Introduction

Rocket Lead is a platform designed to help engineering, product, and operations teams build trust, improve performance, and grow through data-driven insights and AI-assisted guidance.
It provides dashboards and tools for managers, individual contributors, and cross-functional teams to understand their strengths, identify growth opportunities, and set measurable goals.


Core Features

1:1 Meeting Tools and Feedback System
Prepare and structure meaningful one‑on‑ones with templates and prompts. Capture notes, set follow‑up tasks and maintain a history of discussions. Pair it with an integrated feedback system that encourages timely, actionable feedback across your team.

AI Mentor
Receive personalised coaching and suggestions at your fingertips. Whether you’re looking to grow morale, build trust or enhance your impact, the AI Mentor provides tailored ideas you can implement immediately. It’s like having a leadership coach by your side—available whenever you need it.

Growth Framework
Understand what great leadership looks like at every level. The competency matrix outlines expectations for roles from Associate Engineer to Principal Engineer across areas such as craftsmanship, design, architecture and communication . Use it to set goals, assess your current level and plan your growth.

Growth Plans
Transform insights into action with structured growth plans. Each plan includes milestones, notes and action points so you can track your progress and see your improvement over time. Whether you’re learning software design, building trust within your team or developing as a mentor, Rocket Lead makes growth tangible and measurable.

Relationship Metrics
See how your colleagues experience working with you through metrics like Trust, Respect, Perception and Advocacy . Use these insights to celebrate strong relationships and address areas that need attention. Honest, ongoing feedback helps teams build a culture of mutual respect and support.

Analytics Dashboard
Monitor your team’s pulse with visual dashboards that track morale, engagement and performance. Data is aggregated from surveys and interactions, giving you a real‑time snapshot of how your team is doing. Spot trends early and act on them


Getting Started

  1. Define your team.
  2. Create your first team member by clicking on the Add a Team member button.
  3. Record first metrics as a baseline for trust, morale, and performance metrics.
  4. Create your first 1-1 meeting with the team member.
  5. Create your first growth plan for the team member.

Team Management

The My Team Overview page provides team leads and managers a quick and intuitive snapshot of each team member’s current health and performance metrics.

This page helps leaders monitor team dynamics, identify trends, and decide where to dig deeper or provide feedback.

Team Overview

Team Member Profiles

The Team Member Profile page lets team leads and people managers view, manage, and support individual contributors.
It centralizes data like performance metrics, meeting history, development plans, and growth goals in one place, making it easy to assess and support each team member.

  • Overview Tab: Role, metrics, and traits
  • 1:1 Meetings: Meeting notes and schedules
  • AI Mentor: Personalized guidance
  • Development Plan: Custom goals and milestones
  • Matrix / Reviews: Career progress and feedback
Team member profile

Team Dynamics

Track team-level trust, morale, performance, and goals. Capture insights and retrospectives.

Team dynamics

Relationships

Manage peer relationships with specific trust, respect, perception, and advocacy scores. Create and monitor relationship-focused goals.

Relationships

Growth Plans & Goals

Track progress at individual, team, and relationship levels. Use structured fields: Title, Type, Status, Actions, Notes.

Growing plans

Project Needs

Define needed competencies for current projects and align goals using growth-relevant categories.

Team dynamics

Growth Framework

Compare levels across disciplines with behavior definitions. Use for feedback, growth planning, and performance reviews.

Team dynamics

Notes & Feedback

  • Add team or relationship notes from any section.
  • Use the feedback widget to submit suggestions or issues.