Aligned Tools @AlignedTools
Built by a 20-year game dev veteran tired of tools killing creative. AI-powered project management — docs to Jira in minutes. Founded by @jonathanhawkins aligned.tools Los Angeles, CA Joined April 2024-
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3/ Ask it why you priced a feature the way you did, or what you decided about the migration three sprints ago. It answers, and shows the source. The longer you use it, the more it knows.
2/ Aligned keeps one searchable brain. It reads across your tools, remembers the decisions, and answers in plain language with a link back to where it came from.
1/ Your company's memory is scattered across Slack, Gmail, Jira, and four people's heads. Every new hire spends a month finding out what was already decided.
Monday tax: the planning meeting where you decide what the week is. Three jobs crammed into one hour: triage, estimate, assign. You still leave unsure. The fix is to do triage before the meeting, not during it. More on that this week.
Took a photo of a whiteboard after a planning session and had structured tasks in Jira before I left the room. Aligned turns a photo, a PDF, or a doc into tickets with titles, estimates, and owners. The whiteboard shot that dies in your camera roll becomes the sprint.
If 80 percent of your backlog is P1, you do not have priorities. You have a list. The fix is a budget: at most 20 percent can be P1. Force the math, and the sprint plans itself.
Sprint planning used to eat 90 minutes. Now AI drafts the whole sprint and you review it in 5 minutes. Free playbook ⏬
A 90-minute sprint planning meeting with 8 engineers costs you 12 person-hours. You do this every two weeks. That's 312 hours a year of your most expensive labor, spent arguing about whether something is a P1 or a P2.
Most teams stop trusting their AI sprint estimates within a sprint or two. The reason is boring: nobody agreed what an effort 5 means, so the AI just guesses. What's your team's one-line rule for a 5?
Tried AI for sprint planning and quietly dropped it? It usually dies for one of four reasons: everything's a P1, no agreed effort scale, assignments that ignore skill, no signal when the plan breaks. Each is an afternoon to fix. Free playbook, no gate ⬇️
My friend posted a photo of his desk covered in sticky notes saying 'there has to be another way!' Uploaded the photo to Aligned. 30 seconds later, every sticky note was a structured task. Drop it into JIRA or the Aligned task system. A better way exists! #buildInPublic
Had a very successful week at GDC! Spoke to many producers and studio heads about their pain points with JIRA, remote teams, and ways to make teams more efficient with better tools. Everyone has the same issues. It takes up a ton of someone's time and nobody has the time to fix it. This is why I'm building @AlignedTools Tools with an AI layer that turns your meetings, docs, and e-mail and Slack message into actionable items. The biggest win was showing a major studio and getting a "Yes, we need this"! If you're a producer or studio head going through JIRA hell, you have so many emails and Slack messages that you're burning through your mental cognition before lunch. Let me know. I've lived this for years and I'm fixing it.
Playtest interview → 6 structured tickets in Jira. No copy/paste. No manual estimates. That's the last mile I've been working on to solve. I'm at GDC this week if you want to check it out! aligned.tools
Come see it live at GDC. Book time → aligned.tools/book
Heading to GDC this week. If your team is still manually turning meetings and docs into Jira tickets, come find me. I've fixed it! Grabbing coffees all week. DM me. aligned.tools
I built this after 20 years of living the problem. Here's the doc to Jira flow in 2 minutes.
20 years in game dev. Shipped God of War 1-3 at @SonySantaMonica. The tools were always the bottleneck. Not the talent. So I built @AlignedTools. Drop in a production doc & get fully detailed Jira tickets in minutes. Heading to GDC. DM me to see more.
@atsohom aligned.tools/book - Would love to give you a tour
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