Measure AI developer productivity — the real Claude Code ROI
Productivity multipliers you can take to a CFO. 1.8× team average, 14.3× peak, 0.8× on legacy code — numbers you can only get by measuring.
The measurement crisis
- Google DORA 2024: PR review up 441%, bugs per dev up 54%, incidents per PR up 242% — in AI-heavy orgs.
- Vendor dashboards report tab-completion counts — vanity metrics no CFO can defend.
- Without per-project attribution, the AI ROI question is unanswerable — the result depends entirely on which team and which codebase.
Real multipliers, per developer, per project, per model
Session data + git history + token spend — attributed per developer, project, and model. DORA-aligned.
Productivity multiplier
Measured, not claimed. Pre-AI commit cadence is the baseline; we report the true multiplier per developer and project — separating backend (high) from infrastructure (flat) from legacy refactor (often negative).
DORA overlay
All four DORA metrics with AI-session volume as a second axis. See whether AI lifted deployment frequency, flattened change-failure rate, or made things worse.
Cost per commit
Token spend on Opus ($15/$75 per million), Sonnet ($3/$15), and Haiku ($0.80/$4) divided by commits produced — per developer, project, and week.
What AI insights revealed on our own team
The range is the insight.
Numbers the CFO accepts
- Productivity multipliers with confidence intervals — not marketing slogans.
- DORA + SPACE overlays fit your existing engineering KPI deck.
- Cost-per-commit attribution for quarterly budget reviews.
Spend trails are audit trails
- Every token tied to a user, project, and prompt. Full audit path.
- Anomaly detection on spend spikes — catch runaway scripts before the invoice.
- Per-seat hard caps via API — no single developer burns the month's budget.
Works with your existing engineering KPI stack
Related features
Questions engineering leaders ask about AI ROI
Turn AI spend into defensible numbers
A 15-minute demo with a founder. See real multipliers on a real dashboard.