Exceeds helps you get insights on your code within minutes, without weeks of long installation and data ingestion that are often found with analytics platforms.

Step 1: Starting Your Pilot

Visit exceeds.ai and click "Start My Free Pilot"

Step 2: Sign-in

• Review the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and checking the box to accept

• Login via your Google or Microsoft Entra work account. (An Exceeds account will be created for you if this is your first time signing-in)

• Note: If you're not ready to connect with your work account, use your personal Google or Entra account and connect to your personal repo.

Step 3: Connect Your Code Repository

• Choose your GitHub or GitLab Cloud repo (additional SCMs available at Enterprise level)

• Authorize Exceeds to read and analyze your repo

• Select repositories to analyze (1 repo on Free tier)

  • Pick a repo with active developers for meaningful team insights

  • Select a repository with recent commits (last 30 days)

• In some cases, you'll need your repo Owner Admin's approval to connect with Exceeds.

  • An email request is sent to the GitHub admin automatically.

  • For GitLab, you'll need to ask the IT Admin to approve the request.

Step 4: Data Analysis

• Once Exceeds is connected, we will begin to analyze the code and produce reports and insights within minutes (typically less than 15 minutes for an organization of 100 software engineers).

• Exceeds will initially import data from all of the contributors in your selected repos, including AI bots (e.g., Cursorbot, Github Dependabot). You can merge or hide any contributor from the analysis and Exceeds platform.

• Exceeds will email you an alert when your Dashboard and analytics are ready for review.

Step 5: Explore AI Insights

• Take a look at the dashboards, leaderboards and explore

• As your team makes more commits, Exceeds will continuously update with the latest findings.

• Ask questions using the AI Assistant to dig deeper into any issue or data

What to Expect

Beyond Onboarding

Your real data progressively fills in across Exceeds over time. Exceeds typically shows the most recent 30 days of activity by default, while deeper code history analysis is available in the assistant and in profiles

First Session (Day 1)

• Review your team's baseline AI productivity metrics

• Identify early patterns in AI tool adoption

• Get familiar with available dashboards and reports

First Week

• Daily AI insights about team performance

• Identify top AI tool users and productivity gains

• Create teams and custom team dashboards

• (Contact Exceeds if you want support importing and connecting your existing team structure.

• Invite more engineering leaders (Pro tier) or request admin approval

Free Tier Quick Reference

The Free tier gives your organization full access for 30 days to core features with these limitations. Data access may be limited for analytics for some users depending on repository activity:

Perfect for: Individual managers evauating Exceeds or analyzing a single small team.

Next: Understanding Your Data