Feature Spend Attribution | Waydev
Feature Spend Attribution

What did that feature cost in AI?

Attribute AI spend to the initiatives, epics and PRs your teams deliver. Waydev extends Project Costs and Cost Capitalization with the AI line item finance has been missing.

Feature spend · current sprint Sample data
Initiative AI spend AI assisted PRs Delivery cost
Checkout revamp $14.2K 62% 58 down
Payments refactor $11.8K 41% 36 on budget
Mobile onboarding $9.6K 34% 22 watch
Signal: Checkout revamp used the most AI assisted work and has the lowest cost per PR this sprint.
The Problem

Finance capitalizes features. AI spend is still a single overhead line.

No line of sight

AI cost is booked as tooling overhead, so nobody knows which roadmap items consumed it.

Capitalization gets harder

Auditors ask how AI assisted work was classified. Manual time sheets cannot answer.

Roadmap tradeoffs are blind

Product leaders cannot compare the AI cost of two initiatives before committing to one.

What You Get

AI cost, mapped to the work it powered.

01

Initiative level AI cost

Roll AI spend up from PRs and tickets to epics, initiatives and products.

02

AI assisted share

See what percentage of each initiative’s work was AI assisted or agent authored.

03

Cost Capitalization ready

AI cost flows into Waydev’s existing capitalization reports with the same classification rules.

04

Budget versus actual

Set an AI budget per initiative and get a Signal when it drifts.

05

Compare initiatives

Rank roadmap items by delivery cost per PR, with and without AI.

06

Export for finance

Scheduled exports to finance in the format your controllers already use.

How It Works

Live in your stack, not another spreadsheet.

1

Connect your stack

Link Git (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps), Jira, CI/CD and your AI coding tools with read-only access.

2

Waydev maps the work

Every PR, review, ticket and AI session is tied to a team, an initiative and the tool or agent that produced it.

3

Act on Signals

Waydev Agent flags what changed, suggests Goals, and answers follow up questions in plain language.

Waydev reads engineering metadata through read-only APIs. Source code content is never ingested. Visit the Trust Center

FAQ

Questions engineering leaders ask

How is spend attributed to a feature?
Waydev links AI usage to the PRs it touched, and PRs to tickets, epics and initiatives through your ticketing system.
Does this replace Cost Capitalization?
No. It adds AI as a cost input to the Project Costs and Cost Capitalization reports you already use.
What if work is not linked to tickets?
The Hygiene report shows unlinked PRs so teams can fix linking before month end.

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