Tips
Freya OkaforJul 10, 2026
Seven automations every team should set up
From auto-assigning bug reports to nudging overdue reviews, these seven rules save a typical team about five hours a week.
Freya OkaforJul 10, 2026 One place for everything
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Reviews
Teams that work calmer with Vela
Product leads, engineering managers and COOs on what changed after their first month.
The automations alone save our support team hours every single week.
Lucas HughesCOO, Logistics companyOur release notes used to take a day. Now they write themselves.
Lea KowalskiEngineering Manager, AgencyWe replaced three tools and a weekly status meeting. Nobody wants to go back.
Priya KimTeam Lead, Design studioIt scaled from five people to eighty without us changing a thing.
Nora NovakOperations Director, Retail groupFinally a tool that engineers and managers both actually enjoy using.
Hana AshfordCTO, Health platformSetup took one afternoon. By Friday the whole team was working in it.
Jonah TanakaHead of Product, Fintech startupJournal
From the product blog
Release notes, workflow guides and stories from teams who use Vela every day.
Behind the scenes
Chloe WhitakerJul 1, 2026
What we learned shipping 200 releases
Two hundred releases taught us to ship smaller, write the release notes first and never deploy on a Friday afternoon.
Chloe WhitakerJul 1, 2026
ProductSamir VargaMay 21, 2026
The real cost of switching between tools
We measured a week of context switching across 40 teams. The average person jumped between apps more than a thousand times a day.
Samir VargaMay 21, 2026
TipsTariq FischerMay 17, 2026
Writing status updates people actually read
Lead with the decision you need, keep it under 150 words and link to the detail instead of pasting it in.
Tariq FischerMay 17, 2026Before and after
Before and after Vela
A typical week with scattered tools, compared with the same week run in Vela.
Without Vela
- Manual reports every week
- Status meetings that could be a message
- Surprise costs per seat
- Data spread over many tools
- Endless email threads
With Vela
- Open API
- Real-time collaboration
- Audit trail
- Dark mode
- 99.99% uptime
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