Driftless — AI Coaching for Scrum Masters

Jira shows what happened. Driftless tells you what to do about it. Driftless is AI coaching intelligence built specifically for Scrum Masters. It reads your Jira or Rally sprint board in one click and gives you actionable coaching insights grounded in the 2020 Scrum Guide and Agile Manifesto. No copy-paste. No API keys. No setup. Open your board, open Driftless, and go. Built by a working Senior Scrum Master who got tired of spending 4–6 hours a day on admin work instead of coaching people. — WHAT DRIFTLESS DOES Driftless organizes 30+ tools into two categories that match how coaching actually works: CLEAR THE PATH — The admin work that buries you Sprint Scan — Full coaching breakdown of your current board in one click Board Maturity Scan — 10-dimension scorecard (L1–L5) that tracks team growth over time Sprint Health Prediction — Where this sprint is headed before it gets there Sprint Stress Test — Carry-over risk scoring from historical patterns Blocker Scan — Every blocked item: who owns it, how long, cascade impact WIP Health Check — Little's Law analysis of your team's flow Standup Summary — Pre-built agenda with talking points from today's board state Scope Handler — Detects mid-sprint scope changes and quantifies impact Tech Debt ROI — Data-driven analysis of what tech debt costs your team per sprint Velocity Intelligence — Trend analysis with defect-adjusted velocity Cycle Time & Flow Health — Where work gets stuck and how long items actually take Backlog Health — Refinement readiness, estimation gaps, planning signals Stakeholder Summary — Copy-paste sprint update written for leadership COACH THE ROOM — The human moments only you can handle People Pattern Coaching — Who needs a conversation today and why Retro Coach — Data-driven facilitation with opening questions and action prompts Standup Coach — Real-time coaching cues for your daily standup Refinement Coach — Session prep with estimation patterns and readiness signals Psych Safety Check — Safety signals from board behavior: unreported blockers, solo patterns, silent coping Silent Killer Detect — Risks the team isn't talking about but the board shows 1:1 Question Generator — Conversation starters based on each person's sprint data SM Attunement — Your own coaching self-check for the day Coaching Up — Translate developer language into executive language for leadership conversations — THE HUMAN PLAY Every tool output ends with The Human Play — the one irreplaceable action only the Scrum Master can take, with the words to say and the Scrum Guide line behind it. Driftless handles the analysis. You handle the person. That's the whole point. — TRY IT BEFORE YOU POINT IT AT YOUR TEAM Demo Mode runs every tool against realistic sample sprint boards, so you can see exactly what Driftless does before it ever reads your real board. No account needed for the demo. — SPRINT JOURNAL & MEMORY Driftless remembers. The Sprint Journal auto-saves every tool output across sprints. The Memory tab stores persistent team context — absences, recurring patterns, capacity notes, team dynamics. This context feeds into every analysis, so Driftless gets smarter the more you use it. Run a Board Maturity Scan every sprint and watch your team's growth trajectory over time. — THE CHAT TAB Driftless isn't just tools. The Chat tab is your open coaching conversation. Ask it anything — sprint-specific analysis or general agile coaching questions. It knows when to use your board and when to just answer the question. Try asking: "Who on my team is overloaded right now?" "Is this sprint recoverable?" "My team hates retros. How do I make them useful?" "How do I push back on velocity as a performance metric?" "Write me a sprint review summary for my director." — GROUNDED IN THE FRAMEWORK Every recommendation traces back to a specific Scrum Guide accountability or Agile Manifesto principle. This isn't generic AI advice. When Driftless flags a blocker pattern, it connects it to the Scrum Master's accountability to remove impediments. When it surfaces a Sprint Goal misalignment, it references the Scrum Team's shared commitment. The framework is visible, not hidden. — WORKS WITH Jira (Cloud) Rally / Broadcom Board detection reads your sprint board directly in the browser tab — no admin access, no plugins on the Jira side. Optional API connection for Jira and Rally pulls velocity history automatically. — PRICING Sign in with your email — we send a 6-digit code, no password. Every new account starts with 20 free runs. One run is one tool click or one follow-up question. When you want more, buy a pack of runs ($9 for 50, $19 for 150, $49 for 500). Runs never expire. No subscription, no auto-renew, no AI account of your own required — every run goes through ours. — PRIVACY & SECURITY Chrome MV3. No passwords, no API keys, no access to your Jira or Rally credentials. Board data is read inside your browser and sent to the Driftless server, which passes it to Anthropic for analysis. Driftless stores your account email, your run history, and the Journal and Memory entries you choose to keep, so they follow you across devices. Board content is not retained after analysis. Full privacy policy at bedriftless.com/privacy. — WHO BUILT THIS Driftless was built by Eric Reighard, a Senior Scrum Master. Not a PM tool company. Not a consulting firm. A working SM who builds the tool he wishes he had, tests it on real teams, and ships what actually helps. Questions? Email eric@bedriftless.com — I read every one. bedriftless.com — WHAT'S NEW IN 5.0 Sign in with your email — no more license keys. 20 free runs on every new account. Demo Mode. Runs balance in the panel header. Faster, more reliable analysis.