CodeDelta saves you money by making a difference!

Engineering is your company's biggest discretionary spend, and it's the only major expenditure where the budget holder cannot see precisely what happened. Ask what engineering did last quarter and the answer comes back as story points, tickets, or a feeling.

Figures from paper C and paper D — 136 codebases, 393M statements; every number below is reproducible from the papers.

1 in 6changed statements in a mature, hand-maintained codebase is a repair — edited where it stands. The largest codebases run one in ten to one in twenty.

The waste line: "you paid for this twice."

Some of every quarter's work replaces work already paid for once. A measured share of that is health — repair is what maintenance looks like — but the dial has bands, and a reading far off the bands is news.

THE REWORK BANDS →

1 in 500statements repaired in a heavily agent-built codebase — code that grows fast and is repaired by nobody.

The risk line: "this keeps being redone — why?"

A module that churns period after period is either where the business is, or a design fault that has been quietly billing you for years. Either way it was invisible until it was measured.

THE MEASUREMENT →

$8Ma forty-engineer organisation, fully loaded at $200,000 a head. Arithmetic, offered as an illustration — the measured figures are the cited ones.

The governance line: "why was that touched at all?"

Suppose a quarter of the year's repair work lands in one payments module. Nobody could see it being spent. And every business has code it regards as settled — a change ledger is the only instrument that reports those systems were touched at all.

WHAT IT MEASURES →

2 pagesthe financial justification — the case, the measured bands, the worked example, and every way to deploy it.

Take it to the budget review.

Written to be forwarded to whoever pays for the code. How CodeDelta can save you time and money, with the numbers cited to their papers.

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43.5Mlines of Chromium churn-compared in a single scan, on one laptop. Scale is not your problem.

Deploying CodeDelta to make a difference.

The GitHub Action writes a ledger entry on every pull request. Everywhere else, the Docker image and plain binary drop into GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes or any self-hosted runner. No upload, no SaaS — your code never leaves your network.

CLI / CI SETUP →

The rework bands and the agent-built measurement are documented in paper C and paper D, with method and reproduction hashes; the Chromium scan in the Chromium paper. The $8M scenario is declared arithmetic, not a measurement.