EidralEngineering Engine
Chapter 05

Operate: keeping it correct after go-live

An agent that was right in March starts being wrong in September. Vendors change document formats, thresholds drift away from practice, models get deprecated, and the process the audit mapped quietly moves. The Engineering Engine is infrastructure, and infrastructure gets maintained.

Modelled at steady state
MeasureBeforeAfterChange
Review wait time11 hours2 hours82% faster
Time to a new hire's first merged change26 days11 days58% faster
Context search per engineer3.1 hrs/week40 min/week78% removed
First-pass review accuracy92.5%98.2%+5.7 pts
Cost per pull request reviewed$57$2458% lower
Engineering Engine — agent accuracy over the first twelve weeks
89%95%100%W0W2W4W6W8W10W12
  • W0Go-live92.5%
  • W4Dismissed flags retune repository conventions95.1%
  • W8Test framework upgrade detected97%
  • W12Noise floor raised after false-positive review98.2%
Engineering Engine — agent accuracy over the first twelve weeks
PointValue
W092.5%
W293.9%
W495.1%
W696.2%
W897%
W1097.7%
W1298.2%

Accuracy climbs because corrections from your team are fed back, not because the model improved on its own. The marked weeks are the events that moved it. Each Engine reaches a different plateau, because each starts from a different baseline and a different exception mix.

What the monthly fee covers

Model swaps

Review quality is re-benchmarked against the flags your engineers accepted and dismissed on your own repositories, so a model change is measured on your code rather than a public benchmark.

Codebase drift

Conventions change, services get split, and a review rule tuned against last year's structure starts producing noise. Drift gets detected and the agents retuned against the current tree.

Next workflow along

Internal support questions from finance and operations reuse the context agent already indexing the codebase and its documentation.

Monthly
  • Drift report: where practice has moved away from what the agents were built against
  • Threshold tuning against the decisions your team actually made
  • Document and format updates as vendors and systems change
  • Accuracy review by exception type, not one blended number
Quarterly
  • Business review against the baseline the audit set
  • Scoping the next workflow, usually the one adjacent to what already runs
  • Model re-benchmarking against your own captured decisions
  • Roadmap for the following quarter, with what we would not build and why
Scope your engagement

Start with the engineering workflow that costs you the most

The audit runs 3 to 4 weeks on site at $15–25k, credited in full against a build signed within 90 days. It produces the system map, the exception taxonomy and a build plan, and you own all of it whether or not the build follows.

Illustrative

The before and after columns are modelled from the basis company, and the accuracy curve is the shape we build toward rather than a measurement. Eidral has run no client engagement, so there is no delivered result to show here, and a curve presented as measured would be the one claim on this site that could not survive a reference check.