Measure engineering performance in real-time.
Pensero analyzes engineering activity across your tech stack to generate AI-powered insights on contribution, productivity, and delivery. Grounded in evidence, not perception.
Know what's working, fix what's not.
30%
Increase in output
per engineer in 90 days.
50%
Reduction in performance improvement plans.
50 Hours
Saved per manager
every month.
Companies that trust Pensero.
Real stories, real trust.
The Problem
You're making million-dollar engineering decisions without data.
Engineering is one of the largest expense on your P&L, yet visibility into how it creates value is limited. As a result, capital allocation, promotions, AI investments, and hiring decisions often rely on perception rather than measurable performance data.
Traditional metrics fail to reflect true performance
Most engineering tools measure activity, not performance. Lines of code, PR counts, and story points inflate output but ignore quality, collaboration, and long-term system health.
No clear way to measure the impact of AI tools
Companies spend heavily on tools like Copilot or Cursor without knowing whether AI improves productivity, justifies cost, or delivers measurable engineering value.
Performance reviews rely on anecdotes, not data
Performance reviews often rely on perception, recency bias, and subjective judgment. Engineers feel unfairly evaluated, creating internal tension and politics.
Distributed teams amplify perception bias
Without daily visibility, leaders struggle to evaluate performance fairly. Remote and offshore teams amplify perception bias when decisions lack objective data.
Performance tracking is manual and time consuming
Managers often spend dozens of hours each month digging through code and tickets to evaluate engineers instead of focusing on coaching, strategy, and delivery.
Hard to calculate R&D tax deductions
Section 174 turned engineering classification into a financial issue. R&D capitalization directly affects EBITDA, tax exposure, and audit risk.
Why integrations matter
Go beyond code: Understanding your performance requires a 360º assessment.
Pensero connects your entire delivery ecosystem and transforms fragmented activity into structured, comparable execution signals.
What Pensero delivers
The platform that proves engineering value and AI impact.
Make engineering performance measurable.
Give leaders and engineers objective visibility into contribution, enabling fair and evidence-based performance discussions.
Learn if AI is improving performance.
Track how AI-assisted development affects delivery speed, code quality, and team productivity.
Quantify the hidden tax of technical debt.
Discover how rework, defects, and maintenance effort reduce engineering capacity and delay feature delivery.
Promote transparent conversations.
Identify top-performing teams and detect early performance shifts using real delivery data.
Maximize R&D tax deductions with clear documentation.
Automatically classify engineering work for R&D capitalization using real development activity data.
Ensure engineering works on what actually matters.
Quantify delivery alignment with roadmap priorities and make engineering investment decisions data-driven.
Why Pensero
Loved by executives.
Trusted by managers and employees.
Understand outcomes, not outputs.
Measure quality, delivery, and collaboration to reveal meaningful engineering contributions.
Identify human and AI contributions.
See how human work and AI tools together influence delivery, quality, and productivity.
Build transparency into performance conversations.
Give engineers and managers shared, objective insights to enable fair discussions.
Before Pensero
"If you wanted to know how sales was doing, I could show you pipeline. If you wanted to know how marketing was doing, I could show you conversion rates. But when it came to engineering, I couldn't tell you if we were going faster or slower than before."
After Pensero
"Pensero is story points after the fact. With Pensero we go 4x faster."
Andrew Eye, CEO and Founder, ClosedLoop
How it works
Get started in minutes.
See insights in hours.
1 Hour
Connect your stack and see months of performance data.
What happens
Connect GitHub, Jira, Slack in minutes
AI structures work into measurable units
Historical activity is ingested automaticall
Outcomes
A unified view of engineering work
Clear visibility into what’s been delivered
Immediate transparency across teams
1 Day
Identify what’s driving delivery and what’s slowing it down.
What happens
Delivery vs roadmap visibility
AI contribution analysis
Execution pattern insights
Outcomes
Bottlenecks become visible
Reviews are grounded in evidence
Early performance drag is detected
1 Week
Make engineering decisions with objective performance data.
What happens
Single source of execution truth
Team-level performance comparison
AI vs human contribution visibility
Outcomes
Board-ready reporting
Confident promotion and capital decisions
A scalable performance framework
No excuses on price
We fit your needs.
Starter
Free
1 code repository
Delivery metrics
Quality metrics
AI Impact tracking
Engineering investment tracking
Team and individual reports
90-day data retention
Growth
$50
/ seat / month
Unlimited users
Unlimited code repositories
Everything in Starter
SSO / SAML and directory sync
API/MCP access
1-year data retention
Enterprise
Custom
Everything in Growth
R&D capitalization
On-prem and custom integrations
Dedicated CSM and priority support
Custom onboarding and training
Get months of engineering performance data now.
Stop making engineering decisions based on gut feel and anecdotes. Connect your tools in minutes and get 90 days of objective performance data.
