Chapter 02

The audit process: we learn your operation

Four weeks. Inputs: interviews, engineering docs, and tooling telemetry. Outputs: adoption baseline, friction heatmap, and rollout plan by team.

Audit Inputs
Interviews
5 stakeholders
  • CE
    CTO/VP Eng
    1x60min · strategic priorities
  • EM
    Engineering Managers
    3x45min · team friction + process
  • SI
    Senior ICs
    4x45min · daily workflow + tools
  • DL
    DX/Platform Lead
    1x60min · tooling + infra
  • S
    Security/IT
    1x45min · AI governance + data exposure
All sessions transcribed and tagged
Documentation
5 sources ingested
  • Tooling inventory
    Current state
  • Engineering playbook / on-call runbook
    Runbook
  • Code review checklist
    Quality policy
  • Onboarding curriculum
    Training
  • AI usage policy
    Governance
Indexed and queryable by agents
Software
8 systems mapped
GH
GitHub
Source
LN
Linear
Tickets
Slack
Communication
NO
Notion
Docs
DD
Datadog
Observability
PD
PagerDuty
Incident
CU
Cursor
IDE
CC
Claude Code
AI coding agent
All systems connected
240
Engineers in audit
18
Workflows analyzed
22%
AI tool adoption baseline
380K
Hours of friction / yr
Automation map
Of 380,000 manual hours / yr
How much we take off your plate
Total identified manual hours, split between what we automate and what stays human
74%
Automatable · 280,440 hrs
99,560 hrs human
Of the 280,440 automatable hours, here’s what each agent contributes
Each bar floats at the running total. Built in priority order, summing to total automated.
0K70K140K210K280K+75KP1AI IDE$9.2M+55KP2Code Search$4.8M+74KP3Code Review$4.2M+36KP4Onboarding$3.6M+40KP5MCP$2.2M280Khrs / yrTOTALAutomated$46M / yr
P1AI IDE Standardization
90% automatable · $9.2M
P2Codebase Search (Greptile)
80% automatable · $4.8M
P3AI Code Review
70% automatable · $4.2M
P4Onboarding Curriculum
60% automatable · $3.6M
P5Internal MCP Servers
65% automatable · $2.2M
Stays human · architecture judgment, mentorship, code ownership99,560 hrs / yr remain manual
Implementation timeline20 weeks · then ongoing
Phase / Workflow
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
W9
W10
W11
W12
W13
W14
W15
W16
W17
W18
W19
W20
Audit
4 weeks
Team interviews
Workflow baseline
Adoption model
Rollout sign-off
Build · workflows shipped in priority order
P1AI IDE Standardization
8w
P2Codebase Search (Greptile)
9w
P3AI Code Review
10w
P4Onboarding Curriculum
8w
P5Internal MCP Servers
6w
Operate
ongoing →
Next: Build Process