For engineering organisations with 200+ developers and coding AI already deployed

Prove whether faster coding is becoming faster delivery.

A fixed-scope 4-week AI Delivery System Audit for organisations already using Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or internal coding agents. See whether AI is reducing cycle time, or just increasing PR review load, governance risk, and spend.

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Led a 7,000-engineer Copilot rollout
Fortune 100 production experience
AI-SDLC governance and measurement
Validation available under NDA
The conversion problem inside AI coding rollouts

Adoption is visible. The delivery drag is usually hidden.

Most AI coding programmes measure seats, usage, and code output. The expensive problems sit between code generation and production.

Review Economics

Senior reviewers become the bottleneck.

AI increases PR volume and surface area. Review queues grow, senior engineers carry hidden workload, and lead time stays flat.

Governance Exposure

Generated code outruns controls.

Policy, secure usage, data handling, and code-quality gates are often less mature than the AI-assisted workflows already in use.

Cost Waste

Inference spend scales without attribution.

Large contexts, model mismatch, agent loops, and unowned experimentation quietly consume budget before anyone sees the quarterly bill.

Why now

Seat adoption is no longer enough.

Leadership is being asked harder questions before renewals, procurement reviews, customer due diligence, and board-level scrutiny.

  • Did delivery actually improve, or did code output simply increase?
  • Are senior reviewers carrying hidden workload created by AI-assisted PRs?
  • Is governance strong enough for regulated buyers, auditors, and legal teams?
  • Are you paying for real engineering leverage, or more generated output?
The front-end offer

The AI Delivery System Audit

A 4-week fixed-scope AI-SDLC diagnostic for engineering organisations already using AI coding tools. The output is a board- and engineering-ready decision pack, not a generic AI strategy deck, DevOps maturity assessment, or cloud transformation programme.

PriceFrom £18,000
Duration4 weeks
FormatAsync-first
ScopeFixed
Best fit200+ engineers
Output30/90-day decision pack
Executive summaryCTO / VP Engineering version of the evidence, risks, and recommended decisions.
Review bottleneck mapLead-time and PR-flow analysis showing where AI-created work gets stuck.
Governance gap registerPolicy, security, data handling, quality gate, and auditability gaps.
Inference waste snapshotModel routing, context size, agent loop, and tooling cost opportunities.
30/90-day roadmapPrioritised actions across delivery, governance, security, and cost.
Scale / fix / stop recommendationA clear decision view for renewals, rollout expansion, or remediation.
From £18,000 fixed scope · 4 weeks. Final fee varies only with organisation scale and data-source complexity. Week 2 progress check: if no quantified findings are emerging by the end of Week 2, you can stop the audit and only pay for time invested.
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Sample findings

What the output looks like.

These are representative examples of the type of evidence the audit surfaces. Client-specific findings are redacted or validated under NDA.

AI Delivery System Audit / Redacted Decision-Pack Excerpt
Bottleneck map and scale / fix / stop recommendation
Redacted
Finding
AI-assisted PRs are larger than team norms and waiting on the same senior reviewer pool.
Fix
Impact
Developer output increased, but AI-to-production cycle time stayed flat because review capacity did not change.
Stop
Governance
Acceptable-use policy exists, but provenance checks and AI-specific review standards are inconsistent.
Fix
Decision
Scale usage only after reviewer routing, PR sizing, and AI-ready quality gates are standardised.
Scale
Delivery

AI-assisted PR volume up, review completion flat.

Usage dashboards showed strong adoption. Flow analysis showed the bottleneck had moved to senior review capacity, with larger AI-assisted PRs increasing queue depth.

Decision supported: change review policy, PR sizing, and ownership before expanding licences.

Governance

Secure usage policy existed, but quality gates did not enforce it.

Teams had guidance for AI-assisted coding, but delivery controls, dependency scanning, and reviewer expectations were inconsistent across repositories.

Decision supported: standardise AI-ready delivery controls before regulated customer due diligence.

Cost

Inference spend was owned centrally, not by workload.

Agent experiments, oversized context windows, and model mismatch made cost hard to attribute. Finance saw a bill; engineering lacked task-level accountability.

Decision supported: introduce routing, caching, and cost attribution before budget review.

Leadership

The ROI story was not defensible enough for renewal.

Developers felt faster, but the evidence did not connect adoption to delivery outcomes. The audit reframed the renewal conversation around retained value.

Decision supported: continue, expand, constrain, or redesign the AI coding programme with evidence.

Low-burden process

Four weeks. Defined inputs. Clear outputs.

The audit is designed for busy engineering leaders. Most work is async, tool-agnostic, and based on existing delivery data.

Week 1

Baseline

Map tooling, DORA signals, PR flow, AI usage, team structure, and current governance posture.

Week 2

Bottleneck analysis

Identify where AI adds velocity into constrained review, testing, release, or security systems.

Week 3

Governance and cost

Review policy, controls, model selection, context usage, agent loops, and spend attribution.

Week 4

Decision pack

Deliver executive summary, evidence, roadmap, and scale / fix / stop recommendations.

Good fit

  • 200+ engineer organisation with AI coding tools already deployed or expanding.
  • Delivery metrics have not improved as much as adoption or code-output metrics suggest.
  • Leadership needs evidence before licence renewal, board reporting, audit, or customer due diligence.
  • Engineering, AI programme, security, or finance teams see tool sprawl, review drag, governance gaps, or spend opacity.

Not a fit

  • You are looking for generic AI training or prompt workshops.
  • You have not deployed AI coding tools and only need a vendor selection exercise.
  • You want cloud migration, managed DevOps, open-ended retainers, or implementation before diagnosis.
  • You cannot provide any delivery, review, tooling, governance, or cost context.
Objections

Questions that usually block the first conversation.

We already use Copilot or Cursor. Why do we need this?

This audit is not about whether developers like the tool. It checks whether AI-assisted coding is improving the delivery system: PR flow, review economics, quality controls, governance, and measurable throughput to production.

We already track DORA metrics. How is this different?

DORA shows delivery outcomes. This audit connects those outcomes to AI adoption, review load, governance controls, and cost attribution so leaders can decide whether to scale, fix, or stop parts of the rollout.

Do you need source-code access?

No by default. The audit works from delivery metadata, workflow data, PR/review patterns, AI-tool telemetry where available, governance artefacts, and stakeholder interviews. Source-code access is not required unless explicitly agreed.

Can you validate enterprise experience?

Yes. Public claims are intentionally conservative because much of the relevant work was done inside large enterprise environments. Validation is available under NDA where appropriate.

What happens after the fit review?

If there is a fit, we agree scope, data access, stakeholders, and timeline. The audit runs for four weeks and ends with a board-ready decision pack and practical roadmap.

Who is this not for?

It is not for teams still debating whether to try coding AI, organisations looking for generic DevOps consulting, or companies that only want tool training. It is designed for engineering leaders who already have coding AI in use and need evidence about delivery impact.

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