More than £2 billion of annual engineering spend in enterprise software delivery and 5,000+ developers sat behind the 30+ Route-to-Live (RtL) assessments that power this report. The message is clear: organisations that master their RtL pull away from the pack, posting 12× higher deployment frequencies and 75 % fewer production defects.
And that’s even truer given the explosion of AI. In a world of autonomous, self-healing pipelines and agentic operations, shipping fast is no longer an edge. It’s survival.
Our report shows you how to get there, wherever you are today.
AI is blowing up the old software delivery playbook. Our data shows a five-level maturity climb - from predictive pattern-based assistance to self-governing swarms of specialist agents that plan, build, test and ship while your people focus on the next breakthrough.
In this new context, foundational RtL challenges don’t just hurt today’s performance.
They also derail tomorrows, undercutting organisations’ readiness to harness the generational opportunities of AI.
You can’t bolt advanced AI onto chaos. Legacy gates, flaky tests and siloed teams create an AI Preparedness Gap that stalls progress and magnifies risk.
High Maturity
Basic generative AI providing autocompletion and suggestions based on patterns, with minimal context awareness.
Generative AI with organisational context through RAG, understanding codebases, documentation, and organisational guardrails.
AI systems with bidirectional integration to organisational tools, able to both retrieve real-time data and make updates to these systems.
AI agents that can reason through complex problems, and interact with dev environments to implement, test and refine solutions.
Collaborative AI systems where specialised agents work together, delegating tasks among themselves to achieve complex objectives.
Low Maturity
Get the foundations right and the payoff is eye watering. For your 12 month roadmap:
Double-digit jumps in speed, quality and engineer capacity
Let AI handle grunt work and engineers create value
Trace every change to a customer-centred goal
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