{"slug": "flux-expands-its-platform-to-show-whether-ai-coding-investments-are-paying-off", "title": "Flux expands its platform to show whether AI coding investments are paying off", "summary": "Flux Cyber Inc. expanded its code-first engineering intelligence platform with five generally available capabilities that measure whether engineering organizations' AI coding investments are paying off, founder and CEO Ted Julian said AI is \"the biggest bet most engineering organizations have ever made.\" The capabilities — verified velocity, trusted review, auditable work, continuous quality and defensible spend — run on Flux's existing code analysis without added instrumentation, addressing what Flux calls five blind spots in metrics such as tickets, story points and token counts. Flux is backed by Calibrate Ventures, which led a $5 million round in June with True Ventures and Glasswing Ventures, and Google Cloud's 2025 DORA report found 90% of software professionals using AI at work.", "body_md": "### Flux expands its platform to show whether AI coding investments are paying off\n\nCode-first engineering intelligence startup [Flux Cyber Inc.](https://www.askflux.ai) today expanded its platform with tools meant to show engineering leaders whether their investment in artificial intelligence for software development is paying off.\n\nThe release takes on a problem Flux says has come up again and again with engineering leaders over the past year. Adoption is easy enough to show. What most of them still report upward, according to the company, are tickets, story points, sprint velocity and token counts, which describe how busy a team has been more than what it delivered.\n\nResearch from Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment program suggests adoption alone says little about results. Its [2025 report](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-the-2025-dora-report) found 90% of software professionals using AI at work. On whether that makes teams better, the authors wrote that AI “doesn’t fix a team; it amplifies what’s already there.”\n\nTed Julian, founder and chief executive of Flux, called AI “the biggest bet most engineering organizations have ever made.” The blind spots undermining that bet, he said, hide inside tools built for a different era of software development. “Tickets and adoption rates describe intent,” Julian said. “The code itself shows what the team actually built and delivered.”\n\nFlux has broken the problem into five blind spots, each with a capability of its own. All five capabilities run on the code analysis the platform already performs, so customers do not have to add instrumentation or change how their teams work. Each blind spot is assessed separately, because an organization can be solid in one area and exposed in another.\n\nThe first goes after what Flux calls velocity theater. Verified velocity sorts each merged change by type, from new features to bug fixes, and deployment frequency and lead time are then measured against the organization’s own history. A burst of activity counts as progress only when the code backs it up.\n\nReview debt is the second target. Trusted review tracks how long changes wait for a first reviewer and how the load is spread, then weighs review depth against each change’s size and risk. The point is to spot a backlog before it lands on a few overstretched senior engineers. A third capability, auditable work, pulls activity straight from commits and pull request history, so significant changes show up under a name even when nobody touched a ticket.\n\nA fourth, continuous quality, follows new and resolved security findings, newly added dependencies and failure and recovery trends against each team’s norms, with the aim of catching drift before it causes a production incident.\n\nThe last capability is built as much for finance as for engineering. Defensible spend sorts work into capitalizable and operational categories. Flux said that gives leadership something solid to point to for spending decisions and research and development tax credits. Token usage does not enter into it, since the measure is engineering effort and where it goes.\n\nAll five capabilities are generally available now.\n\nFlux is backed by venture capital. Calibrate Ventures led its $5 million round [in June](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/flux-raises-5m-to-give-engineering-leaders-ground-truth-visibility-in-the-age-of-ai-302796320.html), when True Ventures and Glasswing Ventures also invested.\n\n##### Image: Flux\n\n# A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:\n\nSupport our mission to keep content open and free by engaging with theCUBE community. **Join theCUBE’s Alumni Trust Network**, where technology leaders connect, share intelligence and create opportunities.\n\n- **15M+ viewers of theCUBE videos** , powering conversations across AI, cloud, cybersecurity and more\n- **11.4k+ theCUBE alumni** — Connect with more than 11,400 tech and business leaders shaping the future through a unique trusted-based network\n\n### Are you an AWS customer?  Support SiliconANGLE financially by buying your AWS services from our Marketplace portal page and links: [https://siliconangle.com/aws-marketplace/](https://siliconangle.com/aws-marketplace/)\n\n##### **About SiliconANGLE Media**\n\n[SiliconANGLE](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsiliconangle.com%2F&esheet=54119777&newsitemid=20240910506833&lan=en-US&anchor=SiliconANGLE&index=9&md5=646b1b564e2259100a2b8638aab0a552),\n\n[theCUBE Network](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecube.net%2F&esheet=54119777&newsitemid=20240910506833&lan=en-US&anchor=theCUBE+Network&index=10&md5=7de2a85f95ab4a4a495cede20b8cb1da),\n\n[theCUBE Research](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthecuberesearch.com%2F&esheet=54119777&newsitemid=20240910506833&lan=en-US&anchor=theCUBE+Research&index=11&md5=7bb33676722925eb57d588ec343e4f6f),\n\n[CUBE365](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cube365.net%2F&esheet=54119777&newsitemid=20240910506833&lan=en-US&anchor=CUBE365&index=12&md5=d310fb35919714e66ad8d42c9c0c1bc6),\n\n[theCUBE AI](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecubeai.com%2F&esheet=54119777&newsitemid=20240910506833&lan=en-US&anchor=theCUBE+AI&index=13&md5=b8b98472f8071b23ebb10ab9a8dd0683)and theCUBE SuperStudios — with flagship locations in Silicon Valley and the New York Stock Exchange — SiliconANGLE Media operates at the intersection of media, technology and AI.\n\nFounded by tech visionaries John Furrier and Dave Vellante, SiliconANGLE Media has built a dynamic ecosystem of industry-leading digital media brands that reach 15+ million elite tech professionals. 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