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Chris Evans
Co-Founder & CPO

I'm one of the co-founders and the Chief Product Officer of incident.io.

Words here are my own, unless they get me in trouble, in which case they're all incident.io's.

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Article

On-call by default

Like many SaaS businesses, we have an on-call rota to enable us to provide 24x7 cover if there are problems with incident.io. We have a 'pager' which will alert the relevant person if something unexpected happens in our app, so that they can investigate and fix it if needed.

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Chris Evans

3 min read
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Article

Workflows: your process, automated

We're delighted to announce the latest feature of the incident.io platform: Workflows. Configure your processes once, and we'll make sure you follow them, every time.

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8 min read
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Article

Five steps to better customer communication

Great communication with your customers can quickly turn a negative into a positive. We lay out our five steps to better incident communication.

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Chris Evans

6 min read
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Article

Postmortem Pitfalls

I sat down with Gergely Orosz to talk about what happens when the dust settles, and you're looking back on your incident with a postmortem.

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Chris Evans

6 min read
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Podcast

incident.io on Ship It!

A few weeks ago, Stephen and I had the pleasure of talking to @Gerhard on changelog’s Ship It! Podcast. We chatted about incident workflows, our relentless focus on simplicity, and how incident.io uses incident.io when we have incidents ourselves.

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Chris Evans

8 min read
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We’ve raised $4.7 million from Index Ventures, Point Nine, and a host of incredible angels

We’re delighted to announce we’ve teamed up with Index Ventures and Point Nine to supercharge the next stage of growth and development at incident.io. With the support of number of angels, many of whom are customers too, we’re in the perfect position to deliver on our mission of world-class incident management for the whole organization 🚀

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Chris Evans

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Move fast when you break things