Function cockpit
Engineering
Agents build, test and document. Engineers own architecture and release.
Phase: Phase 3 — Functional orchestration
Run the intent-to-release graph as a governed system: decomposition, code generation, testing, documentation, vulnerability detection and deployment preparation are agent work; product intent, architecture and production release remain human.
Trust score
0
Touchless
0%
Human review
0%
Override rate
0%
Capacity released
25-40% engineering capacity in selected software-factory settings (case-specific)
Accountable human
Chief Technology Officer
CoS agent: Engineering Chief of Staff
Eleven decomposed sub-functions, each with its own estate rating
Sub-functions
Engineering, decomposed
Nobody automates a function. They automate the sub-functions inside it, at different speeds, with different ceilings. Each one carries its own orchestrator, its own human owner, and its own honest limit.
Autonomy ceiling range
70%→92%
The binding constraint here is Architecture & Design — capped at 70%.
Agents author the design options and the decision record. Architecture decisions constrain years of future work, so a review board ratifies them.
Engineering Intake Orchestrator · human owner VP Engineering Operations
estate rating
Owns request work end to end inside Engineering. Runs 3 lines across 16 stations, drains the repeatable share into the C2L tower, and holds 4 human gates.
Triage, estimation and dependency mapping are agentic. What the engineering organization spends its quarter on is a leadership commitment.
Units / wk
4,462
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$15
was $42
Architecture Orchestrator · human owner Chief Architect
estate rating
Owns design decision work end to end inside Engineering. Runs 3 lines across 17 stations, drains the repeatable share into no shared tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Agents author the design options and the decision record. Architecture decisions constrain years of future work, so a review board ratifies them.
Units / wk
6,946
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$8.80
was $21
Build Orchestrator · human owner Director, Platform Engineering
estate rating
Owns change work end to end inside Engineering. Runs 3 lines across 16 stations, drains the repeatable share into no shared tower, and holds 4 human gates.
Code generation and dependency maintenance are near-touchless. A human still approves every merge into a protected branch — that gate is the whole control.
Units / wk
15,527
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$15
was $40
Code Quality Orchestrator · human owner Director, Engineering Quality
estate rating
Owns pull request work end to end inside Engineering. Runs 3 lines across 14 stations, drains the repeatable share into no shared tower, and holds 5 human gates.
Analysis and comment generation are fully agentic and never get tired. Trivial changes auto-approve; anything touching security or data paths requires a human reviewer.
Units / wk
9,574
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$14
was $47
Test Orchestrator · human owner Director, Quality Engineering
estate rating
Owns test run work end to end inside Engineering. Runs 3 lines across 15 stations, drains the repeatable share into the C2L tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Test generation, selection and triage are the highest-autonomy work in Engineering. The quality gate signature before release stays with a named human.
Units / wk
16,000
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$4.20
was $13
Release Orchestrator · human owner Director, Release Engineering
estate rating
Owns release work end to end inside Engineering. Runs 3 lines across 15 stations, drains the repeatable share into the IT tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Canary analysis and automatic revert are faster than any human and run unsupervised. Promotion to full production passes a change board.
Units / wk
14,063
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$6.74
was $21
Reliability Orchestrator · human owner Director, Site Reliability
estate rating
Owns incident work end to end inside Engineering. Runs 3 lines across 17 stations, drains the repeatable share into the AI-OPS tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Correlation and runbook execution run in seconds without a human. A severity-one incident always gets a named human commander — the agent supports, it does not command.
Units / wk
16,109
Agents
9
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$6.59
was $24
Technical Debt Orchestrator · human owner Director, Engineering Effectiveness
estate rating
Owns debt item work end to end inside Engineering. Runs 3 lines across 16 stations, drains the repeatable share into no shared tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Detection, migration and deprecation are mechanical and agentic. Accepting the remediation into a team backlog is an owner decision.
Units / wk
12,503
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$17
was $43
Developer Experience Orchestrator · human owner Director, Developer Platform
estate rating
Owns developer request work end to end inside Engineering. Runs 3 lines across 16 stations, drains the repeatable share into the AI-OPS tower, and holds 2 human gates.
Environment provisioning and toolchain setup are fully self-service and touchless. Only platform roadmap choices need a human.
Units / wk
13,955
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$13
was $36
Security Engineering Orchestrator · human owner Director, Security Engineering
estate rating
Owns finding work end to end inside Engineering. Runs 3 lines across 19 stations, drains the repeatable share into the IT tower, and holds 4 human gates.
Scanning, credential revocation and low-risk patching are automatic because speed is the control. Critical vulnerabilities always get a named human owner with a clock.
Units / wk
7,570
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$13
was $47
Engineering Analytics Orchestrator · human owner Director, Engineering Analytics
estate rating
Owns analysis work end to end inside Engineering. Runs 3 lines across 15 stations, drains the repeatable share into the DATA-ANALYTICS tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Metric assembly and trend detection are fully agentic. Team-level metrics are deliberately never used for individual performance without a human interpreting context.
Units / wk
139
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$441
was $2K
How to read an estate rating
The rating is not a maturity badge. It scores seven control dimensions — control coverage, evidence quality, override discipline, data integrity, recovery readiness, cost transparency, and judgment readiness. Judgment readiness runs deliberately against autonomy: a sub-function that has pushed automation hardest usually scores worst on whether a human could still take the decision back.