AI Spend & Return

What this round asks

1. 1.
   How many FTE did your company employ last full calendar month?Total FTE · FTE · definition
2. 2.
   How many of those worked in engineering, including QA, data and devops?Engineering FTE · FTE · definition
3. 3.
   What was your total AI spend last full calendar month, in EUR?Monthly AI spend · EUR / month · definition
4. 4.
   How much of that went to AI running inside your product, rather than internal tooling?Product AI spend · EUR / month · definition
5. 5.
   What is the most one developer may spend on AI tools per month, in EUR? Enter 0 if there is no limit.AI spend cap per developer · EUR / month · definition
6. 6.
   How was your AI budget for the coming year arrived at?
7. 7.
   Where does AI spend sit in your P&L?
8. 8.
   What is your policy on AI tools staff buy themselves?
9. 9.
   Do you measure the productivity gain from AI in engineering?
10. 10.
    How much time do you reckon AI saves per engineer, as a percentage?Claimed time saving per engineer · % · definition
11. 11.
    What share of the code you merged last full calendar month was predominantly written by AI, as a percentage?AI-written share of merged code · % · definition
12. 12.
    How many roles fell vacant in the past 12 months and were deliberately left unfilled because AI absorbs the work?Roles deliberately left unfilled · count · definition

What you give

One submission per company, roughly ten minutes. You can save a draft and come back to it. Every numeric question shows its exact definition beside the input, so you are never guessing what is being asked.

What you get

The peer distribution for every question — p25, median and p75 for numbers, and the spread across options for choices. Filter it down by HQ country, ARR band, headcount, engineering headcount and funding type to compare against companies that actually resemble yours.

Any slice matching fewer than eight companies comes back suppressed rather than as a number. That is deliberate: it is what stops the benchmark being used to work out any single company's figures, including yours.