Engineering AI ROI

Are you shipping faster?
Or just spending more on engineering?

We measure how AI impacts your delivery speed and quality. Then we work alongside your team to compound the gains.

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Built by technology operators who scaled VC-backed companies and shipped software used by Fortune 100s. Product, engineering, and security in one team.

The Problem

What is the real ROI on AI?

Your engineers use Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code every day. Your AI budget is climbing. Engineering is 40–60% of your company's spend. Whether any of it is moving product velocity is usually a guess.

The metrics available count inputs: tokens, seats, license usage. They don't measure outcomes. They can't answer what matters: is it working, and where?

88%

of organizations use AI tools

6%

capture meaningful enterprise value from it

Source: McKinsey, 2025 Global Survey of 2,000 executives across industries.

Approach

From guess to ground truth in 90 days.

We work alongside your engineering leadership. We set up our measurement system to capture productivity baseline and AI adoption. We partner with you to move the metrics that matter: velocity, quality, AI leverage. On day 91, the measurement keeps running.

Week 1

Set Up

GitHub and Slack connected. Measurement system live. Baseline capture begins.

Weeks 2–12

Measure

Signal flows to dashboards. Productivity and AI adoption become visible. Trends emerge.

Weeks 3–12

Advise

Better AI leverage. Data-backed calls. Velocity that sustains.

Approach — Measure

Five metrics, built on a decade of research.

Grounded in DORA, SPACE, and DX Core 4. Instrumented via GitHub and Slack, so engineers keep working the way they already do. Together they cover delivery, quality, developer experience, AI impact, and business outcomes.

DeliveryGitHub

Diff Throughput

Team-level delivery signal, never individual.

QualityGitHub

Remediation Ratio

Auto-classified by Claude. Rising ratio means quality is slipping.

ExperienceSlack

DX Surveys

Leading indicator for friction, before delivery metrics break.

AI ImpactSlack

AI Adoption

Three questions at CR merge. Hours saved, not tokens counted.

BusinessFinance

Revenue Growth

Engineering output anchored to business outcomes.

Approach — Advise

Senior judgment on the hardest calls.

The measurement shows what's happening. The engagement is where we partner with your leadership on what to do about it: AI adoption, security posture, team structure, architecture.

01

AI Adoption Strategy

Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, agentic tools. Where AI accelerates and where it doesn't.

02

Security Posture

Secrets hygiene, code provenance, shadow AI risk, prompt and agentic data handling.

03

Quality Guardrails

Protecting velocity from silent quality erosion as AI adoption scales.

04

Strategic Advisory

Hiring priorities, team structure, and architecture calls as they surface.

Our Team

The people in the room.

Senior operators with experience in environments from 10 to 1,000 engineers, across VC, PE, and public markets. We shipped first lines of code for multiple startups as well as software used by Fortune 100 companies.

We built Klymb AI because we know what it's like to make scaling decisions without the data you wish you had.

The five-metric system synthesizes a decade of engineering productivity research from DORA, SPACE, and DX Core 4. Our contribution: making it installable for scaleups in 90 days, with an AI impact layer none of the original frameworks anticipated.

Know where AI is actually working. And where it isn't.

90 days from now, you'll have early wins, the evidence behind them, and the muscle to keep going.

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