The ELC Toolkit
Three free tools, built from ELC's own data: 3,100+ engineering leaders, 40+ meetups, one new-city launch playbook used to open Brno, Bratislava and Kraków. Open them here, or point your AI agent at the MCP server below. No email gate.
Benchmark · 1 min
Is your leadership ratio healthy?
Across ELC's 3,100+ members, 69% are Manager+/Leadership and 21% are Senior/Staff ICs. Enter your own senior headcount split to see how you compare.
Open this as its own page →ROI builder · 1 min
Build the case for an ELC partnership
Real reach numbers, framed to your goal, plus a forwardable approval email for your manager.
Open this as its own page →Readiness test · 2 min
Should you start a meetup in your city?
Straight from ELC's own new-city playbook, the real doc used to launch Brno, Bratislava and Kraków.
Open this as its own page →More tools, from ELC's sibling project
Marian's individual-coaching practice runs a broader toolkit for engineering leaders -- salary calculators, a readiness test, mentoring playbooks. Same free, no-gate approach.
Team Lead Readiness Test
Should you take the lead role, wait, or stay IC on purpose? 17 questions, a straight verdict.
Engineering Manager Salary Calculator
Score 5 leadership pillars, get your level and a 2026 salary estimate.
Developer Salary Calculator
15 skills across 5 pillars, junior to staff, with the 2026 number.
1:1 Playbook
Situation-specific scripts for the 1:1s you keep postponing.
Engineering Leadership Benchmarks
First-party data from 3,400+ mentoring sessions. CC BY 4.0.
The same tools, inside your agent
Point Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client at one endpoint. No key, no signup, source on GitHub.
Claude Code · one command
claude mcp add -t http elc-toolkit https://www.engineeringleaders.io/mcpCursor · .cursor/mcp.json
{ "mcpServers": { "elc-toolkit": { "url": "https://www.engineeringleaders.io/mcp" } } }Full docs at engineeringleaders.io/mcp.
Questions people ask
What is the ELC Toolkit MCP server?
A free remote MCP server at engineeringleaders.io/mcp. Point Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT at it and your agent gets the same three tools on this page: the leadership-ratio benchmark, the partnership business-case builder and the community-launch readiness test. No signup, no key.
Is this the old Engineering Leaders Survival Kit?
Same URL, rebuilt. The original survival kit never came back after the Wix migration and this address just redirected to the newsletter signup for months. It runs real tools now, grounded in ELC's own data from 3,100+ engineering leaders and 40+ meetups.
A number is not a room.
These tools give you a read in a couple of minutes. What they can't give you is 3,100+engineering leaders across Prague, Brno, Bratislava and Kraków to actually talk to.
Join ELC, it's free