SpeakGeek

Speak Geek, Not Jargon

Because 'Have you tried clearing your cache?' isn't a status update.

📺 IT Sitcom — Now Streaming in Your Slack

Where SpeakGeek Saves the Communication Chain

Every company has a relay race: engineers find the fire, managers carry the bucket, clients just want to know if their house is okay. We translate the baton.

The MSP Middleman

Your NOC finds it. Your AM explains it. The client survives it.

👨‍💻

NOC Engineer

Sees red alerts

🧑‍💼

Account Manager

Panics gently

👔

Client CEO

Just wants answers

😬 What they'd send

P1: BGP flapping on edge router AS64512, packet loss 34%, OSPF adjacency down

✨ With SpeakGeek

We're seeing intermittent connectivity issues affecting your site. Our team is actively working on it and we'll update you within 30 minutes.

Without SpeakGeek, the CEO thinks BGP is a new cryptocurrency.

The Friday Firewall

Engineering knows the truth. Leadership needs the headline.

🛠️

SysAdmin

Coffee #4

📊

IT Director

Budget season

💼

CFO

Asks about cost

😬 What they'd send

Disk array degraded, RAID 5 rebuild failed, hot spare not available, data at risk on VM cluster

✨ With SpeakGeek

We have a storage issue that could affect some systems. We're replacing hardware now. No data lost yet. Estimated fix: 2 hours. No unplanned costs expected.

Urgent mode turns 'RAID rebuild failed' into 'here's what we're doing' in 8 seconds.

The Ticket Translator

Tier 1 writes it. Tier 3 fixes it. The customer reads neither.

🎧

Helpdesk

Closes ticket

📋

Support Lead

Rewrites twice

😊

End User

Finally understands

😬 What they'd send

User auth failing — LDAP bind error 49, invalid credentials post-migration, GPO sync pending

✨ With SpeakGeek

Some users are having trouble signing in after our recent system update. We're resetting affected accounts and expect everyone to be back in within the hour.

Gentle mode: because 'LDAP bind error 49' sounds like a court summons.

The Agency Lifeline

Same incident, three audiences, zero awkward client calls.

⚙️

DevOps

Deploy rollback

📅

Project Manager

Client call in 5

🏢

Retainer Client

Checks email nervously

😬 What they'd send

502 Bad Gateway — upstream nginx timeout, API pod OOMKilled, HPA scaling lag 4min

✨ With SpeakGeek

Your website experienced a brief slowdown this morning due to high traffic. We've resolved it and added safeguards to prevent recurrence.

One paste. Three modes. Nobody learns what OOMKilled means. Ever.

🧰 Try before you translate

System Template Examples

Pick a real-world incident scenario. The form fills automatically — hit "See Example Results" for a preview. No API calls, no credits used.

Example input

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📋Neutral

Professional, straightforward status update

ERROR: Connection pool exhausted on prod-db-03 java.sql.SQLException: Timeout after 30000ms waiting for connection Affected services: checkout-api, order-processor 847 failed transactions since 14:32 UTC Root cause: runaway reporting query consuming all connections Action taken: Killed query PID 88421, scaling read replica
System

Production Database / Payment API

Timeline

Started 45 minutes ago, fix in progress

Severity

high

Audience

External Client

Preview only — does not use your translation quota

Example output

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Translate technical jargon for clients, executives, and end users

SpeakGeek helps IT teams, MSPs, and developers turn raw technical input — error logs, stack traces, outage notes, and internal status updates — into clear, client-friendly language. Instead of copy-pasting jargon into emails, paste it here and get a polished summary, impact assessment, and recommended actions in seconds.

Choose Gentle, Urgent, or Neutral translation modes depending on your audience. Add context tags for the affected system, severity, timeline, and audience type to tailor every message. Whether you are explaining a database outage, SSL certificate renewal, or a scheduled patch window, SpeakGeek helps you communicate like a human — not a syslog file.