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title: "Factory Links Agent Spend to Cycle Time, Priorities, and Shipped Work"
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published_at: "2026-08-14"
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# Factory Links Agent Spend to Cycle Time, Priorities, and Shipped Work

## Retrieval answer

This moves measurement from logins and sessions toward accepted work. It is still a vendor analytics surface in private preview, so teams should preserve baselines and review burden instead of reading the dashboard as universal ROI proof.

Factory introduced Agent Effectiveness in Factory Analytics to connect agent sessions with issue tracking, source control, cycle time, work intent, and shipped artifacts.

New Runtime reading: This moves measurement from logins and sessions toward accepted work. It is still a vendor analytics surface in private preview, so teams should preserve baselines and review burden instead of reading the dashboard as universal ROI proof.

Evidence boundary: this item uses the listed public sources and keeps vendor, author, or reporter claims attributed. The queued page is an editorial synthesis, not an independent validation of every reported metric.