Field Notes 01: Litera, from 15 days to 4 hours

19th August 2026 • 1 minute read

Litera is one of the clearest examples yet of the agentic engineering shift underway across Hg's portfolio, where the companies furthest along are seeing engineers produce roughly 2.5x the output of a year ago.

Eighteen months ago, Litera's CTO Greg Ingino set out to double the productivity of the company's entire R&D team within a year. The team got there in under twelve months - and hasn't slowed down since.

Roughly 3x, with velocity gains reaching 8x and beyond on some teams

Up from 5% to 68% of all PRs over six quarters

We're shipping AI products that are adding value to our customers faster than we could ever have imagined."

Greg Ingino, CTO, Litera

Field Notes are snapshots that show what AI transformation actually looks like inside the companies we back, with the numbers to back it up. We'll be back soon with the next one.