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Every quarterback has a coach in their ear.
Your software team deserves one too.
Backlog Whisper is a Jira plugin that reveals hidden risks and missing tasks in your backlog, before they surface in production.
Powered by your own LLM API vendor, so you always stay in control of your own backlog data.
Exposing the risks
no one discovered
in planning.
Backlog Whisper is for professional product owners and scrum masters who understand the value of risk mitigation and proper planning. With AI it analyzes your Jira backlog and catches the hidden security & compliance risks and tasks each story item often carries, and are often overlooked by the team:
- Undeclared dependencies, security, DevOps and compliance gaps
- Unclear decisions quietly left to the dev team to figure out
- Forgotten CVEs or library updates
With Backlog Whisper you catch them before they become production incidents.
Runs inside Atlassian Forge. You bring your own LLM API key, so your backlog data stays in your control. The analysis is billed to you and never routed through us.
Sound familiar?
Sprints fail for the same reasons.
Every time.
A security hole shipped because nobody flagged it.
The story added a public endpoint. Nobody asked who could call it. Three sprints later it is a line item on a pen-test report.
The feature was fine. The data residency was not.
EU customer data started flowing through a US-only service. Legal found out after go-live, not during planning.
The library everyone forgot has a CVE.
A dependency three versions behind just got flagged critical. Nobody remembers who added it, and nobody owns the upgrade.
No audit trail, no SOC 2.
The story deletes user records. The audit log the compliance framework requires only got added after the auditor asked where it was.
Stories were "ready." Until they weren't.
Dev starts. Day two: the API the story depends on does not exist yet. The sprint is already behind.
Decisions deferred to the dev team.
"We will figure out the data model during implementation." Three days later you are in an emergency planning session.
Why it matters
Meet every risk in planning,
while it is still cheap to fix.
Fewer mid-sprint surprises
Blockers, dependencies and undefined decisions surface while you plan, not on day two of the sprint when the team is already committed.
Cheaper fixes
The same gap costs a conversation in planning and an incident review in production. You decide where you meet it.
Estimates you can trust
Stories enter the sprint with their hidden work already visible, so the estimate covers the work that actually exists.
Built for
The people who own sprint success.
Product Managers
Catch scope gaps, compliance obligations and missing decisions before engineering starts, while changing them is still cheap. Your roll-out planning has never been more realistic.
- Surface compliance gaps before legal does
- Identify stories that need more definition
- Spot when two stories pull in different directions
Scrum Masters & CTOs
Walk into planning with a second expert view on the backlog. Reveal the hidden blockers and know how to take action before the team commits, not after they are stuck.
- Flag deployment and DevOps concerns before development
- Flag stories that are not ready for development
- See which stories touch expiring or vulnerable tech
30-second quiz
Is Backlog Whisper for you?
Three questions, an instant answer. No email required.
Question 1 of 3
Do you use Jira?
What Backlog Whisper catches
Four categories of insight,
calibrated for software teams.
Every finding is graded CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM or LOW and arrives with the reason it matters and a concrete next step. Dismissed findings stay dismissed.
Platform Health
Scalability limits, single points of failure, and observability gaps that only show up under load.
Dev & Operations
Missing acceptance criteria, undeclared dependencies between stories, rollout and rollback gaps.
AI & Data
Model choice and retirement dates, data retention, evaluation gaps, and prompt-handling risks.
Legal & Compliance
GDPR, the EU AI Act, SOC 2, accessibility and consent obligations implied by what a story describes.
Compliance frameworks are part of the paid edition.
See everything it checks, in detail
Also included: Tech Tracer
Automatic tech registry health surveillance
Stop being surprised by outdated libraries. Register the technologies you run and our Tech Tracer automatically alerts you in due time about end-of-life dates, known CVE vulnerabilities from the OSV database, and certificate and domain expiry dates. When a story touches something that is expiring or carries a CVE, that connection gets made for you.
In your Jira
What it looks like on a real backlog.
No new tool to learn and no extra dashboard to keep open. Whispers live inside the Jira backlog you already run sprints from, graded by severity and grouped in a matrix you can read in seconds.
Why trust it
Grounded in more than a model.
Gated by a golden corpus
Every change to the analysis engine must pass a corpus of real-world sprint-failure scenarios before it ships. If quality drops, the change does not go out.
Named data sources
CVE and end-of-life findings come from the OSV vulnerability database and vendor lifecycle pages, not from what a model happens to remember.
Your key, your data
Runs on Atlassian Forge. Stories go only to the AI provider you choose, on your own API key, never through our servers.