Budget Drag
10-20%
of new-product tech budget can be diverted to tech debt remediation.
Why This Matters Now
The $2.41T problem.
IT departments are dying by a thousand cuts: small contract mismatches, cascading rollback loops, and repeated release stalls. Mortar intervenes before those cuts compound into systemic failure.
Source: CISQ 2022, Cost of Poor Software Quality in the U.S.
Run it now
$ mortar score --base examples/openapi/v1.yaml --head examples/openapi/v2_breaking.yaml --policy mortar.policy.yaml
score: 64
classification: BREAKING
decision: BLOCK
audit_log: .mortar/audit/2026-02-19T14-31-22Z.jsonl
exit code: 1Estate Drag
20-40%
of technology estate value can be absorbed by tech debt burden.
Outage Cost
54%
of significant outages report cost above $100k.
Value Chain
Where Mortar creates enterprise value
What You Get
Ship faster. Break nothing.
Mortar introduces a new control plane for change safety at service boundaries: Insight, Foresight, and Authority in one deterministic release workflow.
Sources: CISQ (2022), McKinsey Digital tech debt survey findings, Uptime Institute 2023 Global Data Center Survey.