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AI-attributed work
41%
of merged changes
Cost per delivered change
$55
▼ 9% vs. baseline
Escaped defects on AI changes
-24%
as AI share rises
Milestones in forecast
82%
committed vs. landed
AI Impact Agent
Platform team spend up 31% this quarter while delivered change held flat. Reallocation recommended before renewal.
* Figures shown are illustrative examples of the metrics TargetBoard produces from your data.
Connected across the AI stack your teams already run on
Why Now

Adoption Is Solved. The Operating Model Has Not Caught Up.

Teams already work with AI daily. The management system around them still assumes human-only work, annual planning cycles, and quarterly reviews.

01

The Work Is Mixed. The Management Is Not.

Humans and agents now produce change side by side, but capacity models, baselines, and reviews are still built on human-only throughput.

02

Decisions Arrive After the Damage

AI raised the speed of change without raising the speed of management. Quality, cost, and planning issues still surface at quarter close rather than in-sprint.

03

Ungoverned AI Compounds Quietly

Velocity holds while churn, ownership gaps, and code-base inflation accumulate. Spend moves monthly while governance stays annual.

What You Manage It By

Productivity, Quality, Cost, Delivery

Run an AI-assisted organization on. TargetBoard measures each against a team's own baseline, not a generic industry benchmark, and shows which way AI is moving them.

Productivity
+18%

throughput per engineer on AI-assisted teams, measured against their own baseline

Quality
+25%

escaped defect rate as AI share rises, with churn and rework tracked per source

Cost
$55

blended cost per delivered change, tool and agent spend included

Delivery
82%

of committed milestones landing inside the forecast window

* Figures shown are illustrative examples of the metrics TargetBoard produces from your data.
How the Management Loop Works

From Tool Telemetry to a Decision Someone Owns

Four steps between AI tool telemetry and a decision a leader can act on the same week.

1
Attribute the work

AI-generated commits, pull requests, and agent runs are identified per activity, team, tool, and model.

2
Compare against the baseline

Cycle time, rework, defects, and predictability against each team's own pre-adoption baseline.

3
Price the change

Token, licence, and agent spend allocated to the work it produced.

4
Govern by exception

Material shifts arrive as alerts with an owner attached, on a single definition shared by all.

AI Analyst
Grounded in your operational data
NEW
Which team is using their Claude budget most efficiently?
Cloud, then Integration, measured by delivered output against token consumption.
Team Cost per delivered change
Cloud $38
Integration $46
Platform $91
The Platform team's budget went up. Is it creating any business value?
No improvement in quality, velocity, throughput, or customer activity on their product. Would you like to dig deeper?
Show the trend Compare to baseline Alert me monthly
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The AI Impact Agent

Management That Runs Between Reviews

A domain-expert agent watches adoption, spend, and outcome signals continuously, and raises only what is material: spend outrunning delivered change, quality slipping on AI-generated code, adoption sitting where it moves nothing.

AI adoption trends AI impact on velocity Token usage and ROI Agent governance
Raised this week 4 signals
Spend rising faster than delivered change
Platform team · agent spend up 31%, throughput flat
High
AI-generated churn without code owners
Checkout · rework share up 12 pts over three sprints
Medium
Adoption holding, quality holding
Core · AI share 47% with defect rate unchanged
Positive
Licences idle ahead of renewal
Two squads below 20% utilization for 60 days
Watch
Built for the People Accountable

One Layer, Three Different Decisions

Head of AI Transformation

A programme-level read on where adoption converts and where it stalls, with agent governance and a spend allocation you can defend at renewal.

CTOs & VP of Engineering

Cycle time, review load, and defect trends per team, showing where AI-assisted work helps and where it quietly adds rework.

VP Product Delivery & TPM

Whether faster development is reaching committed dates, and which programmes carry the risk once AI-assisted scope enters the plan.

FAQs

Questions AI Mature Leaders Ask First

How is AI-attributed work identified?

TargetBoard reads telemetry from AI-enabled developer tools and agent platforms alongside your SCM and work-tracking systems, then attributes commits, pull requests, and automated workflows at the change level. Attribution rules are configurable per tool and per team.

Token, licence, and agent spend is allocated to the work it produced, then divided by delivered change to give a blended cost per change by team and vendor. The definition is fixed in the semantic layer, so Engineering and Finance report the same number.

Adoption dashboards report usage. TargetBoard is a management layer: it connects usage to productivity, quality, cost, and delivery against each team’s own baseline, then raises the cases where adoption is high and impact is not, with an owner attached.

Escaped defects, rework, churn, and ownership gaps are tracked per source, so AI-generated changes are visible separately from human ones. Where quality moves against adoption, the agent raises it with the teams and repositories named.

Historical data from your connected systems is used to establish baselines, so first measurement typically arrives within the first weeks rather than after a quarter of collection.

See How Your AI-Assisted Organization Is Actually Running

A 30-minute call, walked through your own systems: where AI is moving productivity, quality, cost, and delivery today, and where it is not yet being managed.

A baseline read on adoption, cost, and outcome by team
The KPI definitions your leadership review would run on
Where governance is missing across agents and tools

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