You Have No Idea How Much Money You're Wasting. InteliG Does.

TLDR: Most companies can’t tell you what last month’s engineering spend actually produced. InteliG connects every commit to cost and strategy, so you can see exactly where money is creating value and where it’s being burned on rework, misalignment, and invisible waste. If you can’t explain engineering ROI, you don’t have it.

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Engineering is your biggest spend. And it’s a black box.

The Problem

Most companies guess what engineering costs them. They track:

Headcount
Salaries
Maybe some vague “velocity” metric

But they can’t answer:

What did last month’s engineering spend actually produce?
Which developers are costing money vs creating value?
What initiatives are burning budget with no ROI?
Where is time being wasted?

If you can’t explain engineering ROI, you don’t have it.

Why This Exists

Engineering feels expensive because you can’t see the waste.

Millions burned with no clear outcome. Your board asks “what did we get for $2M in Q1?” and the best answer is a list of features nobody tied to revenue.
Teams shipping activity instead of results. Commits are up, PRs are merging, velocity looks great on paper. But the initiative that matters? Three commits in 21 days.
Rework hidden inside “normal” delivery cycles. Nobody tracks the cost of rebuilding something that was built wrong because the requirements were trapped in a Slack thread.
No connection between cost and impact. You can tell the board what engineering costs. You cannot tell them what engineering returned.

Every other department solved this years ago. Sales has CRM. Marketing has attribution. Finance has P&L. Engineering has… Jira? A standup?

What InteliG Shows

InteliG connects what no other tool connects:

Strategy to Execution

Every initiative you declare gets tracked through code — not tickets. Commits link to strategy automatically. You see what’s progressing, what’s stalled, and what’s being ignored. No board updates. No status meetings. The code tells the story.

Code to Cost

Every developer has a cost. Every commit has a contributor. InteliG maps contribution to compensation and gives you ROI grades — A through F — per developer, per team, per initiative. Not to punish people. To understand where your investment is working.

Decisions to Outcomes

Meeting decisions get extracted and linked to the code they produce. When someone says “we decided to prioritize X” in a sprint planning call, InteliG tracks whether X actually happened in the codebase. Accountability without micromanagement.

When you can finally see reality:

Inefficiency can’t hide
Excuses collapse
Performance becomes measurable
The shadow org chart becomes visible

The Real Numbers

Here’s what CTOs find when they connect InteliG:

30-40% of engineering effort goes to work that doesn’t map to any declared initiative
The highest-paid developer is rarely the highest contributor
Rework rates are 2-3x what teams self-report
Knowledge from meetings has a half-life of about 48 hours before it’s lost

These aren’t hypotheticals. This is what the data shows when you actually look at it.

Who This Is For

CTOs who want to prove ROI to the board — with evidence, not anecdotes
VPs of Engineering who suspect their org has a visibility problem but can’t quantify it
CFOs who want to understand engineering spend the way they understand every other department
PE firms auditing portfolio companies and finding engineering is the biggest line item with the least accountability
Anyone tired of guessing what engineering costs and what it produces

The One-Liner

You’re paying for engineering. You just don’t know what you’re getting back.

InteliG does.

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