Estimates that account for the person doing the work.
A story point isn’t the same size for everyone. Ambera Forge personalizes effort estimates to each engineer, tracks per-person velocity, holds a QA reserve so the sprint has room to breathe, and flags over-commitment before it turns into burnout.
AMB-412
Migrate auth to the new session service
3 pts
Team baseline
+15%
QA reserve
82%
Sprint load
How it fits
Sits on top of your tracker.
Forge doesn’t replace Linear or Jira — it works alongside them. Your team keeps planning where it already does; Forge adds a layer of estimation that knows who’s doing the work.
Estimate personalization
The same ticket carries a different cost for a senior who owns the service and someone seeing it for the first time. Forge adjusts the estimate to whoever picks it up.
Per-person velocity
Velocity stops being a single team average. Forge learns how each engineer actually closes points over time, so planning reflects reality, not a blended guess.
Sprint QA reserve
Every sprint holds back a slice of capacity for testing, review, and the unplanned. The reserve is visible up front instead of discovered on the last day.
Burnout-aware planning
When a sprint plan runs past what someone can sustainably carry, Forge flags the over-commitment early — while there’s still room to rebalance the load.
The privacy membrane
Your energy stays yours.
Forge personalizes estimates without ever handing your energy data to your team. Each person’s ledger lives in their own Ambera account. The organization sees the estimate — never the reason behind it.
Stays private to each person
- The energy ledger and how a day felt
- Why an estimate moved up or down
- Recovery, depletion, and check-in history
What the org ever sees
- De-identified story-point estimates
- Confidence bands on each estimate
- Sprint capacity and reserve, in aggregate
This is enforced structurally, not just promised in a policy. The energy data never crosses into the org’s side of the membrane, so there’s nothing on that side to leak or subpoena.
Pricing
One plan, priced per seat.
Start free, then add Forge Pro per active seat. Billing is on the web through Stripe — no app store cut, no per-feature gates.
Forge Pro
$12/ seat / month
or $120 / seat / year — 2 months free
Estimation that knows who’s doing the work.
- Personalized, per-engineer story-point estimates with confidence bands
- Per-person velocity that learns from how work actually closes
- Burnout-aware sprint reserve, held back automatically
- AI assists tuned to your team’s calibration history
- Team calibration depth that sharpens as you log
A free tier is always available — try Forge with your team before adding seats.
Plan for the people, not the average.
Bring Ambera Forge to your team’s tracker and start estimating with the person in the picture. Free to try, no app store required.