If an AI coding pilot completes 80 tasks but only 20 survive review, its cost is not “spend divided by 80.”
The useful unit is an accepted engineering task: bounded work that passes normal checks, receives human approval, and creates no unresolved rollback or security exception.
Current discussion about managing AI investment in the agentic era makes explicit exposure limits more important, not less. Here is a vendor-neutral pilot model you can apply to MonkeyCode SaaS.
Define the unit first
Choose one task class—small maintenance fixes, for example—and cap the pilot at 20 eligible tasks over two weeks.
