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How Top Engineering Teams Actually Perform

A live index of the industry's high-performing engineering orgs.

Act 1 · Performance

The 500 0SS Performance Index

Updated Jul 24, 2026

2.5x faster vs pre-AI baseline

(2.1 ETV / dev / mo)

2.5x · The 500 OSS Performance Index
the average to match
7.0x · OpenAI
fastest org
Falling behind
Index pace
Pulling away
< 1x · below baseline
1–4x · the 500 average
4x+ · amazing
0x1x2x4x6x8x
higher is better

Baseline = 500 OSS Performance Index at its Q1 2025 (pre-AI) level. Performance is measured through the lens of a Senior Engineer.

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Here is how fast they got there.

Engineering performance

Commits are measured by depth, not lines. Reported in ETV (Engineering Throughput Value).

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What companies are pulling away?

Speed is necessary, not sufficient.

Act 2 · Direction

Faster at what?

The same speed can ship features or rework what AI just broke.

Performance Composition

Growth, Maintenance, Fixes, as a share of performance.

Act 3 · AI Cost

What did the performance gain cost?

The gains are measured in ETV, so the cost is the tokens you spend to land one ETV in production.

AI tools Cost to ship one ETV

Efficient≤ $250per ETV in productionTarget
Average$250–450per ETV in production
Wasteful$450+per ETV in production

These numbers are for enterprise level pricing.

Act 4 · Roadmap Alignment

Is any of it on the roadmap?

Your team is shipping. You cannot see how much of it the business actually asked for.

Healthy line

75%

of your ETV should map to a declared roadmap item. Below that line, you're shipping fast in directions nobody asked for.

What that looks like

On the roadmap75%+

Strategy is operational. Most engineering moves a stated goal forward.

Drifting50–75%

Half pointed at the roadmap, half drifting. Common, and fixable.

Off the roadmap< 50%

Most engineering doesn't match what leadership actually planned.

Low alignment is a process problem, not a people problem.

Act 5 · Patterns

Which repositories are pulling weight?

Top repositories by per-developer ETV. This week's momentum and the full quarter, side by side.