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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.

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Know what's working, fix what's not.

30%

Increase in output per
engineer in 90 days

30%

Increase in output per
engineer in 90 days

80%

Reduction in
defect rate

3x

Improvement in AI
usage efficiency

Companies that trust Pensero

Effortless observability
“Pensero gives me daily peace of mind. I know exactly what the team is working on. The built-in reporting & analytics make team observability effortless, and the leaderboards give us the clarity we need for performance reviews and promotions decisions.”
Jose-Luis Vilar
Co-Founder and CPTO
Caravelo
Truly plug
and play
“Pensero gives me a clear, non-engineer’s view of team productivity. It helps me spot champions who adopt new tools fastest and turn their practices into inspiration for the rest of the team. Rather than being a policing tool, it provides a data-driven foundation for bragging rights, better conversations, and benchmarking against peers worldwide. And the best part: it was truly plug-and-play — we were live in just one day.”
Jean-François Legourd
Co-founder
Elfie
Enables
team growth
“Pensero offers a modern approach to performance management by providing real-time, actionable insights and continuous improvement. Its features are designed to enhance clarity, accountability, and productivity within teams. As a manager that helped me have honest and actionable feedback with my teams enabling them for growth.“
Natxo Treig
Sr. Engineering Manager
Perk
Proof over
guessing
"I was being told we were slow to ship, but I didn't have any visibility as to why that was. Pensero is story points after the fact — we go 4x faster. Engineers love it because they get to brag: they can say they're in the top 5 percent globally, based on an independent third party. Pensero is why you want to work here."
Andrew Eye
CEO and Founder
ClosedLoop
Focused team execution
“15 engineers. $50M a year. We didn’t know exactly how our work was different from where we wanted to go. In one view, we can show engineers everything they did… and they learn a lot of insights. Now we went from 70% to 30% maintenance… it’s where we want it to be. It’s like the lighthouse of our engineering team.”
Ignasi Vegas
Co-founder and CEO
Cubbo

Effortless observability
“Pensero gives me daily peace of mind. I know exactly what the team is working on. The built-in reporting & analytics make team observability effortless, and the leaderboards give us the clarity we need for performance reviews and promotions decisions.”
Jose-Luis Vilar
Co-Founder and CPTO
Caravelo
Truly plug
and play
“Pensero gives me a clear, non-engineer’s view of team productivity. It helps me spot champions who adopt new tools fastest and turn their practices into inspiration for the rest of the team. Rather than being a policing tool, it provides a data-driven foundation for bragging rights, better conversations, and benchmarking against peers worldwide. And the best part: it was truly plug-and-play — we were live in just one day.”
Jean-François Legourd
Co-founder
Elfie
Enables
team growth
“Pensero offers a modern approach to performance management by providing real-time, actionable insights and continuous improvement. Its features are designed to enhance clarity, accountability, and productivity within teams. As a manager that helped me have honest and actionable feedback with my teams enabling them for growth.“
Natxo Treig
Sr. Engineering Manager
Perk
Proof over
guessing
"I was being told we were slow to ship, but I didn't have any visibility as to why that was. Pensero is story points after the fact — we go 4x faster. Engineers love it because they get to brag: they can say they're in the top 5 percent globally, based on an independent third party. Pensero is why you want to work here."
Andrew Eye
CEO and Founder
ClosedLoop
Focused team execution
“15 engineers. $50M a year. We didn’t know exactly how our work was different from where we wanted to go. In one view, we can show engineers everything they did… and they learn a lot of insights. Now we went from 70% to 30% maintenance… it’s where we want it to be. It’s like the lighthouse of our engineering team.”
Ignasi Vegas
Co-founder and CEO
Cubbo

Effortless observability
“Pensero gives me daily peace of mind. I know exactly what the team is working on. The built-in reporting & analytics make team observability effortless, and the leaderboards give us the clarity we need for performance reviews and promotions decisions.”
Jose-Luis Vilar
Co-Founder and CPTO
Caravelo
Truly plug
and play
“Pensero gives me a clear, non-engineer’s view of team productivity. It helps me spot champions who adopt new tools fastest and turn their practices into inspiration for the rest of the team. Rather than being a policing tool, it provides a data-driven foundation for bragging rights, better conversations, and benchmarking against peers worldwide. And the best part: it was truly plug-and-play — we were live in just one day.”
Jean-François Legourd
Co-founder
Elfie
Enables
team growth
“Pensero offers a modern approach to performance management by providing real-time, actionable insights and continuous improvement. Its features are designed to enhance clarity, accountability, and productivity within teams. As a manager that helped me have honest and actionable feedback with my teams enabling them for growth.“
Natxo Treig
Sr. Engineering Manager
Perk
Proof over
guessing
"I was being told we were slow to ship, but I didn't have any visibility as to why that was. Pensero is story points after the fact — we go 4x faster. Engineers love it because they get to brag: they can say they're in the top 5 percent globally, based on an independent third party. Pensero is why you want to work here."
Andrew Eye
CEO and Founder
ClosedLoop
Focused team execution
“15 engineers. $50M a year. We didn’t know exactly how our work was different from where we wanted to go. In one view, we can show engineers everything they did… and they learn a lot of insights. Now we went from 70% to 30% maintenance… it’s where we want it to be. It’s like the lighthouse of our engineering team.”
Ignasi Vegas
Co-founder and CEO
Cubbo

