Insights Review30 minyour data
Your team isn't slow. Now you can prove it.
Delivery slows down while work sits waiting for review, QA, and release. DevStats shows exactly where, so you can fix the process instead of pushing your people, with numbers from your own repos that hold up with anyone who asks.
No credit cardNo quote30 minutes
- SOC 2 Type II
- Team-level by design
- Progress
- 1d 2h
- 16%
- Review
- 2d 6h
- 34% · waiting
- QA
- 1d 14h
- 24% · waiting
- Release
- 18h
- 12% · waiting
- Deploy
- 22h
- 14%
Waiting between stages 4d 14h · 70% of cycle time
"DevStats is one of these tools that you think you don't need, but it's just so easy to use and gives so many insightful details that you might be missing."
01 —What DevStats is
DevStats offers enhanced engineering metrics that help you protect your teams instead of ranking them
02 —The situation
Every team reports numbers. Engineering reports a story
You know your team, who’s working hard, and where the friction is, but "trust me" only goes so far when R&D is one of the biggest lines in the budget.
03 —The follow-up
And the story breaks at the first follow-up question
Tuesday
Why is the billing release slipping again? Isn't AI supposed to make us 10× faster?
The team is moving fast. Reviews and QA are backed up.
Backed up how much? And when does it ship?
04 —The cost
Every unanswered question costs you twice
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UP
Engineering starts to look like the least accountable team in the company. The questions come more often and get sharper.
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DOWN
You push for visible speed to buy time. Your team feels the pressure and knows it's aimed at the wrong thing.
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NEXT
The real delay never gets fixed. The next release slips for the same reason the last one did.
You end up defending your team with nothing but your word.
05 —The usual fixes
You've tried the usual fixes
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Story pointsEasy to game. Nobody trusts them past the first question. -
SpreadsheetsA night of exports and formulas, and stale by next week. -
Enterprise platformsMonths of back-and-forth. You need answers this quarter. -
Tools that rank engineersOne leaderboard, and your team stops trusting the numbers for good.
06 —How it works
Your team isn't slow. The work is waiting
Coding takes hours. Shipping takes weeks. The gap sits between stages where PRs wait for review, reviews wait for merge, and merges wait for release.
01 · Where the time goes
See cycle time broken into stages.
Point to the stage where work waits, then fix the handoff: review ownership, QA capacity, release cadence. That's a process change, not a performance review.
Fix the handoffReview wait shows up as a stage, not a feeling. Rotate ownership, cap PR size, and watch the stage shrink.
02 · Where the effort goes
Measure your engineering investment
See how much engineering time goes to new things, improvements, and keeping the lights on. When KTLO eats the roadmap, you can name it, size it, and change it before the next planning cycle.
Fix the mixWhen keep-the-lights-on crowds out new things, Engineering Investment gives you the number to renegotiate the roadmap.
03 · How you compare
A clear bar for every metric.
Benchmark bands show which numbers are a real problem and which are normal for a team your size, so you fix what matters first and leave the rest alone.
Fix the queueQA and release waits are capacity and cadence problems. Benchmarks tell you which one is out of range for your size.
- New Things42%
- Improve Things27%
- Keep the Lights On (KTLO)19%
- Productivity (not customer visible)12%
- Issue cycle time6d 14h Needs focus
- Review wait2d 6h Needs focus
- QA wait1d 14h Fair
- Deploy frequency7 / wk Strong
- PR size184 lines Elite
Every one of these is a process fix. None of them is “code faster.”
No credit cardYour own numbersYour first process fix
07 —Built for the team, not against it
Numbers that protect your team
Most engineering metrics tools sell leaders visibility into their engineers. DevStats gives you evidence to defend them.
- Team and flow views come first. You see how work moves through the process, and where the process breaks.
- Individual views support 1:1 prep and help unblock someone who's stuck.
- No leaderboards or vanity metrics. Get the full picture of what’s happening.
| Squad | PRs / wk | Cycle time | Aging >7d |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | 11 | 6d 14h | 9 |
| Payments | 14 | 4d 2h | 4 |
| Mobile | 9 | 3d 9h | 2 |
| Data | 17 | 1d 20h | 1 |
4 squads · 31 players · individual views open from 1:1 prep
08 —Same mechanism · new question
Is the latest frontier AI model actually making you faster?
Your team is paying for Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or whatever launched last month. Developer estimates can't tell you whether it worked. Delivery numbers can.
6d 11havg after switch · 6d 12h before
DevStats tracks delivery metrics against the tools and models your team adopts, so you can see what changed after each switch, and what didn't because the process didn't.
- After model switch
- −1h−1hcycle time
- After review fix
- −2d 3h−2d 3hcycle time
AI makes a good process faster.
It can't fix a broken one.
09 —Setup and security
Get set up in hours. No sprint required
Connect your git provider and issue tracker, invite a few teammates, and your first numbers appear within hours.
Connect
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Security
SOC 2 Type II
Encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256).
Reads
PR, commit, and ticket metadata
- Read-only access
- We never see your source code
- Team-level by design
10 —Pricing
$27 per active contributor. No bait-and-switch pricing
- Published price, no request-a-quote call
- Inactive developers aren't billed
- No usage credits
- 14-day free trial, no credit card. Month-to-month after that.
Published price
$27 per active contributor / month
On GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps? LinearB charges $59 per user per month on Enterprise. DevStats is $27.
11 —Questions
What engineering leaders ask before booking
Do I have to connect our tools before the call?
No. If you connect first, the review runs on your own numbers. If you don't, we'll connect them together on the call.
Will my team feel watched?
DevStats leads with team and flow views, so the numbers point at the process. Individual views are for 1:1s and for unblocking someone who's stuck. There are no leaderboards or rankings.
What data does DevStats read? Does it read our code?
[CONFIRM: plain-language answer on data access]. DevStats is SOC 2 Type II certified.
How long does setup take?
[CONFIRM: realistic time from signup to first numbers]
Which tools do you support?
[CONFIRM: full list of git providers and issue trackers]
Can DevStats show whether our AI tools are paying off?
[CONFIRM: what AI and model tracking shows]
How does pricing work?
It’s $27 per active contributor per month. We don't bill developers who aren't active. No usage credits or request-a-quote steps.
What's included in the trial?
14 days of the full Pro plan with no credit card.
Is the Insights Review a sales call?
It's a review of your numbers. You leave with your cycle-time breakdown, your benchmark read, and what to fix first.
12 —Book your Insights Review
See your own numbers in 30 minutes
No credit cardNo quoteSOC 2 Type II
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01 · Book a time
Pick a 30-minute slot in the next few days.
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02 · Set up your trial
We'll email three optional steps. Start the free trial, connect your tools, and invite a few teammates. Or do it together on the call.
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03 · Review your numbers
Walk through your cycle time, your investment mix, and the first process fix to make.
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You leave with
Your cycle-time breakdown, a read on where you stand against teams your size, and the first process fix to make.