Since 2006
in software engineering and product leadership
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AI Engineering Manager
Know what your engineering team actually shipped.
Your team says it's done. Solidmatics reads the real work behind the claim (the code, the tasks, the messages) and tells you in plain English what actually got shipped.
From $699/mo. Five minutes to connect, nothing to install.
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The problem nobody talks about
You're paying for engineering you can't see.
Every month you wire $10K to $50K to a team you mostly take on faith. Standup says green. The invoice says full-time. Whether those two things match what actually got built is anyone's guess.
A contractor bills 40 hours and ships maybe 15 worth of work.
One person writes the code. Another shows up to the calls and takes the credit.
Tickets get marked done while the bug list quietly grows.
Activity drops off and the invoice stays exactly the same.
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 catchesWhat a real CTO catches in week one
Six patterns, hiding in data you already have
Connect your tools and these surface on their own. No survey, no self-reporting, nobody gaming a time tracker. Just what the commits, tickets, and messages already say.
Ghost hours
Billing full-time, shipping part-time. The activity timestamps tell the real story.
Work sharing
Two names on the task, one person actually writing the code. Commit history gives it away.
Face vs. coder
One person talks in every standup. Someone else ships all the code. You are paying for both.
Defect factories
More bugs filed against their work than features finished. Net negative, week after week.
Quiet quitting
Fewer commits, slower replies, reviews drying up. Someone is already halfway out the door.
Hidden superstars
Shipping steadily, reviewing everyone else, unblocking the team. Usually the most underpaid person on it.
Not every flag is bad news. The same read surfaces your hidden superstars, the people quietly carrying the team. And every flag comes with the evidence behind it, so it starts a conversation, not a verdict.
What you actually see
Not another dashboard. An opinion.
No charts to decode. You get the call a senior engineering lead would make sitting next to you, in one sentence, in plain English.
Signals
Andrius K.
5 PRs merged this week
Maria S.
Reviewed 3 teammates' code
Dev Team
Sprint closed on time
Alerts
Viktor P.
Zero commits in 5 business days
Raj M.
Commits only on Mondays and Fridays
Tom L.
Activity declining 3 weeks straight
The absence of a badge says something too. When everyone is shipping 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, and Slack in a couple of clicks. Read-only, nothing to install.
- 2
Map your team
We match people across platforms automatically. You confirm the few we cannot.
- 3
It watches
It watches the work around the clock and connects the dots across code, tickets, and messages.
- 4
You get the signal
Clear signals and flags, not a wall of metrics. What an engineering lead would actually call out.
Why not just use a tracker
Trackers watch inputs. We watch what shipped.
Screen recorders spy on people, and good developers route around them in a week. Metrics tools hand you charts and assume you already know what to look for. We read the output and tell you what it means.
| Solidmatics | Screen recorders | Engineering metrics | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Examples | AI Engineering Manager | Hubstaff, Time Doctor | LinearB, Jellyfish |
| What it watches | Actual output | Mouse clicks and screenshots | Dashboards and charts |
| Built for | Anyone running the team | Surveillance | Someone who reads dashboards |
| Your developers | Barely notice it | Hate it | Tolerate it |
| Tells you what actually matters | |||
| Price | From $699/mo + usage | 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
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 →
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.
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Questions engineering leaders ask
Founding member pilot
Ten teams get in first.
I have led engineering teams since 2006. I am building this for the leaders I keep meeting who are flying blind on a team they pay a fortune for. Get in early and you shape what it becomes.
- Connects to GitHub, Jira, and Slack (read-only, five minutes)
- We figure out who actually did what across your tools
- Plain-English signals and a weekly digest
- A direct line to me for product feedback