LinearB vs Haystack: What growing teams use to scale delivery with less overhead
Haystack gives you the insights without the baggage. No forced integrations. No black box scoring. Just real engineering metrics, delivered simply. From cycle time to PR review health, Haystack helps teams align, focus, and ship faster—with setup in minutes, not weeks.
We don’t offer vague ‘productivity stats’. Enable teams to unblock delivery, automate workflows, and improve every week.
All signal, no noise
We only provide key delivery metrics, proven to drive success. Get the insights you need and nothing more.
Built for team adoption
Your teams drive delivery improvements. We’ve designed Haystack to enable better delivery, every day.
“LinearB is a tool that tries to be all things to all people. It’s expensive, big, slow, and honestly doesn’t fit most people’s real needs. It’s difficult to get moving, and hard to fix when it goes wrong.”
- Dan Short, CTO at Virtuous
Enable your teams, don’t just measure them
Dedicated tooling for leaders and teams.
Improving delivery isn’t about measuring teams, it’s about enabling them. Haystack offers dedicated dashboards, alerts, and insights for teams themselves. Helping them drive delivery improvements while giving leadership the visibility they need.
Improve delivery at every level.
Unblock delivery, every day
Real-time insights on blockers.
Weekly trends don’t improve delivery. Our team delivery portal gives teams daily insights on blockers impacting their sprint, issues, bugs, and code review.
Everything you need to keep delivery on track.
Actionable insights without the bloat
Focus on what matters, delivery.
We remove the vague, distracting, and harmful ‘productivity stats’ - focusing purely on improving delivery. Get weekly diagnostics of your delivery bottlenecks and concrete opportunities to improve.
Insights you’ll actually use
Showcase your real impact
Replace status updates with celebrations.
Drive continuous improvement by celebrating your achievements. Get automated release notes, milestone achievements, and status updates.
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