. You can override any call ('J is on a special project — exclude from output ranking') and she'll respect it going forward.
No. Never. This brief is a Lark DM only you can see. Astra never tells team members their score, never logs it in a shared place, never references it in public chat. It's a tool for you to make calls, not for performance management theater.