For Engineering Managers
Notice the change before the one-to-one does.
Sloane gives engineering managers a private, respectful way to notice when someone on the team is working outside their own normal pattern, whether that is an on-call rotation, a stretch of late nights or fragmented focus time. Coaching goes to the individual first.
What you keep running into
- A reliable engineer goes quiet and you find out at the sprint retro, if at all.
- On-call weeks are handed out on a rota, with no view of who is still recovering from the last one.
- Fortnightly one-to-ones are too infrequent to catch a two-week decline before it compounds.
What Sloane changes
- Earlier, private notice when someone's working pattern shifts from their own norm.
- On-call scheduling informed by recovery, not just a fixed rota.
- More useful one-to-ones, grounded in a pattern rather than a guess.
Frequently asked questions
- What is Sloane Labs for Engineering Managers?
- Sloane is a performance coach for Engineering Managers and their teams. It reads changes in capacity from wearables, calendars and work patterns, then offers practical guidance before strain becomes harder to address.
- How is this different from an engagement survey?
- Surveys provide a useful view at a point in time. Sloane adds a continuous view of changing capacity and gives each person private coaching between those surveys.
- Does it integrate with the tools my team already uses?
- Yes. Sloane integrates with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Calendar and Microsoft 365. Wearable integration is live for Oura today, with Whoop and Apple Watch in late beta and broader wearable support (Garmin, Fitbit, Polar) on the 2026 roadmap.
- How would we begin?
- We start with a conversation about the team, the tools already in use and the question you want the first group to help answer. From there, we agree a carefully scoped introduction.