Most technical-debt conversations stall at "we should do something about it." The buyer's diligence team will eventually convert your engineering organization's pain into a multiple haircut — typically 1–3 turns of EBITDA depending on the depth of the debt. This calculator lets you do that conversion yourself, before they do.

The calculator decomposes drag into four categories, each calibrated against aggregated Human Renaissance engagement data: on-call burden (loaded engineering hours × interruption multiplier), incident cost (failed deploys × MTTR × team size + per-event fixed cost), velocity drag (deploy-frequency gap to target × ARR sensitivity), and coverage gap (sub-70% coverage × regression escape sensitivity). The methodology is documented in The EBITDA-DevOps Bridge; the calibration coefficients ship inside this tool.

Architectural debt that hasn't yet manifested in incident or velocity metrics. Vendor lock-in. Security CVE backlogs without exposed exploits. The calculator gives you a directional floor on tech-debt EBITDA drag; the diligence team will find the rest. For the full picture, request a calibrated assessment.