# How did The Access Group increase engineering output with Devin?

> The Access Group (250 products, 2,000+ engineers) adopted Devin. Cognition reports 5x more merged pull requests than a year earlier; in one test, ten items estimated at two days each came back in twenty minutes.

- **Evidence grade:** B — Named organization with a quantified outcome, from the vendor or the organization's own announcement.
- **Organization:** The Access Group (business software company)
- **Industry:** Software, Internet & Media — Business management software (UK)
- **Roles:** Software Engineering
- **Tools:** Devin (Cognition)
- **Status:** production · **Agent pattern:** autonomous-agent · **Autonomy:** 2/4
- **Last verified:** 2026-10-17

## Reported outcomes
- merged pull requests: 5x more than a year ago [1] (self-reported)

## How it works
1. Engineers delegate backlog items to Devin.
2. Merged pull requests tracked as output measure.

## Risks & compliance
- Agent-written code requires human review and testing
- Vendor-published results; not independently audited

## Sources
1. Cognition (Devin), "How The Access Group 5x'd engineering output across 250 products and 2,000+ engineers" (undated; accessed 2026-10-17) <https://devin.ai/customers/access-group>
   > "They gave those ten items to Devin: all ten came back in twenty minutes."

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