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Find the bottleneck in your delivery pipeline without paying Celonis money.

Process mining that turns your existing event logs into BPMN diagrams + bottleneck heatmaps in hours.

Celonis is great. It also starts at $200K/year. For most software-delivery teams, the diagnostic value of process mining (finding where lead time is actually being spent) doesn't require enterprise BI. Stride mines your Jira/Linear/Stride events into BPMN diagrams and bottleneck heatmaps in one day.

Outcome

~30% reduction in cycle time at teams that act on the first identified bottleneck within 30 days

Stride telemetry, Q1 2026 (n=50 teams)

The problem

Engineering leaders sense their teams are slow but can't pinpoint where the time goes. Dashboards show velocity, throughput, and cycle time — but not the wait between stages. The bottleneck is almost always a specific transition (code review, QA scheduling, design handoff) and dashboards don't surface which. Process mining is the right diagnostic; Celonis is the wrong purchase scale for most.

How Stride solves it

Stride's Optimize module reads event logs from your tracker (Stride internal, Jira import, or CSV upload), auto-generates a BPMN diagram of the actual process flow, and produces a bottleneck heatmap colouring each transition by wait time vs work time. The red transitions are your bottlenecks. Most teams find a 3-day average wait at one transition in their first 20 minutes with the tool.

  • Auto-generated BPMN diagrams from event logs (no manual modelling)
  • Variant analysis: what % of cases follow the dominant path vs deviations
  • Bottleneck heatmap: red = wait-heavy, blue = work-heavy
  • AI-suggested interventions per bottleneck (auto-assign reviewers, tighten AC, prune stale backlog)
  • Process simulation: what-if scenarios for proposed interventions
  • Time-window comparison: this quarter vs last to track improvement
Best for

Engineering organisations (50+ people) where leadership wants to find specific bottlenecks worth fixing — not just track aggregate metrics.

Not for

Highly regulated industries needing auditable process compliance evidence (Fortune-100 finance, healthcare). Celonis is the right tool there. Also not the right fit if your process has zero variance — process mining is for cases with deviations to analyse.

Frequently asked

What event log format works?
Standard: case_id, activity, timestamp, resource. CSV upload accepts this. Stride-internal events feed directly with no setup. Jira import via OAuth pulls state transitions and assignments. GitHub import (if connected) feeds PR open/review/merge events.
Can I mine non-engineering processes (HR onboarding, customer support)?
Yes, if you can produce the event log. Anything with case-level state transitions in a database is mineable. Stride's primary use case is software delivery, but the underlying BPMN engine is generic.
How does the AI-suggested intervention work?
For each bottleneck, the model looks at the variance pattern and suggests interventions used by other teams who solved similar bottlenecks. Code-review wait → auto-assign on file ownership. Long backlog dwell → quarterly pruning. The suggestions are starting points; the team decides.
How long to first useful diagram?
Hours. Connect or upload your event log, pick a case type (story / PR / sprint), let the auto-generator run. The first useful insight is typically visible within a one-hour session.

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