AI Delivery Economics Planning Index

Purpose

This initiative defines how AI-assisted software delivery can be measured from individual model invocations through issues, features, epics, and products. It separates immutable observations from derived cost and forecasting models so historical evidence can support new questions without rewriting the source record.

The material is generalized public planning guidance. It does not contain real usage records, prompts, source code, client identities, account identifiers, credentials, or private commercial data.

Current direction

AI delivery measurement and estimation framework

Status: working direction — first repository pilot proposed.

This is the recommended starting document. It defines:

A versioned event model for model invocations, estimates, evaluations, pricing snapshots, and human effort.
The boundary between immutable measurements and replaceable rollups.
The initial client-portal automation pilot.
A staged path to local interactive measurement, delivery-orchestrator integration, centralized storage, cost analysis, and calibrated estimation.
Data-minimization, access-control, and public publishing boundaries.

The first implementation issue is ai-consulting-client-portal issue #90. It proposes issue-attributed token measurement for the portal’s existing label-triggered Codex planning, revision, and implementation workflow. The issue remains subject to that repository’s planning and approval gates.

Relationship to other initiatives

The Client Portal supplies the first bounded measurement pilot because its automated work already has explicit issue, workflow-stage, model, and reasoning-effort context.
Governed Codex Automation defines the delivery orchestrator that can later emit canonical events for coordinated planning, building, and review activity.
This initiative owns the cross-repository measurement vocabulary, economic analysis, forecasting, and evaluation loop. It does not own application implementation or grant new model, GitHub, AWS, or deployment authority.

Maintenance

Keep this index synchronized whenever a planning document is added, removed, renamed, superseded, or materially repurposed. Clearly distinguish proposed capabilities from implemented measurement and label dated cost or pricing assumptions so they are not mistaken for current rates.