Meet Volt
Today Volt opens to everyone. This is the first post on its blog, so it starts at the beginning: what Volt is, why we made it, and who makes it.
What Volt is
Volt is one place for a team’s projects. It holds the issues with their sprints and tracks, the docs, the calls with their recordings and summaries, and the hours everyone logged. Around all of it run loops: jobs that Volt does by itself, on a schedule or when something happens.
Why we made it
Running a project takes a lot of small work that nobody was hired to do. Asking everyone where things stand before the standup. Sorting the bugs that came in overnight. Turning an hour-long call into issues. Writing the Friday report. Each takes ten minutes, and together they take a good part of a manager’s week.
That work follows the same steps every time, and everything it needs is already in the project. So in Volt it is a loop, set up once.
A loop, for example
You open Loops, press New loop and write what you want: “Every Friday at 15:00, wrap up the week.” Volt sets up the loop: when it runs, and the instructions it follows. You read them and change what you like.
On Friday at 15:00 the loop reads the week’s issues, adds a wrap to the project’s doc Weekly wraps, sends you its main points with two charts, and sends each person the one to three issues that matter most for them next week.
Other loops start the day: each person gets a short list of what waits for them. Some wait for an event: when a call’s summary is written, a loop creates an issue for each thing someone agreed to do, with who took it and by when. There are templates to start from, and a loop can be anything you can describe.
Where your team already talks
Volt has no chat of its own: your team keeps talking where it already does. Connect Telegram, and your notifications come from Volt’s bot; reply to one to comment on the issue. A project’s group hears about new issues, finished work and meeting summaries, and loops can post the standup there.
Volt AI
Ask Volt AI about your work: “How is Sprint 23 going?”, “What is blocking the release?”. It answers from your issues, docs, meetings and pull requests, with charts when the answer is a number, and it can change things for you: create issues, write a doc, log time. It sees what you see and can change what you can change.
For engineering teams
An issue can be delegated to Claude Code. It works on your own computer, through Volt’s runner, with your own Claude plan and your access to the repository. It asks its questions in Volt, opens a draft pull request, and the review happens in Volt too: the diff, the threads and the merge.
Who we are
Volt is an independent product, and we build Volt in Volt. Its plans, issues and reviews live in a Volt workspace, and so do the loops that write our own reports. What we don’t like using gets fixed first.
Start
Volt starts free: two projects, 300 issues and 30 docs, with as many people as you like. Basic and Business take the limits off and cost $11 and $17 per member a month: see Pricing. To set up your first workspace, follow Start here.