{"slug": "industry-comparisons-in-the-copilot-impact-dashboard", "title": "Industry comparisons in the Copilot impact dashboard", "summary": "GitHub added an opt-in \"Industry comparison\" section to the Copilot impact dashboard that benchmarks an organization's Copilot agentic adoption and leverage against aggregated peer data, ranked against the peer median for a 28-day reporting period and against the top decile as the peer group grows. Participation is disabled by default, peer groups are set by company size (1–999, 1,000–4,999, or 5,000+ employees) and one of ten industries, and aggregated benchmarks contain no identifying data and are deleted after 30 days. GitHub said the feature gives enterprise leaders peer context to set realistic goals and identify adoption gaps, and noted comparisons appear only in the dashboard, not in the Copilot usage metrics API, NDJSON exports, or downloads.", "body_md": "Improvement\n\n# Industry comparisons in the Copilot impact dashboard\n\nThe Copilot impact dashboard now includes an “Industry comparison” section. Enterprises, and organizations that aren’t owned by an enterprise, can compare their Copilot agentic adoption and leverage with aggregated benchmarks from participating peers. Participation is opt-in and disabled by default.\n\n## [What’s new](#whats-new)\n\n- **Agentic adoption and leverage benchmarks** — See the percentage of your users who are agent-first or multi-agent, and how the pull request merge rate of agentic users compares with nonagentic users. Once enough businesses have opted in, each score is ranked against the peer median for the 28-day reporting period and against the top decile as the peer group grows.\n- **Peer groups by company size and industry** — Choose a company size (e.g., 1–999, 1,000–4,999, or 5,000+ employees) and one of ten industries, then switch between your industry and all industries. If your industry’s peer group is too small, the comparison widens to all industries for your company size, and the dashboard labels the peer group it used.\n- **Copilot metrics industry comparison policy** — Opt in from the dashboard or centrally from your enterprise or organization Copilot policies. Both places use the same policy, so turning it off in either place stops both contributing data and seeing comparisons.\n\n## [Why this matters](#why-this-matters)\n\nEnterprise leaders can measure their own Copilot adoption, but until now they couldn’t tell whether it was leading or lagging comparable businesses. Industry comparisons add the peer context needed to set realistic goals, identify adoption gaps, and communicate progress.\n\n## [Important notes](#important-notes)\n\n- Rankings appear only after enough businesses have opted in to form a peer group. Especially soon after launch, you might see only the median, a broader peer group than you selected, or no ranking until more peers join. Rankings also aren’t shown when your own score can’t be calculated such as when all your users are already agent-first or multi-agent, leaving no nonagentic baseline for leverage.\n- Comparisons refresh daily. When you opt out, comparisons stop appearing right away and your data is excluded starting with the next daily update. Aggregated benchmarks contain no identifying data and are deleted after 30 days.\n- On GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency, you’re compared only with participants in the same region. Data is never combined across regions.\n- Organizations owned by an enterprise participate through their enterprise, and enterprises used only to assign Copilot Business licenses can’t participate. Enterprise owners, and owners of organizations that aren’t owned by an enterprise, can opt in and set the peer group. Anyone who can view the Copilot impact dashboard can see the results. The Copilot usage metrics policy must be enabled.\n- Industry comparisons appear only in the dashboard. They aren’t included in the Copilot usage metrics API, NDJSON exports, or downloads.\n\nVisit the [Copilot impact dashboard documentation](https://docs.github.com/copilot/how-tos/administer-copilot/view-impact-dashboard) to get started.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/industry-comparisons-in-the-copilot-impact-dashboard", "canonical_source": "https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-22-industry-comparisons-in-the-copilot-impact-dashboard", "published_at": "2026-10-22 16:28:24+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-22 17:13:26.461231+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["GitHub", "Copilot", "GitHub Enterprise Cloud"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/industry-comparisons-in-the-copilot-impact-dashboard", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/industry-comparisons-in-the-copilot-impact-dashboard.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/industry-comparisons-in-the-copilot-impact-dashboard.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/industry-comparisons-in-the-copilot-impact-dashboard.jsonld"}}