Swarmia

Swarmia is a software development analytics tool founded in 2019 in Helsinki, Finland. The platform aims to help modern engineering teams build better software faster by providing insights and tools to improve productivity without sacrificing culture or quality. Swarmia integrates with tools like GitHub, Jira, and Slack to offer engineering organizations a comprehensive view of their operations and areas for improvement. The platform serves the entire engineering organization, from developers to managers and directors to VPs.

Swarmia's core features include powerful insights at every level, visibility into engineering processes, and tools to remove bottlenecks and improve flow. The platform offers metrics based on frameworks like DORA and SPACE, allowing teams to analyze their performance and make data-driven decisions. Swarmia enables users to track investment distribution, view work logs, and adopt industry best practices through configurable working agreements. The platform also includes a bi-directional Slack interface to help teams stay on top of activities and speed up code reviews.

Security is a priority for Swarmia, with the company being SOC two Type 2 certified and conducting security audits every six months. The platform is designed to adapt to each team's unique tools, traditions, and challenges, ensuring that automation assigns tasks to the appropriate issues and individuals.

Key customers and partnerships

Swarmia serves customers primarily in the North American and European markets. Notable customers include Vercel, Outreach, and Pleo. The company reports that typical customers see 20-30% engineering productivity improvements within the first few months of using the platform. As of December 2022, Swarmia had experienced a 5x growth in both customer count and user base compared to the previous year, with users adopting over 2,800 working agreements through the platform.