Hello, I'm baku.

Today, I'd like to introduce "sytlas," which we're developing to solve the structural challenges that modern project management faces.

Days Overwhelmed by Management Tasks

Last summer, I was assigned as the PM for a small project. To be honest, the burden of management tasks was much heavier than I expected, and I was struggling.

Every Friday morning, before our weekly meeting, I had a routine:

1. Scroll through a week's worth of Slack history
2. Collect each member's "done" and "finished" messages
3. Update the Excel task sheet
4. Adjust the Gantt chart (this was the most tedious)
5. Create PowerPoint progress reports

This took 2-3 hours every time. Precious Friday morning hours disappeared into copy-pasting and Excel work. Meanwhile, new progress reports kept flowing into Slack, and I often had to give up updating them due to time constraints, thinking "I should add this too."

One day, I reached my breaking point. "Why do I have to write the same information in different places multiple times?"

A Common Challenge Across Many Workplaces

When I talked to other engineers and PMs around me, I found that everyone had similar frustrations.

"I reported progress in Slack, but they want it in another format too" "Nobody looks at the Gantt chart, but I still have to update it" "I have to transcribe to Excel what's already visible in GitHub" "There are too many management tools, I don't know where anything is"

One colleague's story was particularly striking. His team wrote progress in Slack during morning standup, updated Jira at noon, filled in spreadsheets in the evening, and created PowerPoints weekly. "I'm writing the same thing four times," he said with a wry smile.

And Then, Development of sytlas Began

I had to solve this myself. That determination led to the development of sytlas.

The concept is incredibly simple:

"When you say 'finished' in Slack, the Gantt chart should update automatically."

Simple, but this was the core insight.

Automatic Progress Tracking from Slack Conversations

The first feature I built was reading Slack conversations.

"Task A is done" "B implementation complete! Moving on to C next" "Having some trouble with D..."

From these normal conversations, AI understands "A is complete, B is also complete, currently working on C, D is a blocker." No special formatting or fixed templates required. Just chat as you normally would.

I was genuinely moved when this first worked. Just writing "Task 1 finished" in Slack, and Task 1 in the Gantt chart got marked as complete. I couldn't help but exclaim out loud.

Automatic Schedule Generation from Documents

The next challenge was automatic schedule generation from documents.

At the start of a project, we create various documents like requirements definitions and design specifications. Breaking these down into tasks and creating schedules is another time-consuming process.

So I implemented a feature where "upload a document and tasks and schedules are automatically generated."

You can upload PDFs, Word documents, any format. The AI identifies necessary tasks like "15 development tasks, 5 tests, design review needed." It also provides appropriate time estimates based on the scope.

Of course, the initial estimates aren't perfect. But adjustments like "this needs more time" or "these can be done in parallel" are reflected just by mentioning them in chat.

Complete Integration with GitHub and Jira

What I particularly focused on was solving the "information fragmentation" problem.

Close an Issue in GitHub, and the sytlas task completes automatically. Update a Jira ticket, and the Gantt chart syncs. Conversely, changes in sytlas reflect in other tools too.

In other words, everything stays synchronized no matter where you update. No more confusion about "where is the latest information?"

From "Management Tasks" to "Real Work"

What I valued most in developing sytlas was "creating an environment where everyone can focus on their real work."

In traditional project management, the PM had to understand, direct, and manage everything. But this puts a heavy burden on the PM and tends to make members passive.

With sytlas, members work at their own pace and just report completion in Slack. The overall schedule adjusts automatically. PMs are freed from detailed management tasks and can spend time on more important work.

A Bigger Vision

What I'm aiming for is a world with "zero management overhead."

Think about it. Project management is originally a means to "collaborate as a team to create something good." But currently, we spend so much time on the means that the essential "creating something good" part gets neglected.

With sytlas, management tasks are almost fully automated. That time and energy can be used for creative work. Coding, design thinking, improving user experience - activities that truly create value.

What We Want to Do Next

The basic features of sytlas are already developed, and we're currently making final adjustments for release. Core features like Slack integration, automatic Gantt chart updates, and schedule generation from documents are implemented, and we've started test operations in actual projects.

Planned feature expansions after release include predictive features that alert "at this pace, we might miss the deadline" and optimization suggestions like "this member's task load is high, consider redistribution."

In the future, we plan continuous feature expansion aimed at further efficiency and advanced automation of project management. We're steadily moving toward a future where we transform the very nature of project management and dramatically improve organizational productivity.

Finally

This has been long, but essentially, I wanted to share that we're developing a tool that "solves the complexity of project management through automation."

If you're struggling with "being overwhelmed by progress management" or "painful Gantt chart updates," I hope you'll remember sytlas.

Also, please share your thoughts on "features you'd like to see" or "challenges in your workplace." We want to develop this into a tool that everyone finds truly useful by incorporating real workplace feedback.

Pre-registration Now Open

sytlas is currently accepting pre-registrations for our official release.

For those who pre-register, we offer the following benefits:

• Priority access upon official release
• Special pricing for the first year
• Opportunities to provide product development feedback
• Beta test participation for exclusive features

If you're interested in improving project management efficiency, please consider pre-registering at this opportunity.