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.

SOlution

The platform that proves engineering value and AI impact

Make engineering performance measurable.

Give leaders and engineers objective visibility into contribution, enabling fair, evidence-based 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.

Calibrate performance across teams.

Compare side-by-side any number of groups or cohorts on 11 performance metrics.

Benchmark against real peers.

Rank your engineering organization against all other Pensero customers on 10 performance dimensions.

use cases

A complete 360° view of engineering performance

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Delivery performance

Filter data by team, sprint, or individual to see velocity, cycle time, and throughput in real-time. Identify bottlenecks and optimize resource allocation.

AI impact measurement

Tax deduction and audit

Global team comparison

Delivery performance

Filter data by team, sprint, or individual to see velocity, cycle time, and throughput in real-time. Identify bottlenecks and optimize resource allocation.

AI impact measurement

Tax deduction and audit

Global team comparison

Case STUDIES

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
Dive into the full story
Before Pensero
"We didn’t know exactly how our work was different from where we wanted to go. It was very easy for us to get lost. We wanted to go one way, but the day-to-day was pushing us somewhere else."

After Pensero
"It’s a way to sit with an engineer and show them everything they’ve done, and learn from it."
Ignasi Vegas, CEO and Co-founder, Cubbo
Dive into the full story
Before Pensero
"It was more like a feeling… that person is good or not, but it was definitely not based on fact. Without data, you can make the wrong choice."

After Pensero
"You ensure to motivate and keep the right people… because you know exactly who is doing the job."
Morgan Siffert, CTO and Co-founder, Smeetz
Dive into the full story

Before Pensero
"It was more like a feeling… that person is good or not, but it was definitely not based on fact. Without data, you can make the wrong choice."

After Pensero
"You ensure to motivate and keep the right people… because you know exactly who is doing the job."
Morgan Siffert, CTO
and Co-founder, Smeetz
Dive into the full story
Before Pensero
"We didn’t know exactly how our work was different from where we wanted to go. It was very easy for us to get lost. We wanted to go one way, but the day-to-day was pushing us somewhere else."

After Pensero
"It’s a way to sit with an engineer and show them everything they’ve done, and learn from it."
Ignasi Vegas, CEO
and Co-founder, Cubbo
Dive into the full story

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
Dive into the full story
Before Pensero
"We didn’t know exactly how our work was different from where we wanted to go. It was very easy for us to get lost. We wanted to go one way, but the day-to-day was pushing us somewhere else."

After Pensero
"It’s a way to sit with an engineer and show them everything they’ve done, and learn from it."
Ignasi Vegas, CEO and Co-founder, Cubbo
Dive into the full story
Before Pensero
"It was more like a feeling… that person is good or not, but it was definitely not based on fact. Without data, you can make the wrong choice."

After Pensero
"You ensure to motivate and keep the right people… because you know exactly who is doing the job."
Morgan Siffert, CTO and Co-founder, Smeetz
Dive into the full story

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.

integrations

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.

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WHY US

Why engineering teams choose Pensero

Most tools give you dashboard. Pensero gives you answers. While others track activity, Pensero measures real delivery impact. See how we compare to the tools you're already considering.

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AI structures work into measurable units

Historical activity is ingested automaticall

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Clear visibility into what’s been delivered

Immediate transparency across teams

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What happens

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AI contribution analysis

Execution pattern insights

Outcomes

Bottlenecks become visible

Reviews are grounded in evidence

Early performance drag is detected

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Single source of execution truth

Team-level performance comparison

AI vs human contribution visibility

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Confident promotion and capital decisions

A scalable performance framework

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Measure engineering performance in real-time

30%

Increase in output perengineer in 90 days

30%

Increase in output perengineer in 90 days

80%

Reduction in defect rate

3x

Improvement in AI usage efficiency

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SOlution

use cases

Case STUDIES

integrations

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Increase in output per
engineer in 90 days

Increase in output per
engineer in 90 days

Reduction in
defect rate

Improvement in AI
usage efficiency