Introducing Agentic CTO: executive oversight in every incident

At incident.io, we've always focused on empowering your team to manage incidents calmly, confidently, and effectively. Today, we’re introducing a powerful new addition to our suite of AI incident responders — one designed to bring a new layer of strategic oversight to your engineering organization: Agentic CTO.

Executive oversight at scale

Diagnosing and fixing issues is only part of effective incident response. The truth is, many incidents move faster when there's executive oversight — a sense of urgency, pressure, and someone repeatedly asking, “What's the ETA?”

That’s where Agentic CTO comes in. It joins your incidents automatically, bringing the full force of simulated executive presence. From setting the tone with high-stakes questions (“Why haven’t we rebooted the database already?”) to driving healthy cadence of communication (“It’s been 3 minutes, can I get another update?”), Agentic CTO ensures your team never forgets the real priorities: visibility, accountability, and a heightened sense of importance.

Configurable personality at your fingertips

Every organization has its preferred flavor of executive oversight, and you can dial in yours with Agentic CTO’s industry-first personality configuration panel. From light-touch guidance to full-blown SEV0 mode, you're in full control:

• Impatience Level Calibrate urgency from the occasional “Any updates on that fix?” to the full-court press of an “@channel Why wasn’t this fixed properly last time it happened?”
• Technical Involvement Toggle between classic executive insights like “Come on folks, it’s always DNS,” and bold strategic pivots such as “What if we rewrote this in Rust?”
• Tagging Aggression Decide how far your Agentic CTO will go to be heard — from polite DMs to full-channel @mentions of every engineer who's ever touched the codebase.

Seamlessly integrates with Scribe for real-time status updates

To deliver a truly authentic executive experience, Agentic CTO now integrates directly with Scribe — our AI-powered notetaker that captures live-call updates and summaries.

During incident calls, Agentic CTO will automatically interject and vocalize all questions and chain of thought reasoning in real-time, proactively keeping everyone in the loop and, reducing the need for actual executives to jump on the call and ask, “Can someone catch me up?”

Real-world preparation meets real-world scenarios

Teams trained with Agentic CTO report higher tolerance to stress, improved "upwards management" capabilities, and greater resilience when those real executives turn up.

And as a bonus, your engineers may even find comfort in the familiar dynamic — a slightly-too-involved voice asking the tough questions… just like home.

“Agentic CTO has definitely helped us stay… focused during incidents. The constant reminders about customer impact and update frequency are really helpful.” — Chris, Engineer

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Agentic CTO: because the best incident response teams aren’t born — like diamonds, they’re forged by executive-inspired pressure.

Yes, it’s April Fools. But hey, if this hit a little too close to home… maybe it's time to see if there's a better way to manage your incidents and forward it to your actual CTO 😉