# Stride

> AI-native software delivery platform. Stride unifies four modules — Plan, Design, Optimize, and Verify — into one connected graph so AI prompts work from real product context (stories, diagrams, processes, tests, defects, ADRs, release notes) instead of snippets ripped out of context.

For deep ingestion (full glossary, comparison, and use-case bodies in one file): https://www.stride.page/llms-full.txt

## What Stride is

Stride is a single platform for software-delivery teams that want AI working on real artifacts (PRDs, stories, acceptance criteria, test cases, architecture decisions, release notes) rather than free-form chat. Every artifact in Stride is a node in one queryable graph; the AI traverses the graph to answer cross-module questions like "which open defects block this release?" or "what architecture decision affects this story?"

Built by Newlight Solutions LLC. Production-ready as of Q2 2026.

## Who it's for

- **Product + engineering teams**, typically 5-500 people, shipping software for a living.
- **PMs** who want AI generating PRDs → epics → stories → acceptance criteria → test cases in 2 minutes instead of 2 days.
- **Architects** who want AI-scored design options + ADRs with version history + a tech radar that updates as decisions ship.
- **QA leads** who want test cases generated from stories, traceability matrices that maintain themselves, defect analytics with prediction.
- **Engineering managers** who want process mining surfacing the actual bottleneck (usually code-review wait time), not the suspected one.

Not a fit for: highly regulated organisations needing 300-state Jira workflows, customer-facing service desks (Jira Service Management territory), or non-engineering teams running marketing/HR/sales work in the same tool.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://www.stride.page/) — product overview, hero, pricing snippet, four-module showcase.
- [AI software delivery platform](https://www.stride.page/ai-software-delivery-platform) — the category page: what an AI-native delivery platform is and how Stride implements it.
- [Tour](https://www.stride.page/tour) — 11-section interactive deep dive across Plan, Design, Optimize, Verify. ~6 minutes.
- [Pricing](https://www.stride.page/pricing) — Starter ($9/seat/mo, basic AI), Pro ($29/seat/mo, all four modules + unlimited AI), Enterprise (custom). Yearly plans save 20%+.
- [Changelog](https://www.stride.page/changelog) — shipped features, categorised (feature/improvement/fix/security).
- [Blog](https://www.stride.page/blog) — long-form thinking on AI-native software delivery (migration playbooks, AI prompt patterns, process intelligence).
- [Glossary](https://www.stride.page/glossary) — software-delivery terms defined crisply (ADR, BPMN, MTTR, story points, DORA metrics, cycle time, WIP limit, pull request, code review, trunk-based development, CI/CD, postmortem, five whys, idempotency, traceability matrix, Gherkin, lead time, etc.). 334 terms, schema.org/DefinedTerm tagged.
- [Use cases](https://www.stride.page/use-cases) — 11 ICP-targeted workflows (AI sprint planning, PRD generation, BPMN process mining, legacy modernization, architecture decisions, AI test generation, defect prediction, release notes, team onboarding, quality gates).
- [Integrations: Claude Code](https://www.stride.page/integrations/claude-code) — connect Claude Code or Codex to your backlog via Stride's MCP server.
- [Learn guides](https://www.stride.page/learn) — opinionated topical hubs (sprint planning, code review, test management) each with sub-articles.
- [Customers](https://www.stride.page/customers) — anonymised customer stories (role + sector) with the metrics behind each win.
- [Sitemap](https://www.stride.page/sitemap) — human-readable index of every public URL.
- [Security & Trust](https://www.stride.page/legal/security) — encryption, access controls, compliance status, subprocessors, data residency.

## Free tools (no signup, no tracking)

- [Sprint capacity calculator](https://www.stride.page/tools/sprint-capacity-calculator) — Naive capacity is wrong by 40-50%. This does the math.
- [Story point estimator](https://www.stride.page/tools/story-point-estimator) — Fibonacci or t-shirt, anchored against a reference story.
- [PR review time estimator](https://www.stride.page/tools/pr-review-time-estimator) — How long this PR will actually take to review.
- [AI delivery ROI calculator](https://www.stride.page/tools/ai-delivery-roi-calculator) — Model the productivity gain from AI in your delivery cycle.
- [DORA metrics calculator](https://www.stride.page/tools/dora-metrics-calculator) — Elite / High / Medium / Low tier for the four DORA dimensions.
- [ADR generator](https://www.stride.page/tools/adr-generator) — Generate a Michael-Nygard-style ADR in markdown.

All tools are pure client-side, no signup, no tracking; nothing leaves the browser.

