Resource planning for engineering teams
Stop guessing who is overloaded and who has room. Korvai puts every person and every project on one timeline, and keeps the plan honest by tracking where the time actually went.
The planning layer above your task tools.
See who is overloaded and who has room at a glance. The capacity strip turns red before someone burns out, not after.
Plan where time should go, then track where it actually went. When the two drift apart, you will see it week by week rather than at the end of the quarter.
What happens if we push the migration a quarter and staff up the launch instead? Sketch it as a named scenario, put it next to the current plan, and see exactly which weeks change.
You know the spreadsheet: formulas that break when somebody drags a cell, numbers that are three weeks old, and nobody sure which tab is current. It got you this far. Korvai replaces it.
| The spreadsheet | Korvai |
|---|---|
| Fragile formulas that break when somebody drags a cell | Capacity arithmetic you never have to babysit |
| Numbers three weeks old that nobody quite trusts | The plan and the logged hours in one live view |
| No way to compare two options side by side | Named scenarios, with a week-by-week diff against the plan |
| Hours of maintenance every month | Drag to allocate; the version history keeps itself |
A scenario is a full copy of the plan you can move things around in without touching what the team is working from. Compare it week by week, promote it when it is agreed, or throw it away. A scenario can also carry a headcount slot — a lane of capacity nobody occupies yet — which is how it answers the question it was opened for.
Weekly timesheets sit beside the plan rather than in a second tool. An engineer fills the week from their own allocations in one click and corrects what was actually true. Six reports read both halves — capacity, staffing, utilization, forecast versus actual, category mix and forecast accuracy — so the question “were we right last quarter” has an answer that nobody had to assemble.
Entering your own hours is not a paid feature and never sits behind a permission. Neither does reading the plan: an engineer asking who they should go to about a programme is asking about their colleagues, and that question cannot be answered by a page showing one row.
Korvai · to string together
In Kanchipuram silk weaving, the body and border of a saree are woven on separate looms — different patterns, working in parallel. Two weavers then interlock them by hand, thread by thread, into one fabric. Korvai is the Tamil word for that join. We built the planning tool that does the same for a team.
Korvai is in private release. Tell us about your programme and we will let you know when your account is ready.