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# Investment & effort

Effort estimates, investment categories, software capitalization, and the cost settings used to put a price on engineering work.

Effort estimates, investment categories, software capitalization, and the cost settings used to put a price on engineering work.

* [Daily effort](/data-model/entities/investment-and-effort/effort-daily.md) — Swarmia’s estimate of the effort spent per author per day towards specific work items.
* [Daily effort total](/data-model/entities/investment-and-effort/effort-daily-total.md) — Swarmia’s estimate of how much of a full-time equivalent an author accounted for on a single day. One row per author per day. Use `EffortDaily` when you need that day broken down by issue or pull request.
* [Investment breakdown](/data-model/entities/investment-and-effort/investment-breakdown.md) — Investment breakdown consists of multiple investment categories. Work is attributed to each category based on issue and pull request filters.
* [Investment category](/data-model/entities/investment-and-effort/investment-category.md) — Issues and pull requests are categorized into different investment categories based on a set of ordered rules.
* [Investment category assignment](/data-model/entities/investment-and-effort/investment-category-assignment.md) — Assignment of an investment category to an issue or pull request.
* [Monthly capitalization](/data-model/entities/investment-and-effort/capex-monthly.md) — Immutable software-capitalization snapshot: one row per author and issue per month, captured at generation time so the numbers stay auditable even as the live data changes.
* [Monthly effort](/data-model/entities/investment-and-effort/effort-monthly.md) — Swarmia’s estimate of the effort spent per author per month towards specific issues and pull requests.
* [Organization cost settings](/data-model/entities/investment-and-effort/organization-cost-settings.md) — Cost settings configured for an organization, used to estimate the monetary cost of engineering effort. Only readable by users who can view engineering cost; empty otherwise.

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