The delivery excellence workbench
Quantify your delivery, understand what drives it, and improve it systematically.
Built by the people who built Stack Overflow and Toptal
You know the shape of the problem
Wherever your team is right now, one of these is probably true. Positron Flux is built for all of them.
You are already good, and you want to get better
Your delivery is solid, so the obvious wins are behind you and the next gains are smaller and harder to find. When you change something, you cannot always tell whether it helped or whether you were lucky. You want to keep improving on purpose, with evidence rather than intuition.
AI is writing your code. Do you know if it is working?
- Is our AI spend actually shortening delivery, or just our token bill?
- Is AI-generated code holding up in production, or quietly raising our failure rate?
- Are developers more energized by it, or more frustrated?
Right now you answer these by feel, the board wants a number.
You added engineers, and shipping got harder
The team has grown quickly, and coordination now costs more than the work itself. Delivery has slowed, and you cannot say where the time goes. The practices that worked at a smaller size are quietly breaking as you grow.
You know the team is underperforming, but not why
Releases slip, and each one is negotiated rather than planned. Code reviews sit for days while work piles up behind them. The same problems return in every retrospective, and nothing you try seems to hold. You can sense where it hurts. What you lack is the evidence to locate the cause and act on it.
You want better habits without turning metrics into surveillance
You want the team to adopt better practices, but mandates and scoreboards breed resentment, and tracking individuals destroys trust. You would rather people choose good habits for themselves than be measured into them.
What Positron Flux does
Most tools in this category show you the numbers and stop there. Positron Flux carries each question through to evidence, and then to action.
See it in practice
Run experiments, and read the result
Set a hypothesis, run it for a fixed window, and read the result with the statistics attached.
Tell the board whether the bet paid off
A real experiment, concluded, with the hypothesis, the before and after, and the statistics to back it. This is how you tell the board whether the AI bet paid off.
See where growth is costing you
Positron Flux breaks delivery down by team and by product, so a slowdown traces to a specific group rather than the whole organization, and you can see exactly where growth is costing you.
See what changed, and why
When your lead time increases, Positron Flux points to what changed alongside it, so you can get to the real cause together instead of debating theories.
Encourage good habits, never surveil
Positron Flux encourages good habits the way Stack Overflow did, through recognition and gentle competition, and it never measures individuals.
Who is building Positron Flux
Positron Flux is built by a team that has spent decades building the software, design, and AI that developers use every day.
Marco Cecconi
CEOMarco was part of the core engineering team at Stack Overflow, then Toptal's first engineering manager as it grew into one of the largest fully remote companies in the world. He later served as CTO of BaxEnergy, through to its acquisition by Yokogawa.
Samo Prelog
EngineeringSamo was a staff software engineer at Stack Overflow, working on the systems behind one of the most visited sites on the web, and later at BaxEnergy. He is a long-standing open-source contributor.
Jin Yang
Design and MarketingJin shaped Stack Overflow as its resident designer, and has since led design at Toptal and Capital One. He brings more than two decades of experience across user experience, UI, and brand marketing.
Dr. Alberto Polleri
AI and ResearchAlberto holds a PhD in physics from the University of Copenhagen and is a published scientist in physics and computational biology. He served as VP and chief data scientist for AI applications at Oracle, and holds over thirty patents in the field.
The Early Access Program
A real say in what we build
As a design partner, you have a real say in what we build next, and the product adapts to the way your team works.
Weekly time with the founders
You work directly with the founders in a weekly session, with real-time support to ensure your success in the program.
One outcome, reached together
Focus on one outcome that matters to your team, and we work together to reach it within the three months.
No obligation either way
At the end of the program, you decide whether to continue, with no obligation either way.
Terms
- The program runs for three months, until general availability.
- You pay a single fee at the start. If you continue into a twelve-month subscription, that fee becomes credit toward it.
- If you decide not to continue, you owe nothing further and there is no obligation on your side.
Next steps
- 1 Complete a short questionnaire, so we arrive prepared.
- 2 Sign a mutual NDA and the Early Access Program terms.
- 3 Choose an internal champion, and hop on an onboarding call.
- 4 Set up a weekly update with one or more of the founders, so we can help you and gather your input on making the system better for you.
Ready to become a design partner?
We are accepting a small number of teams for the first cohort
Apply for Early AccessWe look forward to helping you
Leave your email and we will send you the questionnaire to begin. One of the founders reads every application.
Marco Cecconi · [email protected]
positronflux.com