Capacity · Tradeoffs · Delivery

Your roadmap assumes
the team you wish you had.

Tradeships is a scenario planner that shows exactly what your team can deliver — and what slips first — when staffing or priorities change.

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The problem

Every planning tool assumes you have enough people.
None of them help when you don't.

The org chart and the roadmap never talk to each other

You plan what to build in one tool, manage who's available in another, and reconcile the gap in a spreadsheet that's already out of date.

Moving one person breaks three things you didn't see coming

Skills aren't interchangeable. When your only frontend specialist moves to a new team, something on the roadmap quietly becomes impossible.

Scenarios live in your head, not somewhere you can share

"What if we hired one more engineer?" "What if we paused that initiative?" These conversations happen in meetings and disappear. The tradeoffs never get documented.

You commit to a roadmap before you know what it costs

By the time you realize the Q3 plan requires skills the team doesn't have at the level it needs, you've already told stakeholders it's happening.

"The question isn't what should we build. It's what can this specific team actually ship — and what's the real cost of changing the plan?"

— The gap Tradeships is built to close

How it works

Skill-aware. Sequence-aware. Scenario-ready.

On track At risk Will slip

Roadmap impact updates live as you move people between teams.

Map your team's skills

Define your people, their skill areas, and their availability. Not just headcount — actual capability, weighted by primary and secondary strengths.

Model your scenarios

Drag people between workstreams. Simulate a hire, a departure, a reorg, or a priority shift. Each scenario is independent and fully editable.

See what actually slips

The risk model shows exactly which roadmap items are protected and which are exposed — before you've committed to anything.

See it in action

Try the prototype with a generic team.

Move engineers between workstreams and watch the roadmap risk update in real time. The drag-and-drop interaction is the whole point — best experienced full screen.

tradeships.chrisaug.com/prototype

Demo screenshot coming soon

Full interactive demo at /prototype

Your roadmap assumesthe team you wish you had.

Every planning tool assumes you have enough people.None of them help when you don't.