Catch Slipping Deadlines Before They Slip

Zero watches your Linear issues, GitHub PRs, and calendar, then warns you in Slack when something is trending toward a missed deadline, while there is still time to act.

Zero connects:

What the problem is

The deadlines that hurt are the ones nobody saw coming. A ticket marked on track quietly stalls, a PR sits in review for three days, a launch date on the calendar creeps closer while the work behind it slips. By the time it surfaces in standup, the miss is already baked in. Catching it earlier means cross-referencing Linear, GitHub, and the calendar every day and holding it all in your head. Zero does that pass for you. It connects what is due to what is actually moving, and pings you the moment a deadline starts to look at risk, not after it is already missed.

How Zero fixes it

Step 1: Connect your tools

Linear

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Zero reads issues, milestones, and due dates to know what is supposed to land. Required.

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GitHub

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Zero reads PR status and review activity to judge whether the work is actually moving. Required.

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Calendar

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Zero reads dated launches and commitments so calendar deadlines are watched alongside tickets. Required.

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Slack

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Where Zero posts the daily at-risk brief and any follow-up nudges. Required.

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Step 2: Ask Zero

@Zero every weekday at 9am, cross-check our Linear deadlines against GitHub PR progress and my calendar. Flag anything trending toward a miss in #team and tell me why.

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Zero maps what is due

Zero pulls deadlines from Linear issues and milestones and from dated events on your calendar, building a single picture of what is supposed to land and when.

Zero checks what is actually moving

For each item, Zero looks at the real signals: is the issue progressing, is there an open PR, how long has it been in review, has anything stalled.

Zero flags what is trending late

Zero weighs the work remaining against the time left and surfaces the items at risk, each with a short reason: no reviews, no PR yet, blocked, or no movement.

Zero warns you in time to act

Zero posts a ranked Slack brief while there is still room to react, so a slipping deadline becomes a nudge today instead of a surprise next week.

Step 3: Take it further

Act on a flag

Ask Zero to chase the blocker directly from the brief

@Zero nudge the reviewer on PR #1771 and ask if they can get to it today.

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Tune the sensitivity

Adjust how early and how loudly Zero warns you

@Zero only flag deadlines as at risk when they are due within three days and have no open PR. Keep everything else quiet.

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Make it routine

Lock in the daily watch so nothing slips unseen

@Zero keep running this deadline check every weekday morning and only ping me when something moves from on track to at risk.

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Tips for better results

●Set due dates on your Linear issues and milestones. Zero can only guard deadlines it can see, so the more complete your dates, the better the coverage.

●Tune the threshold to your team's rhythm. A two-day no-movement window suits fast teams; longer cycles may want three days or more.

●Pair this with your daily engineering brief so the morning view covers both what happened overnight and what is about to slip.