Pipeline velocity · flow diagnostics

AI tools write code instantly. We unblock your entire delivery pipeline.

The bottleneck has shifted. Vague requirements upstream. Jammed PR queues downstream. We diagnose and fix the entire value stream.

30%

baseline velocity gain

3 weeks

to first diagnostic

30 yrs

enterprise transformation
01 / Telemetry

The leaks are measurable.

Real signals from real value streams. This is what a jammed pipeline looks like before we touch it.

Review Time by PR Type

The wait is the bottleneck, not the review

once review starts
23%
AI-assisted, faster
1.0×
Unassisted
1.5×
Agentic
Review wait
Ticket idle
Code gen
AI-assisted
0.77×
Unassisted
1.0×
Agentic
1.5×
Source: LinearB 2026 Report

The Paradox

More code, more churn

WASTE OUTPACES
Code churn↑9.4x
Dev output↑4.2x
Source: GitClear, Jan 2026

Over 2× lower merge rate

AI PRs stall before landing

MERGE GATE BLOCKED
1,043
additions across 37 files
Manual PRs
84.4%
AI-generated PRs
32.7%
Source: LinearB 2026 Report

Duplicate code clones

4.1×
vs. developers not using AI

Wait to get picked up

5.25×
longer
quarter over quarter
Agentic AI PRs, LinearB 2026

2.6× larger pull requests

83% waitingAI-assisted
Bigger, harder-to-review changes — not just faster-written ones.
Unassisted
1.0×
AI-assisted
2.6×
Source: LinearB 2026 Report
02 / Advisory architecture

A three-phase, 4.5-month engagement.

Diagnose the stream. Calibrate the flow. Institutionalize the cadence. Each phase ships working artifacts, not advice.

THE DIAGNOSTIC · 3 WEEKS.

The Diagnostic

$22,000 (flat rate)

Direct, read-only Git/Jira pull — no vendor tool, no IT/security wait. Flow Sessions, Intent Mapping & Dependency Sessions — structured team conversations, not disruptive interviews. Week 3 Executive Showcase — benchmark scorecard and ROI case, built on 2026 industry data

FLOW ENGINEERING · PHASE 1 · 10 WEEKS.

Flow Engineering – Phase 1

$50k – $60k (scales with org size)

Risk-based PR routing by AI-authorship type — a team agreement enforced through tools you already own, no new vendor required. AI-First Definition of Ready + Context Packages — rolled out org-wide, not just piloted. Lean Team Metrics Review and cross-team dependency mapping. All changes piloted before rollout.

FLOW ENGINEERING · PHASE 2 · 7 WEEKS.

Flow Engineering – Phase 2

$28K – $30K (scales with org size)

Continuous Planning replaces Sprint Planning and Backlog Refinement, anchored by a lightweight Queue Replenishment sync. Standups compressed and directed to where collaboration occurs. Pilot teams run the new cadence live before the RFC closes.

Stage 4 - Months 7–12

Enterprise Rollout

$75,500

Dependency Triage Workshop (up to 300 developers); org-wide dashboards; transition into standard post-rollout retainer

30%
Faster review cycles — mid-Cursor rollout, enterprise SaaS engineering org
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23–25%
faster cycle time — fixing the AI-era handoff between product and engineering
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55% -> 95%
sprint delivery reliability — 27 teams, moved off Scrum
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3mo → +1mo
months behind schedule → delivered 1 month early — the largest project in company history
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04 / Pedigree

Led by Ian

A 30-year Pacific Northwest veteran who piloted transformations at Microsoft, Adobe, Salesforce, and REI.

No pyramid of juniors. No account manager relaying messages. You work directly with the architect who has untangled delivery pipelines at some of the most demanding engineering orgs in the industry — and knows exactly where flow goes to die.

MicrosoftAdobeSalesforceREI
One senior architect · fixed scope

Find your bottleneck in 3 weeks.

One fixed-scope diagnostic. A map of exactly where your delivery pipeline is leaking velocity — and the policy to fix it.