It watches every card so the standup doesn't have to.
Blocked-task detection and next-up suggestions, built from signals already on your board. No black box - here is exactly what it reads and how far to trust it.
Blocked-task detection
A card that stops moving is the earliest sign of trouble, and the easiest to miss. KITEBED flags any card that crosses a threshold you set for time-in-stage with no comment or activity - before it costs the team a week.
Thresholds are per-workflow. A design task and a hotfix should not be judged stale on the same clock, so they aren't.
Prioritization from what is already on the board.
Next-up suggestions weigh four signals. Nothing hidden, nothing scraped from outside your workspace.
An honest note on reliability
Triage is a strong assistant, not an oracle. It is accurate on clear-cut cases - a card untouched for days, an obvious dependency chain, a deadline bearing down. On ambiguous work it surfaces a suggestion for a person to confirm, never a silent decision. Every flag and every priority is visible, explainable and easy to override. You stay in control; the AI just makes sure nothing goes unnoticed.
From raw signal to a ranked next step.
Read the board's own signals
Time-in-stage, comment gaps, dependency links and due dates - all already present on your cards, nothing scraped from outside.
Weigh them against your thresholds
Each workflow sets its own limits, so a hotfix and a design task are never judged stale on the same clock.
Surface it with the reasoning attached
The flag or ranking appears on the card with a plain-language why, so a person can confirm or override in a click.
Set the thresholds, keep the control
Triage is tuned by you, not imposed. Decide how long is too long for each stage, which fields count toward priority, and where a flag should show up. The system does the watching; you set what "stuck" means.
- Per-workflow staleness thresholds
- Priority weighting you can adjust
- Flags routed to the board, chat, or a digest
- Every suggestion explainable and reversible
What it deliberately won't do
It won't move, close or reassign a task on its own, won't hide its reasoning, and won't invent urgency that isn't backed by a signal. Triage is an early-warning layer over your board - it points, it never decides. The moment a suggestion needs judgement, it hands that judgement to a person.
Let the board flag what's stuck
Turn on triage and stalled work starts surfacing on its own - with the reasoning shown on every card.