Gary

Comparison

Gary vs LinearB

dashboards vs. a teammate

LinearB is an engineering metrics platform that surfaces DORA metrics, cycle time, and workflow automation through a dashboard. Gary is an AI staff engineer that lives in Slack and proactively flags issues across GitHub, Linear, and Sentry. They solve related problems in fundamentally different ways.

what's the fundamental difference?

LinearB gives you a dashboard with charts and metrics. you go to it, interpret the data, and decide what to do. Gary comes to you in Slack with specific, actionable observations — and only when something actually matters. LinearB measures. Gary acts.

Feature comparison

Feature
Gary
LinearB
Delivery method
Slack messages, proactive and on-demand
Web dashboard with charts and reports
Merge conflict detection
Proactive Slack alert when two PRs touch the same files
Not available
PR summaries
Full context: ticket, risk, blast radius, unresolved feedback
Not available (focuses on PR metrics, not content)
Sprint health
Weekly Slack digest with what shipped, what's stuck, what's at risk
Dashboard with velocity, cycle time, and throughput charts
Sentry integration
Correlates errors to deploys and identifies likely cause
Not available
Team pattern learning
Learns who reviews what, deploy cadence, preferences over time
Tracks contributor metrics and benchmarks
Takes actions
Assigns reviewers, pings team members, links context
Workflow automations (auto-assign, gitStream rules)
Pricing
$150-750/month flat
Per-contributor pricing, starts at $49/contributor/month

Where Gary is stronger

  • —proactive alerts delivered to Slack — no dashboard to check
  • —cross-tool intelligence (GitHub + Linear + Sentry in one view)
  • —flat pricing that doesn't scale with headcount
  • —takes actions, not just surfaces metrics
  • —merge conflict detection and Sentry correlation

Where LinearB is stronger

  • —deep DORA metrics and engineering benchmarks
  • —workflow automation with gitStream
  • —investment review and planning tools
  • —established platform with enterprise customers
  • —more granular contributor-level analytics

The verdict

if you need a metrics dashboard for executive reporting and DORA compliance, LinearB is purpose-built for that. if you want a teammate that proactively catches problems and delivers context to your team in Slack, that's what Gary does. most teams that try dashboards find nobody checks them — Gary solves that by coming to you.

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