What is Zest?
Zest is an AI-powered platform built to enhance developer productivity and optimize team performance. Directly integrated into VS Code, Zest captures coding activity in real time and transforms it into actionable insights, giving teams a clear understanding of how code is written, where time is spent, and which workflows can be improved. Key features include: AI Standups: Automate daily and weekly status updates with summaries of work completed, in-progress tasks, and potential blockers. Metrics Tracking: Monitor individual and team performance with detailed analytics on coding activity, time management, and workflow efficiency. AI Hints & Cheatcodes: Receive contextual guidance and quick solutions to common coding challenges, reducing repetitive work and speeding up problem-solving. Workspace Adoption Analytics: Gain visibility into which tools and workflows are being utilized, helping teams standardize practices and optimize resource usage. Leaderboards: Encourage engagement and healthy competition within teams by tracking achievements, milestones, and performance trends. Zest promotes transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement. By turning everyday coding sessions into measurable insights, it empowers teams to collaborate more effectively, adopt best practices, and continuously enhance development processes—making coding not only faster but smarter.
Zest's Core Features
Real-time Activity Capture
Continuously records coding sessions and AI usage in VS Code (and supported integrations) to build an accurate timeline of work, time spent, and blockers without manual tracking.
AI Standups & Summaries
Automatically generates daily and weekly standup summaries from captured activity: what was completed, in-progress items, and potential blockers — eliminating manual status updates.
Contextual AI Hints & Cheatcodes
Provides contextual guidance, reusable prompts and 'cheatcodes' captured from high-performing sessions so developers can replicate effective approaches and solve recurring issues faster.
Team Metrics & Analytics
Detailed dashboards and reports on individual and team performance, coding time, stuck time, workflow efficiency, and trends to identify bottlenecks and measure improvements.
Workspace Adoption & Leaderboards
Tracks AI/tool adoption across the organization, highlights gaps, and encourages engagement with leaderboards and shareable cheatcodes to standardize best practices.