projcity.com

What It Is

Projcity is an engineering metrics and developer health platform aimed at Engineering Managers, CTOs, VPs/Directors of Engineering, and PMs. It imports data from tools such as GitHub, Shortcut, and Linear, then provides analysis across delivery speed, PR reviews, quality, workload, team DNA, and the impact of AI coding. Its goal is to replace management intuition with real engineering data.

Core Capabilities

The product highlights 50+ metrics covering activity, delivery, quality, collaboration, cycle time, and the PR lifecycle, with breakdowns by team, developer, and project. One distinctive feature is Dynamic Archetypes, which identifies developers as Builder, Architect, Reviewer, Collaborator, Bug Fixer, or Exploratory, and tracks behavioral drift over time. For the AI coding era, it emphasizes metrics such as PR volume growth, PR size inflation, insufficient review depth, rework rate, and bug ratio. Another highlight is Projcity MCP, which lets users ask natural-language questions inside Claude Desktop/Claude Code, such as “who is at risk of burnout,” “when will this Epic be completed,” or “how should I prepare for a 1-on-1.”

Pricing and Integrations

Pricing is transparent: the Free plan is free forever and supports 3 users, 1 repository, and 26 basic metrics. Pro costs $10 per active developer per month and includes unlimited users/repositories, the full set of 50+ metrics, 1-year historical import, full AI assistant history, and priority email support. Pro comes with a 14-day free trial, requires no credit card, and automatically falls back to Free after the trial ends. Currently, it explicitly supports GitHub, Shortcut, Linear, and Claude MCP; GitLab, Jira, and Copilot are marked as Coming Soon in several places on the site.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths are clear positioning, friendly pricing, and a simple onboarding path. It also offers a relatively fresh management perspective around review bottlenecks and quality degradation caused by AI-generated code. The downside is that enterprise-grade information is limited: there is no visible mention of SOC 2, ISO 27001, data residency, RBAC, audit logs, self-hosting, or similar requirements. GitHub access requires a read-only token with repo scope; while Projcity states that it does not modify code, enterprises will still need to assess this during their own security review.

Who It’s For and Access from China

Projcity is best suited to small-to-mid-sized engineering teams using GitHub/Shortcut/Linear that want to quickly set up engineering productivity dashboards and data-driven input for 1-on-1s. For access from China, Projcity’s own availability is unclear, but its core AI experience depends on Claude Desktop/Claude Code, which is usually partially restricted in mainland China. Payment methods are also not disclosed. If you need localized procurement, Chinese-language support, or private deployment, it may be worth evaluating domestic engineering productivity platforms as well as alternatives such as Swarmia, LinearB, Jellyfish, and Velocity.