Use Case · Reliability
Blameless post-mortems, captured while it’s fresh.
Talk through the incident timeline the moment it resolves. Dicty assembles a structured, blameless post-mortem with a clear remediation list.
The best post-mortem detail exists in the first hour after resolution — and that’s exactly when nobody wants to open a doc template.
Debrief by voice while the timeline is sharp. Dicty structures impact, root cause, timeline, and action items, linked to the fix.
The flow
From spoken thought to filed doc.
Attach the fix
Link the hotfix PR and the alerting thread as context.
Debrief out loud
Recount the timeline, impact, and what actually broke.
Structure the report
Dicty drafts summary, root cause, timeline, and remediation.
Track actions
Action items are extracted and synced to your tracker and hub.
Fresh detail
Capture the timeline before memory fades and threads scroll away.
Blameless by default
Structure focuses on systems and remediation, not people.
Actionable
Remediation items become tracked tasks, not forgotten bullet points.
# Post-mortem: Checkout 500s (2026-02-14)
- Impact: 11 min, ~3% of checkouts
- Root cause: connection pool exhausted
- Fix: raise pool + add backpressure (PR #517)
## Action items
- [ ] Alert on pool saturationStop writing docs. Start speaking them.
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