Kite Systems
B2B SaaS, developer observability tools
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What you could not have seen
The single heaviest thing on each person's month, from their own account of it. Ranked by hours, not by how loudly anyone complained.
- Feature ticket development (e.g., filters panel)100 h a month, 94% of everything Gil Baram mapped
- Repeat ticket handling in Intercom55 h a month, 85% of everything Yuval Stern mapped
- Bug fix and PR workflow36 h a month, 77% of everything Maya Oren mapped
- Post-build regression testing and bug ticketing19 h a month, 83% of everything Lior Dagan mapped
- Follow-up Email Sequence & Lead Handoff to Eran18 h a month, 49% of everything Noa Friedman mapped
Automatable hours by employee
top 8 of 20 · hrs / monthFeasibility split
12-month cumulative hours
top 3 candidatesAssumes phased delivery: candidate 1 live in month 2, candidates 2 and 3 by month 4.
Work that crosses people
3 chains mapped · 7 handoffsLead to onboarding handoff chain
4 people · 3 handoffsRelease notes rewrite and distribution chain
3 people · 2 handoffsDemo booking and prep chain
3 people · 2 handoffsWhat to automate first
ranked by hours per monthWhere the time leaks
Mapped processes
49Feature ticket development (e.g., filters panel)
Gil Baram · Frontend Engineer · R&DRepeat ticket handling in Intercom
Yuval Stern · Support Engineer · Customer SuccessBug fix and PR workflow
Maya Oren · Frontend Engineer · R&DPost-build regression testing and bug ticketing
Lior Dagan · QA Engineer · R&DFollow-up Email Sequence & Lead Handoff to Eran
Noa Friedman · SDR · SalesResearch and draft new blog posts
Tomer Aloni · Content Writer · MarketingAutomatable hours by department
R&D holds 47% of the mapped timeScope scenarios
range = 70-90% realizationScopes cover mapped processes only. Ad-hoc interruptions (133.1 h/mo, 1,598 h per year) are counted in the headline figure but belong to no single scope.
Where it breaks
Every point in the mapped work where someone said something goes wrong or gets redone, in their words. Ranked by the size of the process it sits inside.
- Feature ticket development (e.g., filters panel)Gil Baram · 100 h a month
CI occasionally flakes and needs a re-run; no dedicated QA so bugs may slip through since developers test their own work
No dedicated QA step, manual production release process, occasional CI flakiness requiring re-runs
- Repeat ticket handling in IntercomYuval Stern · 55 h a month
Copying an outdated answer (e.g., an old setup step that changed) causes customer confusion and requires follow-up corrections
Manually searching for and rewriting the same answers repeatedly instead of having them ready; risk of reusing outdated information
- Bug fix and PR workflowMaya Oren · 36 h a month
Bugs that can't be reproduced or turn out to be backend issues stall the fix process
Fix time varies widely, from an hour for small bugs to a day or two for bigger ones, making workload unpredictable
- Post-build regression testing and bug ticketingLior Dagan · 19 h a month
Tickets bounce between owners when a bug spans two functional areas and ownership is unclear
Manual re-testing and manual ticket writing for every build; ownership ambiguity causes delays
- Follow-up Email Sequence & Lead Handoff to EranNoa Friedman · 18 h a month
Second follow-up email is often forgotten due to no reminder system
No reminder mechanism for the second follow-up email, leading to missed touches
- Research and draft new blog postsTomer Aloni · 16 h a month
None mentioned
No formal review process; research and drafting take a large chunk of time (4 hours per post)
Interviews
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