Since 2006
in software engineering and product leadership
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AI Manager
Know what every team you run actually did this week.
You are accountable for more teams than you can sit in on. Solidmatics reads the work they already produce (the code, the tickets, the messages, the meetings) and tells you in plain English what actually moved. The same read you would do yourself, if you had the hours.
Start for $5. Your first read is on us. Five minutes to connect, read-only, no agent to install.
+$5 included
The problem nobody talks about
You answer for work you never actually see.
Two teams, maybe three. Engineering, whoever is doing sales, and the people keeping operations upright. Fifteen of them at market rate is over a hundred thousand a month, and the only picture you get of it is the one people bring to the meeting. Checking properly costs you days you do not have.
Every status you get is the version someone chose to tell you.
A contractor bills full time and delivers part time.
Two teams spend a quarter building past each other and nobody flags it.
Work gets marked done while the thing it was for sits still.
You find out three months and twenty grand too late.
Recognize two or more? That is not a people problem yet. It is a visibility problem, and that one is fixable.
See what it catchesSix signals status meetings never surface
Six patterns, hiding in data you already have
Connect your tools and these surface on their own, across every team you plug in. No survey, no self-reporting, nobody gaming a time tracker. Just what the tickets, messages, meetings, and code already say.
Hidden superstars
Shipping steadily, reviewing everyone else, unblocking the team. Usually the most underpaid person on it.
Ghost hours
Billing full time, delivering part time. The trail of finished work tells the real story.
Face vs. doer
One person talks in every meeting. Someone else does the work. You are paying for both.
Teams drifting apart
Engineering building one thing, sales promising another. Two quarters of drift, visible from week one.
Silent stalls
Marked done in the tracker while the work behind it has not moved in weeks.
Quiet quitting
Fewer contributions, slower replies, meetings skipped. Someone is already halfway out the door.
Not every flag is bad news. The same read surfaces your hidden superstars, the people quietly carrying a team. Every flag comes with the evidence behind it, so it starts a conversation, not an accusation. And everyone knows the same read exists, which is the whole point: one shared picture instead of six competing versions of the week.
What you actually see
Not another dashboard. An opinion.
Andrius K. merged 5 PRs this week
Viktor P. zero commits in 5 business days
No charts to decode. You get the call an experienced lead would make sitting next to you, in plain English, for every team you connect. And the absence of a flag says something too: when everyone is moving and one name stays quiet for weeks, that is your cue to check in.
How it works
Five minutes to connect. Answers the same day.
No agents on anyone's machine, no rollout project, no asking the team to log hours. You plug in the tools they already use and the reading starts.
- 1
Connect
Securely connect GitHub, Jira, Slack, ClickUp, Sentry, and meeting transcripts through MeetGeek. Read-only, no agent to install.
- 2
Map your teams
We match people across platforms automatically and group them the way you actually run them. You confirm the few we cannot.
- 3
It watches
It watches the work around the clock and connects the dots across code, tickets, messages, and meetings.
- 4
You get the signal
Clear signals and flags, not a wall of metrics. What an experienced lead would actually call out.
From connect to verdict
What those five minutes buy you
Why not just ask around
Asking gets you the story. We read the record.
Today your options are a meeting where you hear the version someone prepared, or a tool. Screen recorders spy on people, and good ones route around them in a week. Metrics dashboards cover engineering, hand you charts, and assume you already know what to look for. We read what the work itself says and tell you what it means.
| Solidmatics | Screen recorders | Metrics dashboards | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Examples | Chief, an AI Manager | Hubstaff, Time Doctor | LinearB, Jellyfish |
| What it watches | Work that actually landed | Mouse clicks and screenshots | Charts and dashboards |
| Teams it covers | Any team whose work leaves a trail | Whoever you install it on | Engineering only |
| Built for | Anyone running more than one team | Surveillance | Someone who reads dashboards |
| Your people | Barely notice it | Hate it | Tolerate it |
| Tells you what actually matters | |||
| Price | Start for $5, pay as you go | Per seat, monthly | $20K+ a year |
Performance Signals
Track Record
Twenty years of running engineering and product. Not a CV. The work behind the pitch.
200+ engineers
coached and mentored
12+ teams
built from first hire
40-person orgs
restructured and turned around
99.98% uptime
on systems we've architected
LLM products
in production, including pre-training pipelines and AI agents
Leadership
Who's Behind This
Vygandas Pliasas has been writing code and leading engineering teams since 2006. He sits as fractional CTO and CPO across companies in the US and Europe today.
One of those companies is an AI-powered platform where he runs engineering and product hands-on. So the technical calls he makes for you are calls he is also making on his own roadmap this week. Teams built from the first hire, broken ones turned around, LLM products shipped end to end including the pre-training side.
Backed by senior operators who specialize in cloud infrastructure, security, DevOps, and software architecture. Not subcontractors. People he's worked with and trusts to deliver.
What people say
The founders, engineering leaders, and operators who have worked with the team building Solidmatics.
