Manifesto · v1

Behavioural Process Intelligence:
the next category in enterprise SaaS.

Process Mining showed us what enterprise software actually does. Behavioural Process Intelligence shows us what teams actually do. Same instinct (observe what is real, not what is declared) applied to a new substrate: humans plus SaaS, not bots plus ERP.


1. There is a category-shaped hole in your stack.

The work your team actually does does not live inside one tool. A pull request opens in GitHub, gets argued over in Slack, ships with a Linear ticket no one updated, and the postmortem never gets written. The handoffs in between are the work. They are also invisible. There is no system of record for behavior.

Engineering managers know which rituals their team has only by having watched a hundred standups. They lose that legibility the moment the team grows past their attention span.

2. Process Mining was the answer for ERP. It is not the answer here.

Celonis built a $13B company by mining what bots actually do inside SAP and ServiceNow. The instinct is right: observe the real, not the declared. The substrate is wrong for modern teams. ERP event logs are dense, structured, single-system. Engineering work is sparse, unstructured, and stitched together across forty SaaS tools.

3. Behavioural Process Intelligence.

One sentence: the platform that observes how teams actually work and deploys agents to run the rituals worth running.

The unit of observation is the ritual — a recurring multi-tool sequence with a stable signature. Twelve seeded rituals to start, named to travel: silent merge, ladder break, ritual decay, orphan ticket, half-Friday ship, cold review, stale-design code, postmortem skip, phantom standup, solo handoff, load-bearing actor, decay drift. The vocabulary is the moat.

The artifact is the Mirror — a weekly briefing in the language of investigative journalism. Not metrics. Not dashboards. Specific events. Specific dates. Specific people. The kind of writing your VPE will actually forward to the board.

The execution layer is the Agents — never speculative. An agent only ships once the ritual it is compiled from has fired consistently in the Mirror. Observation gates action. That is the trust loop.

4. Engineering first.

Engineering teams are the wedge. The toolchain is uniform across the industry (GitHub, Slack, Linear, Notion, Google Suite). The buyer is identifiable. The pain is acute and shared. The named patterns are concrete enough to build a Mirror voice nobody else in this space has.

Then security and SRE. Then RevOps. Then product. Same platform, different packs.

5. We are taking a small lighthouse cohort.

Five engineering teams. Free for a year. White-glove setup. No contracts, no commitments. We watch silently for thirty days and find what we missed.

If you run engineering at a 15–500 person company and you want a Mirror of your team, write to aditya@assemblr.net or book a demo. One paragraph about your team is enough.


Manifesto v1 · published 2026-05-03 · live document, edited as the lighthouse cohort teaches us