42% of engineering time goes to debt. That's not a culture problem.
Technical debt compounds quietly.
By the time it shows up on the roadmap, it's already in your velocity metrics.
Stripe's 2018 Developer Coefficient study found 42% of developer working time is spent on technical debt - a $85 billion annual opportunity cost globally. Security debt is the fastest-accumulating category.
Join the waitlistSource: Stripe, "The Developer Coefficient," 2018.
Technical debt is a
balance sheet problem.
Technical debt consumes 40% of your IT budget.
Gartner 2025 research found that technical debt consumes an estimated 40% of IT budgets. McKinsey found that reducing debt frees up 50% more engineering time - and companies with low debt levels have 20% higher revenue growth.
Gartner, "Managing Technical Debt," 2025. McKinsey, 2022.
91% of CTOs cite technical debt as their top strategic challenge.
STX Next's 2023 CTO survey found that 91% of technology leaders identify technical debt as their primary strategic impediment. The compounding mechanism is well-documented: debt slows feature delivery, increases bug rates, raises onboarding cost.
STX Next, "CTO Survey: Technical Debt," 2023.
The velocity-security tradeoff is false - but your team is living it.
Most engineering organizations treat security remediation as a velocity cost. Snyk's Forrester TEI 2025 found that teams with automated remediation recovered 84,000 developer hours over three years. The tradeoff disappears when execution is autonomous.
Forrester Research, "TEI of Snyk," commissioned by Snyk, 2025.
Close technical debt
without adding sprint work.
Debt reduction without sprint allocation
- Hyrax's Improve workflow works through accumulated vulnerability backlogs continuously - no sprint tickets required
- McKinsey's 50% velocity recovery from debt reduction is achievable only if debt actually decreases; Hyrax makes it decrease
- Every closed finding is permanent: governance rules prevent the same class of issue from reintroducing
Strategic debt visibility
- Every finding Hyrax surfaces and closes creates an audit record - debt reduction is measurable, not anecdotal
- Governance rules self-generate from observed failure modes - the system learns where your debt tends to accumulate
- Board-level reporting: finding volume, closure rate, MTTR, and backlog trend are all derivable from Hyrax's PR history
Autonomous execution removes the tradeoff
- Engineers review and merge Hyrax PRs - they don't generate them
- Clear pricing: Pro $30/mo, Team $200/mo - credits included
- 13-step verification before every merge: broken fixes don't ship
What changes when the
remediation loop closes.
| Business Metric | Manual Remediation | With Hyrax |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering velocity | Security findings consume sprint capacity | Findings execute autonomously - sprint capacity preserved |
| Technical debt ratio | Security debt accumulates between sprint cycles | Continuous fix execution means debt decreases consistently |
| Breach risk surface | Known unpatched vulnerabilities remain open 74+ days | Findings execute at introduction - exposure window closes |
| Audit readiness | Evidence assembly is manual at audit time | Every fix produces a complete audit trail |
| AppSec ROI | Per-seat pricing scales with headcount | Pay compute at cost, not per-seat |
Sources: Edgescan 2025; Forrester Research, "TEI of Snyk," 2025.