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State of Product Debt
2026 Report.
Anonymized, aggregated data from diagnostic tools used by engineering leaders. How does your organization compare?
67%
of engineering orgs spend more on maintenance than innovation
$1.2M
average hidden debt discovered per diagnostic engagement
18 mo
average time to Technical Insolvency Date when debt goes unmeasured
What's Inside
- Product Debt Index benchmarks by company stage
- AI cost per useful output across industries
- Engineering allocation: maintenance vs. innovation split
- Revenue per engineer (APER) benchmarks
- Technical Insolvency Date distribution
- Recommendations for each debt severity level
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The 2026 AI Capital Engineering Index
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