metrics
External Forma Value Evidence
Measures whether comparable external work shows a reliable maintenance or knowledge-quality advantage from Forma beyond disciplined Markdown and lightweight tools.
Definition
This metric measures product-value evidence, not internal workflow readiness. It asks whether comparable external work is easier to set up, maintain, review, or reuse with Forma than with a disciplined Markdown baseline and lightweight tools.
Measures
- setup and support time;
- knowledge or reference failures caught before use;
- Agent and Human rework caused by missing or stale context;
- completion and reviewer effort for the same representative job;
- feature use and continued weekly use;
- qualitative reasons to continue, narrow, reposition, or stop.
Evidence Rules
- Compare the same job and bounded corpus in both paths.
- Preserve qualitative findings separately from measured outcomes.
- Record consent, confidentiality constraints, and evidence-retention limits.
- Do not infer market fit from downloads, internal dogfooding, or a published narrative alone.