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Platform engineering ROI that CFOs understand
How internal platforms pay back in lead time and incident cost—not vanity metrics.
Devoun Engineering · 6 min · December 14, 2025
Internal platforms earn budget when they shorten lead time for change and reduce the cost of incidents—not when they ship another portal.
Pick two golden paths. Instrument them. Report weekly. Kill abstractions that nobody uses.
A platform team that cannot name its users by name is optimizing the wrong thing.