How to start a Sprint Estimate Reality Check business: plan and growth
A team finished PI planning with low confidence: story points were arbitrary because leadership 'vibe-planned' priorities without historical velocity.
An owner can start “Sprint Estimate Reality Check” from a complaint people already posted. The offer, in one line: Flag new story-point estimates that statistically drift from your team's historical velocity before the sprint starts. It is for engineering managers and scrum masters. Charge a B2B subscription, and test a price between $50 and $199 a month. Begin in more than one country. Buyers already talk about this in r/devops. One thread gathered 61 votes and 47 replies across Sep 14, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026. Use that room to meet the first twenty buyers. Do not export it, and do not republish the posts. The idea, the evidence, and the market estimate on this page are free to read. Two paid prompts finish the job: one drafts the offer, the price, and a ninety-day calendar; the other drafts a month of conversations and proof. One credit unlocks both. A software specification is not on this site. When the company is the product itself, a single link further down opens the founder library.
RANT: Has anyone experienced vibe planning?r/devops · Sep 14, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026 · 61 votes · 47 replies · Open the thread
Who would pay
Engineering managers and scrum masters. Start in more than one country, and charge a B2B subscription, testing a price between $50 and $199 a month.
The thread above is the public complaint this business can learn from. Verbatim quotes are not invented. Further sources, when a later report adds them, stay with the evidence.
What buyers use today
- Jira reports
- LinearB
The offer, in our words
A tool that checks new sprint estimates against historical velocity and similar past tickets and flags estimates disconnected from real data.
Score 2.75, Simmering. Pain, willingness to pay, demand, and the gap in current options drive it. We are not scoring how fast you can code.
Market size
An estimate, built from the bottom up: real customer counts × a realistic price. It shows the size of the prize, not a forecast.
TAM Total addressable
$252M a year
210,000 teams · 12.5% of US software developers
SAM Serviceable
$75.6M a year
63,000 teams · teams on Jira or Linear
SOM Obtainable in 3 years
$756K a year
630 teams · 1% of the reachable segment in three years
What that means
630 teams at $100/mo = $756K ARR
Low confidence · estimated Oct 2026
How we estimated this
- Base: 1,690,000 US software developers.
- Has the problem: 12.5% (about one team per 8 developers).
- Revenue per team: $1,200 per year ($100/mo per team).
- Reachable: 30% (teams on Jira or Linear).
- Three-year capture: 1% of the reachable segment.
TAM is customers with the problem × revenue per customer. SAM is the part a new business can reach. SOM is a cautious three-year share of SAM. The bars use a log scale. A share marked “assume” is our judgment, not a measurement.
Source: BLS Occupational Outlook, 2024
The business-plan prompt
The offer, the price, and a ninety-day calendar, written for an agent. 1 credit unlocks both prompts for this idea: this plan and the growth playbook below.
# Business plan prompt: Sprint Estimate Reality Check You are writing a practical plan for one owner who will sell this as a business. Do not write a software specification, a venture memo, or a feature list. Use short sentences. Where a number is unknown, give a range and say what to measure. ## The business Working name: Sprint Estimate Reality Check What the customer gets: Flag new story-point estimates that statistically drift from your team's historical velocity before the sprint starts. Who pays: Engineering managers and scrum masters
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The growth playbook
Thirty weekdays of conversations and proof. Not an ad plan. Included with the plan above, on the same credit.
# Growth prompt: Sprint Estimate Reality Check You are planning thirty days of distribution for a business that already has an offer. The offer: Flag new story-point estimates that statistically drift from your team's historical velocity before the sprint starts. The buyer: engineering managers and scrum masters. Price band: between $50 and $199 a month. Do not propose ads, a viral loop, or a rebrand. Propose conversations, proof, and a repeatable weekly rhythm. ## Starting point A public thread in r/devops drew 61 votes and 47 replies. The pain, in the owner's words: A team finished PI planning with low confidence: story points were arbitrary because leadership 'vibe-planned' priorities without historical velocity.
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Questions
How much money do I need to start?
Enough to talk to buyers and deliver the offer once. A service version can start with a written process and a way to take payment. A software version is a larger bet and is not required to test the price. The band to test is $50–199 a month.
How should I price it?
Test a price between $50 and $199 a month, charged as a B2B subscription. Raise it after three paid pilots, not before the first conversation.
Where do the first customers come from?
r/devops is the clue. A related thread gathered 61 votes and 47 replies. Show up there, follow the room's rules, and ask for conversations. Do not scrape it.
Do I need to write code?
No. The prompts on this page draft a plan and a month of growth. Code is a later choice. The founder site linked once below is where the build document lives, if you want it.
The coded version, and the option to hire it out, are on the founder site. Have this built
A two-week build starts at $10,000 on that site, after a $1,000 scoping fee.
Plans and growth playbooks
One credit opens both prompts for this business.
The idea, the evidence, and the market estimate stay free. The business plan and the thirty-day growth playbook for Sprint Estimate Reality Check cost one credit, together, and stay unlocked.
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