Team Comparison
Let's address the elephant first: a page showing per-person engineering metrics can easily become a blame board, and a blame board makes everything worse — people game the numbers, trust erodes, and the metrics stop meaning anything. Team Comparison is deliberately built as the opposite: a coaching view. It surfaces what each person is good at alongside what they could work on, reads everyone against the team's own baseline, and ranks nobody.
The team baseline
The page opens with team-wide averages — average Future Debug Cost, the share of high-risk PRs, and the share of PRs that ship with tests. Individual numbers only mean something relative to this baseline: "average score 38" is meaningless on its own, but "38 on a team that averages 22" is a conversation worth having.
Author cards
Each person's card shows their average and median Future Debug Cost (colored green below the team average, orange above — median matters because one giant refactor PR shouldn't define anyone's month), plus their rates for the most coachable patterns:
- High-risk PRs %
- PRs with tests %
- Multi-intent % — how often their PRs bundle unrelated work
- Refactor + implementation mix %
- Frontend/backend mix %
Cards also call out strengths as green chips ("writes comprehensive tests") and coaching opportunities as amber chips ("tends to mix refactors with features"). The strengths matter as much as the opportunities: knowing who your best testers are tells you who should mentor, whose PRs to hold up as examples, and how to pair.
Using it without breaking it
A pattern that works: in a one-on-one, look at one amber chip together and talk about the habit behind it — "what if we split the refactor out next time?" — rather than the number. The patterns here (bundling intents, skipping tests) are habits, and habits respond to specific, friendly feedback.
What doesn't work: reading this page in a group setting as a ranking. The moment it becomes a scoreboard, people optimize the score instead of the work — and the data quietly stops being true.
Availability
Team Comparison is included on Pro and Business plans. See Plans & billing.