A Codebase Drag Audit is a leadership-ready report on engineering delivery health. It surfaces exactly where delivery capacity leaks, identifying the files, patterns, and concentration risks that silently slow a team down. Tech debt becomes a budget case backed by quantifiable evidence rather than a feeling or estimate.
The audit reads public commit history and scores repositories on two live signals: bug-fix hotspot density and revert frequency. A third signal, sprint slippage estimation, is identified but not yet scored. It identifies refactor ROI candidates: files where the most corrective work has concentrated.
For engineering managers and CTOs, the report answers critical questions. Which files generate the most rework? Where is knowledge dangerously concentrated in a single contributor? How often do releases need immediate correction? Which directories show signs of accumulated technical debt that slows feature delivery?
The Drag Audit is free for any public repository on GitHub or GitLab. No signup required, no credit card needed, and no access to private code. Results are delivered in under sixty seconds with an optional AI interpretation of findings and recommended actions.