What Is Warclick?
Warclick is an engineering-intelligence platform for GitHub. It measures developer productivity, AI coding tool adoption, and DORA metrics across every branch — not just main — and preserves attribution to the original author even when pull requests are squash-merged.
It connects through a read-only GitHub App, collects metadata only (timestamps, authors, counts — never source code), and surfaces insights through dashboards, leaderboards, and reports built for engineering leaders.
Engineering Intelligence, Defined
Engineering intelligence is the practice of measuring developer productivity, collaboration patterns, and tool effectiveness using real activity data from your codebase. The category distinguishes itself from two older approaches:
- Surveys and self-reporting — what engineers say they do. Biased, slow, and lossy.
- Default-branch analytics — what made it to main. Misses roughly 80% of the actual work: prototypes, mentoring through code, experiments, and architectural spikes that live on feature branches.
Warclick is built on the principle that your engineering system's true state lives in its git metadata — every branch, every review, every commit — and that you can derive trustworthy productivity and adoption metrics from it without ever looking at source code.
What Problems Warclick Solves
- Invisible contributors. Hands-on engineering leaders, mentors, and reviewers who work on feature branches or have their commits squashed out of attribution. Warclick surfaces them.
- Unknown AI coding tool adoption. How much of your team is actually using Copilot, Claude, or Cursor? Warclick detects this at the commit level, three ways (explicit tool tags, behavioral heuristics, manual labels), and reports real adoption curves.
- Concentrated review load. Most teams have 2–3 people doing 70%+ of code reviews. Warclick measures it and shows distribution over time so you can redistribute.
- DORA metrics without a survey or spreadsheet. Deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and MTTR, computed from GitHub activity.
- Leaderboard-style visibility. A fair, all-branch scoreboard that recognizes builders, reviewers, and mentors — not just whoever clicked “Merge” last.
Who Warclick Is For
Warclick is built for engineering leaders, not individual contributors. Primary audiences:
- VPs of Engineering and CTOs at teams of ~10–50 engineers.
- Engineering Directors and Engineering Managers responsible for team performance and retention.
- Platform and DevOps leaders tracking rollout of AI coding tools.
- Operators and investors who want a read on a portfolio company's engineering health without sending a human surveyor.
If you're trying to ship faster, understand where hidden talent is, or get honest numbers on AI productivity — you're the target audience.
What Warclick Tracks
- Commits across every branch (not just main).
- Pull requests opened, merged, reviewed, and their cycle time.
- Code review distribution by reviewer and over time.
- AI coding tool use at the commit level — Copilot, Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Aider, Devin, Amazon Q, Codeium, and more — with three-tier detection (confirmed, likely, manual).
- DORA metrics: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, mean time to restore.
- Configurable impact scores at per-warrior and per-tribe level.
- Repository tiering, discipline breakdown, and languages in use.
- Activity calendars per developer and per team.
How Warclick Compares to the Category
The engineering-intelligence category includes tools like LinearB, Jellyfish, Pluralsight Flow, Swarmia, and Haystack, plus GitHub's built-in Insights. Warclick's positioning within that category:
| Dimension | Typical tool | Warclick |
|---|---|---|
| Branch coverage | Default branch only | All branches — feature, experimental, archival |
| Squash-merge attribution | Credits the merger | Actor-first — credits the original author |
| AI tool detection | Self-report or none | Per-commit, three-tier (confirmed / likely / manual) |
| DORA metrics | Included | Included |
| Pricing | ~$15–40 per user / month | $4–$5 per active contributor / month |
| Onboarding time | Days to weeks | 30 minutes (GitHub App install) |
The short version: most tools in this category prioritize ceremony and enterprise procurement. Warclick prioritizes correctness of the underlying measurement (all branches, actor-first attribution) and fast setup so engineering leaders get honest data within the same day.
Security Model
Warclick collects metadata only — timestamps, authors, and counts. It does not access, store, or transmit source code. The GitHub App requires read-only permissions and can be uninstalled at any time. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit, hosted in AWS us-east-2. Full deletion is available on request. See security overview.
Quick FAQ
What category does Warclick belong to?
Engineering intelligence. Adjacent to developer productivity analytics, engineering performance management, and DORA metrics platforms.
How is Warclick different from GitHub's built-in Insights?
GitHub Insights counts commits on the default branch and attributes merges to the person who clicked Merge. That hides most developer activity on feature branches and under-credits the authors of squashed PRs. Warclick measures every branch, credits the original author, and adds AI tool detection and leadership-focused views like review-load distribution and impact scoring.
Is Warclick the same as LinearB or Jellyfish?
Same category, different trade-offs. Warclick is priced about 90% below comparable platforms, ships in minutes instead of weeks, and focuses on all-branch correctness plus AI adoption as first-class features. See why Warclick exists.
How do you detect AI coding tools?
Three tiers: confirmed (explicit tool tags such as Co-Authored-By headers), likely (behavioral heuristics calibrated against known AI and non-AI users), and manual (you label). See how we detect AI.
How long does onboarding take?
About 30 minutes — install the GitHub App, and the initial backfill runs automatically.
Try It
Free for 7 days, no credit card required. Setup takes 30 minutes.