# Release Notes - Q1 2026

#### 📊 Introducing Hivel Score

Meet your new favorite metric.\
**Hivel Score** brings together speed, quality, and throughput into a **single, easy-to-understand score out of 100**.

No more jumping across dashboards - just a quick, reliable snapshot of how your engineering org is performing.\
[*Dive in to learn more*](https://app.hivel.ai/dashboard/hivel-score) | [*Documentation*](/using-hivel/hivel-score.md)

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#### 🤖 AI Impact, Now with Cursor

AI Impact just got smarter. With **Cursor support now live**, you can track AI usage and code contributions from Cursor alongside your existing metrics - all in one place.\
Get a more **complete and unified view of how AI is shaping your codebase and metrics**.\
[*Try it out and see the full picture*](https://app.hivel.ai/dashboard/ai-impact)&#x20;

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#### 💬 Meet Lucy - Your Hivel Assistant

Say hello to **Lucy**, your shortcut to insights.\
Ask simple questions and instantly retrieve trends, identify bottlenecks, or surface top contributors - no dashboard hopping required.

From spotting hotspots to generating cross-metric trends, Lucy helps you **get answers, fast**.\
[*Go ahead, ask Lucy something*](https://app.hivel.ai/dashboard/lucy) | [*Documentation*](/using-hivel/lucy.md)

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#### 🔔 Hivel Alerts

Stay informed without staying logged in.\
With **Hivel Alerts**, you can receive proactive updates via Slack or email on the metrics that matter most - like PR delays, rising cycle times, or spikes in hotfixes.

It’s all about **timely nudges that drive action**.\
[*Set up your alerts and stay ahead*](https://app.hivel.ai/dashboard/alerts) | [*Documentation*](/using-hivel/alerts-in-hivel.md)

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## Few other enhancements

#### 🤝 Claude Code Integration

We now support **Claude Code Analytics API integration**.\
Track key metrics like suggestion acceptance, token usage, cost, commits, PRs, and sessions - giving you clear visibility into Claude usage.\
[*Connect to understand your AI usage*](https://app.hivel.ai/dashboard/claude-adoption) *|* [*Documentation*](/integrations/ai-tools/claude-console-integration.md)

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#### 📈 Enhanced Metrics & Drilldowns

* **Average PR Size** now supports grouping by quarter, release cycles, teams, and more
* **Active Days** expanded to team and aggregate views

More flexibility, better context, and sharper insights.

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#### 🗂️ Project Management Page

A centralized view of all your projects - complete with sync status, access details, and linked boards.\
[*Check out your projects*](https://app.hivel.ai/settings/project-management)

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#### 🔄 Revamped Pull Request Screen

A fresh, insight-rich PR experience:

* Unaccounted work visibility
* PR size vs review time correlation
* Active repos tracking
* PR open/merge trends

Designed to help you **understand and optimize review workflows faster**.\
[*Take a look at the new PR view*](https://app.hivel.ai/dashboard/pull-requests)

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#### 🧠 Code Telemetry (AI vs Human Contribution)

Get a directional understanding of how much code is written by AI vs humans using our **PR diff-based telemetry algorithm**.

Correlate this with cycle time and throughput to truly understand **AI’s impact on your engineering performance**.\
[*AI Impact*](https://app.hivel.ai/dashboard/ai-impact)

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#### 📝 Draft PR Calculation Update

We’ve refined how Draft PRs are measured:

* Draft time → counts toward **coding time only**
* Excluded from **review time calculations**

Cleaner, more accurate metrics.

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#### 🔗 Azure Git Server Integration

You can now directly integrate **Azure Git Server** from the Integrations page with a dedicated card.\
[*Documentation*](/integrations/scm/azure/azure-git-server.md)

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#### 📌 New Integration: ClickUp

ClickUp is now available under Project Management.\
Seamlessly sync data across **Investment, Work Item Breakdown, and related views**, similar to JIRA.\
[*Integrate ClickUp*](https://app.hivel.ai/settings/integrations) *|* [*Documentation*](/integrations/project-management/clickup.md)

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End of notes 📝\
Same mission: better visibility, less guesswork. The rest is up to you (you’ve got this). 💪


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