Vygandas was a great technical partner and support helping as I built out the MVP for my SAAS business. He was patient and offered tons of value as we architectured the initial tech stack!Read more →
Vygandas is great to work with and brings a depth and breadth of experience. He's thoughtful and detail-oriented and is able to switch quickly from big-picture planning to granular project management.Read more →
Great professional and team leader. Very calm and friendly professional. Feels like everything will be ok, all the time. This helps maintain the team morale in the right place. When calling him to a Design Brainstorming or Process, he is the one that provides the boldest ideas. I really hope we get to work together again in the future.Read more →
Vygandas is a great leader & manager with deep knowledge & experience in many different areas -- marketing, programming, management, sales, etc. I have worked closely with him for 6 months on a day-to-day basis and have only the best things to say. He made sure that our team runs proficiently and performs consistent results. Vygandas is an ambitious, hard-working and results-oriented leader. The thing I loved the most about working with him is that he has an easy-going attitude and doesn't resist going the extra mile when sharing his professional knowledge with co-workers.Read more →
I was lucky to be the Team Lead that hired Vygandas into Toptal. From the interviews he was impressive in the nicest way: calm, friendly, very intelligent, and communicates very well. Once at the company, he continuously did great work. Yes, he is an excellent engineer. At the same time he can work with people superbly, is a great listener, can organize thoughts and priorities, and is patient. To top it off, Vygandas is always positive and uplifting. After I departed Toptal, he took over my position as Team Lead and it worked out very well for everyone involved. Vygandas can work at any level of an organization and excel.Read more →
Vygandas was a great technical partner and support helping as I built out the MVP for my SAAS business. He was patient and offered tons of value as we architectured the initial tech stack!Read more →
Vygandas is great to work with and brings a depth and breadth of experience. He's thoughtful and detail-oriented and is able to switch quickly from big-picture planning to granular project management.Read more →
Great professional and team leader. Very calm and friendly professional. Feels like everything will be ok, all the time. This helps maintain the team morale in the right place. When calling him to a Design Brainstorming or Process, he is the one that provides the boldest ideas. I really hope we get to work together again in the future.Read more →
Vygandas is a great leader & manager with deep knowledge & experience in many different areas -- marketing, programming, management, sales, etc. I have worked closely with him for 6 months on a day-to-day basis and have only the best things to say. He made sure that our team runs proficiently and performs consistent results. Vygandas is an ambitious, hard-working and results-oriented leader. The thing I loved the most about working with him is that he has an easy-going attitude and doesn't resist going the extra mile when sharing his professional knowledge with co-workers.Read more →
I was lucky to be the Team Lead that hired Vygandas into Toptal. From the interviews he was impressive in the nicest way: calm, friendly, very intelligent, and communicates very well. Once at the company, he continuously did great work. Yes, he is an excellent engineer. At the same time he can work with people superbly, is a great listener, can organize thoughts and priorities, and is patient. To top it off, Vygandas is always positive and uplifting. After I departed Toptal, he took over my position as Team Lead and it worked out very well for everyone involved. Vygandas can work at any level of an organization and excel.Read more →
Vygandas and I worked together on growth initiatives, primarily on roadmapping and prioritization. Vygandas does a great job in managing his engineering team and collaborating across the engineering organization to make sure that his team works on high impact projects. While I only worked with Vygandas for a few months, I enjoyed his leadership style and hands-on approach to scoping.Read more →
I worked closely with Vygandas on a day-to-day basis as the product manager of the team he managed. We frequently discussed ways to optimize the team and to prioritize features. It was truly a pleasure working alongside Vygandas as he will go above and beyond to support his team. He excels when it comes to capacity planning and providing high-level estimates on LOE for the initiatives on the roadmap. His management style is pretty straightforward - ensure that everyone is equipped to succeed. This includes removing blockers, researching the unknowns, and getting the right people in the room. This mentality is the reason for the success of the team, why his direct reports thrived and how the Product team was able to manage stakeholders and expectations. I would highly recommend Vygandas for a management position at any company that requires building strong teams and effective, strategic planning.Read more →
Vygandas was employee #1 of our Lithuania branch, and his hard work was crucial in getting the new office and team up and running.Read more →
Vygandas is a very creative person who knows how to materialize complex ideas into reality easily. It's because he has strong IT background and management skills which let him to see end picture in the beginning of new project. Vygandas comes up with creative solutions to difficult problems and know how to manage all process to seek best result on time.Read more →
Vygandas and I worked together on growth initiatives, primarily on roadmapping and prioritization. Vygandas does a great job in managing his engineering team and collaborating across the engineering organization to make sure that his team works on high impact projects. While I only worked with Vygandas for a few months, I enjoyed his leadership style and hands-on approach to scoping.Read more →
I worked closely with Vygandas on a day-to-day basis as the product manager of the team he managed. We frequently discussed ways to optimize the team and to prioritize features. It was truly a pleasure working alongside Vygandas as he will go above and beyond to support his team. He excels when it comes to capacity planning and providing high-level estimates on LOE for the initiatives on the roadmap. His management style is pretty straightforward - ensure that everyone is equipped to succeed. This includes removing blockers, researching the unknowns, and getting the right people in the room. This mentality is the reason for the success of the team, why his direct reports thrived and how the Product team was able to manage stakeholders and expectations. I would highly recommend Vygandas for a management position at any company that requires building strong teams and effective, strategic planning.Read more →
Vygandas was employee #1 of our Lithuania branch, and his hard work was crucial in getting the new office and team up and running.Read more →
Vygandas is a very creative person who knows how to materialize complex ideas into reality easily. It's because he has strong IT background and management skills which let him to see end picture in the beginning of new project. Vygandas comes up with creative solutions to difficult problems and know how to manage all process to seek best result on time.Read more →
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Founding member pilot
Ten teams get in first.
I have led engineering teams since 2006, and run product and operations alongside them. I am building this for the people I keep meeting who answer for more teams than they can sit in on. Get in early and you shape what it becomes.
- Connects to GitHub, Jira, Slack, ClickUp, Sentry, and MeetGeek (read-only, five minutes)
- We figure out who actually did what, across every team you connect
- Plain-English signals and a weekly digest
- A direct line to me for product feedback