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Working references from Certance Advisory: what we measure, what it costs, and what to change first. Every figure traces to a primary source.

September 2026 · DORA

Test evidence under DORA: what Articles 24 and 25 require

DORA's first supervisory year turns on evidence, not plans. What Articles 24 and 25 ask for, where automated test suites go blind, and how to map coverage to business risk.

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August 2026 · The Standard

The Certance Standard: quality for agentic software development

Quality is the evidence you can hand to someone else. The vision and the eleven statements of the Standard for teams where agents write most of the code. First Edition in production.

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July 2026 · Fourth Edition

AI token efficiency: how teams cut Copilot and Claude spend

The sourced levers that cut monthly token spend by 30–50% without cutting output quality: model routing, prompt caching, context hygiene, and moving deterministic work out of the model loop.

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July 2026 · Research

AI maturity assessment: why fluent teams cannot show return

Adoption climbs, acceptance rates look healthy, and the board asks what the licences return. The four findings that recur in almost every team we assess, why they happen, and the seven dimensions that measure them.

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