Costs arrive attached to their objective
Every cost carries the company outcome the work was meant to move.
Codespeed connects usage to the objective, project, and specialist behind it. Leaders decide where capacity belongs, set limits before work begins, and choose what happens when a ceiling is reached.
Set the limit before work begins
Organization
The company budget
Project
The amount this project can use
Specialist
The amount this specialist can use
Every cost carries the company outcome the work was meant to move.
Open the view and see which initiatives are consuming capacity across the company right now.
Each cost names the specialist or Lead Dev that ran the work, so a number always has an owner.
Open any cost and read the changes, findings, and calls that produced it.
Every ceiling nests inside the one above it
Organization
The ceiling every project inherits
Project
Lower for a project that should spend less
Specialist
Lower again for one specialist
Thread
Drawn from what is left above it
Objective
Drawn from what is left above it
Your team watches the remaining budget while there is still time to move capacity to the work that matters more.
You name who can raise a limit, and nobody else can, so extra capacity is always a decision someone made.
Work that stops at a ceiling keeps its objective, its context, and its owner, ready to resume when you decide.