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.
~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
Engineering organisations (50+ people) where leadership wants to find specific bottlenecks worth fixing — not just track aggregate metrics.
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?
Can I mine non-engineering processes (HR onboarding, customer support)?
How does the AI-suggested intervention work?
How long to first useful diagram?
See bpmn process mining in Stride
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