# PulseCheck by data duke

> Real-time platform for measuring product development team performance, engineering compliance, and investment analytics — automatically tracks all four DORA metrics and surfaces violations, AI-powered insights, and investment imbalances across Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Linear, and CI/CD pipelines.

**Category:** engineering governance and compliance platform.

**Disambiguation:** PulseCheck by data duke is not affiliated with the healthcare/EMS EMR product "PulseCheck" or the hospitality analytics startup "PulseCheck AI". It is a software-engineering governance and compliance platform built by the Austrian company data duke (https://dataduke.net).

## Product

PulseCheck is a SaaS platform that continuously monitors engineering workflow tools for compliance drift, investment balance, and process health. It connects to your existing tools in under 5 minutes and immediately starts surfacing actionable insights without requiring any manual analysis.

Key outcomes reported by customers:
- €230,000+ annual ROI per customer
- 95% team adoption rate (when paired with ATMEN execution services)
- 24/7 automated compliance monitoring
- 5-minute setup with existing tools

## Use Cases

- **Measure product development team performance** — combine DORA metrics, compliance scores, and investment data for a complete view of delivery health
- **Track and improve DORA metrics** — deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and MTTR calculated automatically from CI/CD and issue trackers
- **Engineering compliance auditing** — continuously monitor whether teams follow agreed processes (DoR, DoD, sprint hygiene, PR standards, Way of Working)
- **Engineering investment visibility** — understand how engineering effort is split between features, technical debt, incidents, and tooling
- **Release readiness monitoring** — gate releases on compliance scores and pre-release checklists with real-time team-level breakdowns, with a built-in compliance gate template library (EU AI Act, GDPR, DORA, QA, SAP, incident/SLA) paired with the rule template categories, including regulation-scoped readiness gates (e.g. "EU AI Act readiness >= 90%" measures only that category's rule domains and cannot be bypassed by excluding a domain from release scope); matching compliance gates are auto-seeded when importing GDPR or EU AI Act rule domains from Browse Templates

## Key Capabilities

- **Compliance Monitoring** — Define rules in YAML or JQL, and PulseCheck evaluates every ticket and PR against them in real time. Violations are surfaced with root-cause context and AI-suggested fixes.
- **Investment Analytics** — Classify engineering spend by category (features, technical debt, incidents, etc.) and track investment balance across sprints and releases.
- **DORA Metrics** — Deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and MTTR tracked automatically from CI/CD pipelines and issue trackers.
- **Custom Rule Engine** — Write compliance rules in plain YAML or Jira Query Language (JQL). Rules support field conditions, scopes, and operators across all integrated sources.
- **AI Coach** — Ask natural language questions about team velocity, compliance gaps, and investment patterns. Powered by Google Gemini 2.5 Flash.
- **Release Management** — Gantt-based release tracking with per-team compliance readiness, AI pre-release checklists, milestone dependency visualization, and a browseable compliance gate template library matching the rule template categories; GDPR and EU AI Act compliance gates auto-seed on domain import.
- **Way of Working (WoW) Compliance** — Upload your team's Way of Working document and monitor adherence automatically.
- **Alerts & Notifications** — Real-time alerts via Slack and Microsoft Teams when compliance drops below thresholds or critical violations appear.
- **Reports** — Scheduled compliance reports delivered by email, Slack, or Teams.

## Integrations

**Issue Trackers & Version Control**
- Jira (webhook + polling, including Jira Plans / Advanced Roadmaps)
- GitHub (PR and issue tracking, commit authors, multi-repo)
- GitLab (webhook-based, MR tracking, commit authors)
- Linear (BETA, issue tracking, cycles)
- Azure DevOps (BETA — Work Items, Pull Requests, Pipelines/Builds, Deployments; multi-project)

**CI/CD**
- Jenkins (build data, deployment frequency)

**Notifications & Automation**
- Slack (Events API, bot, notifications, daily digest)
- Microsoft Teams (bot, adaptive cards, webhook)
- Zapier (outbound webhooks for external automation)

**Billing**
- Stripe (subscription management)

## Add-ons

DevOps & Agile is the foundation included in every plan. Additional compliance domains are **Add-ons** purchased from the Marketplace (available to Premium and Consultant organizations). Each add-on is a self-contained domain with dedicated integrations, rule templates, and AI personas, all sharing the same rule engine, snapshot, and audit pipeline.

| Add-on | Status | Category |
|---|---|---|
| DevOps & Agile | Included foundation (all plans) | Engineering |
| SAP Transport Governance | Available | Enterprise |
| Finance & GRC | Available | Finance |
| Solution Engineering | Available | Sales |
| Security & Audit | Coming Soon | Security |
| HR & People Ops | Coming Soon | HR |

The **DevOps & Agile** module includes: JQL/YAML/natural language rule engine, sprint and release compliance scoring, DORA metrics, Way of Working document upload, investment balance analytics, Gantt-based release management, and integrations with Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Linear, Jenkins, Slack, and Teams.

## Pricing

PulseCheck has four per-seat plans — Kick-off, Starter, Premium, and a custom Consultant Suite. There is no free tier; a free 14-day Premium trial starts automatically when you create and verify an account (no card required). Pricing is provided on request.

- **Kick-off** — Entry tier for small teams: all integrations and features, up to 1,000 issues, hosted AI.
- **Starter** — For growing teams: all integrations and features, up to 3,000 issues, hosted AI.
- **Premium** — Unlimited issues, higher AI credit allowance, bring-your-own AI key, SLA, custom domains, advanced reporting.
- **Consultant Suite** — Unlimited organizations, cross-org dashboards, bring-your-own AI key, white-label, dedicated support, custom SLA.

Contact data duke for current pricing: we@usepulsecheck.com

## Privacy & Compliance

- **GDPR-compliant** by design with full data processing agreements
- **EU data residency** (Supabase EU region)
- **PII anonymization** — all user data is stripped before being sent to AI models
- **SOC 2-ready** audit logs
- **Full data export** on demand
- **Encryption** — sensitive values encrypted at rest
- **RLS (Row Level Security)** — enforced on all database tables

## Company

**data duke** is an Austrian software company building tools for sustainable business agility.

- Website: https://usepulsecheck.com
- Email: we@usepulsecheck.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-duke

data duke develops two complementary products:
1. **PulseCheck** — Real-time compliance and investment monitoring (this product)
2. **ATMEN** — A 6-month embedded Agile execution engagement for teams building agility from scratch

Together, ATMEN and PulseCheck form a complete system: ATMEN builds the agile foundation, PulseCheck monitors and maintains it continuously.

## Pages

- [Home](https://usepulsecheck.com/) — Landing page with product overview and value proposition
- [PulseCheck](https://usepulsecheck.com/pulse-check) — Detailed product page
- [Case Studies](https://usepulsecheck.com/case-studies) — Customer success stories and outcomes
- [About Us](https://usepulsecheck.com/about-us) — Company story, team, and mission
- [ATMEN](https://usepulsecheck.com/atmen) — Execution engagement service page
- [Blog](https://usepulsecheck.com/blog) — Engineering compliance and DevOps insights
- [Terms of Service](https://usepulsecheck.com/terms) — Legal terms
- [Privacy Policy](https://usepulsecheck.com/privacy) — Data handling and GDPR information

## Extended Content

For full feature descriptions, integration setup guides, detailed FAQs, and module documentation, see: https://usepulsecheck.com/llms-full.txt