Quantify the
Hidden Debt.
AI-powered forensic audit for engineering insolvency. Paste your backlog and see where your capital is bleeding.
Why Standard Technical Debt Calculators Fail
Most engineering metrics are vanity signals. Counting "cyclomatic complexity" or "TODO comments" does not tell a CFO whether to approve a budget. The Product Debt Index™ (PDI) is different. It is a forensic accounting tool that converts "bad code" into "wasted salary dollars."
When your PDI drops below 50, you have crossed the Insolvency Threshold. You are no longer a software company; you are a digital nursing home. You are paying senior engineer salaries to change bedpans (maintenance) instead of building skyscrapers (growth).
The "Compound Interest" of Bad Code
Technical debt is financial debt with variable interest rates. A "quick hack" to ship a feature for Q3 earnings is a loan taken out against Q4 velocity. If you do not pay down the principal (refactoring), the interest payments (maintenance work) will eventually consume 100% of your available capacity. This calculator quantifies that interest payment in real-time.
CapEx vs. OpEx Trap
Private Equity firms love this metric. They use it to detect if an engineering team is capitalizing expenses (claiming maintenance work as "R&D") to inflate EBITDA. The PDI exposes the truth: are you building assets, or just servicing liabilities?