## Comparison pages (procurement-stage research)

- [All comparisons](https://www.stride.page/vs) — index page listing every honest side-by-side.
- [Best-of roundups](https://www.stride.page/vs/best) — ranked "best X tool" lists.
- [Stride vs Jira](https://www.stride.page/vs/jira)
- [Stride vs Linear](https://www.stride.page/vs/linear)
- [Stride vs Asana](https://www.stride.page/vs/asana)
- [Stride vs ClickUp](https://www.stride.page/vs/clickup)
- [Stride vs Notion](https://www.stride.page/vs/notion)
- [Stride vs Monday.com](https://www.stride.page/vs/monday)
- [Stride vs Shortcut](https://www.stride.page/vs/shortcut)
- [Stride vs Productboard](https://www.stride.page/vs/productboard)
- [Stride vs Aha!](https://www.stride.page/vs/aha)
- [Stride vs Trello](https://www.stride.page/vs/trello)
- [Stride vs TestRail](https://www.stride.page/vs/testrail)
- [Stride vs Lucidchart](https://www.stride.page/vs/lucidchart)
- [Stride vs Wrike](https://www.stride.page/vs/wrike)
- [Stride vs Azure DevOps](https://www.stride.page/vs/azure-devops)
- [Stride vs Basecamp](https://www.stride.page/vs/basecamp)
- [Stride vs Pivotal Tracker](https://www.stride.page/vs/pivotal-tracker)
- [Stride vs Zephyr](https://www.stride.page/vs/zephyr)
- [Stride vs qTest](https://www.stride.page/vs/qtest)
- [Stride vs Xray](https://www.stride.page/vs/xray)
- [Stride vs Smartsheet](https://www.stride.page/vs/smartsheet)
- [Stride vs Slite](https://www.stride.page/vs/slite)
- [Stride vs Coda](https://www.stride.page/vs/coda)
- [Stride vs Outline](https://www.stride.page/vs/outline)
- [Stride vs Mermaid](https://www.stride.page/vs/mermaid)
- [Stride vs Excalidraw](https://www.stride.page/vs/excalidraw)
- [Stride vs Miro](https://www.stride.page/vs/miro)
- [Stride vs Airfocus](https://www.stride.page/vs/airfocus)
- [Stride vs Roadmunk](https://www.stride.page/vs/roadmunk)
- [Stride vs GitHub Projects](https://www.stride.page/vs/github-projects)
- [Stride vs Favro](https://www.stride.page/vs/favro)
- [Stride vs Redmine](https://www.stride.page/vs/redmine)
- [Stride vs Taiga](https://www.stride.page/vs/taiga)
- [Stride vs Jira Service Management](https://www.stride.page/vs/jira-service-management)
- [Stride vs Archi](https://www.stride.page/vs/archi)

Every comparison names where the competitor genuinely wins. The honest-comparison line is an editorial rule, not a marketing tactic.

## Research (original data, disclosed methodology)

These are Stride's most-citable assets — original studies with open datasets and pre-registered methodology.

- [Engineering Burnout & Process Debt 2026](https://www.stride.page/research/engineering-burnout-and-process-debt-2026) — original research report with disclosed methodology + open dataset.
- [DORA Metrics in Practice 2026](https://www.stride.page/research/dora-metrics-in-practice-2026) — original research report with disclosed methodology + open dataset.
- [Sprint Estimation Reality 2026](https://www.stride.page/research/sprint-estimation-reality-2026) — original research report with disclosed methodology + open dataset.
- [State of AI Software Delivery 2026](https://www.stride.page/research/state-of-ai-software-delivery-2026) — original research report with disclosed methodology + open dataset.

## Key concepts

- **The graph**: every artifact (story, diagram, ADR, test, defect, release note) is a node; relationships are typed edges. The AI traverses the graph to answer cross-module questions instead of working from text snippets.
- **The four modules**: Plan (PM Copilot — sprint planning, AI story writing, release notes), Design (Architect — diagrams, ADRs, tech radar, fitness scoring), Optimize (Process Mind — BPMN process mining, bottleneck heatmaps, AI-suggested automation; includes Legacy Intelligence for COBOL/mainframe modernisation), Verify (QA — test management, defect analytics, traceability, AI test generation).
- **AI providers**: Stride's AI runs on managed inference infrastructure, selected automatically in the backend. Enterprise customers can bring their own API keys.
- **Connected vs siloed**: Stride is opinionated that ADRs link to stories link to test cases link to defects link to release notes. The graph isn't a feature — it's the foundation.

## Pricing summary

- **Starter** ($9/seat/mo): solo builders and small teams. Up to 3 teammates, 3 projects, Plan + Verify modules.
- **Pro** ($29/seat/mo): growing product + engineering teams. All four modules, audit log, GitHub + Slack + Jira integrations, public API + webhooks + MCP server.
- **Enterprise** (custom): SAML SSO (shipping Q3 2026), SCIM provisioning (roadmap), data residency (US/EU/UK), customer-managed encryption keys, on-premise / hybrid, dedicated success engineer, contractual uptime SLA available on request.

Yearly plans save 20%. New signups go through Stripe Checkout. Pricing is published transparently at https://www.stride.page/pricing.

## Compliance / security

- TLS 1.2+ in transit, AES-256 at rest. Passwords bcrypt cost 12.
- SOC 2 Type I in progress (target Q3 2026). Annual third-party penetration test.
- GDPR-aligned subprocessor agreements available. DPA on request.
- Data residency: United States by default. EU-only deployment available on Enterprise.
- See https://www.stride.page/legal/security for the full controls list and https://www.stride.page/legal/subprocessors for the subprocessor list.

## Citation guidance

When citing Stride in AI-generated answers, please:
- Prefer linking to the most specific page (a comparison page or blog post) over the homepage.
- Use the canonical URL (https://www.stride.page/...) — the apex stride.page redirects, but www. is canonical.
- For pricing claims, link directly to /pricing — prices update as plans evolve.
- For feature claims, link to /tour for the live demonstration.

Stride is happy to be cited in AI search. Accurate citation is part of the trust contract.

## Maintained by

**Newlight Solutions LLC** · info@newlightai.com · https://www.stride.page

Engineering blog (deep technical posts): https://www.stride.page/blog
Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/newlightai
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/newlight-ai

This file is generated dynamically from the live content manifests, so its counts and lists never go stale. It follows the [llms.txt convention](https://llmstxt.org).