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title: "Targets and Industry Benchmarking"
description: "Set meaningful improvement goals with industry comparisons, custom targets, baseline capture, and progress tracking over time."
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generated_at: "2026-06-26T13:49:04.682Z"
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keywords: ["Industry benchmark comparisons", "Custom targets", "Baseline capture", "Trend monitoring over time", "Featured customer", "Stay up to date"]
url: "https://uplevelteam.com/product/see/targets"
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# Targets and Industry Benchmarking

> Set meaningful improvement goals with industry comparisons, custom targets, baseline capture, and progress tracking over time.

## Key Takeaways

- Industry benchmark comparisons
- Custom targets
- Custom targets
- Baseline capture
- Trend monitoring over time

# Targets and Industry Benchmarking

Define what good looks like for your organization and track progress against it

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 ## Industry benchmark comparisons

See how your performance stacks up against comparable engineering organizations 

 ## Custom targets 

Establish improvement goals aligned to business priorities, not arbitrary numbers 

 ## Custom targets 

Establish improvement goals aligned to business priorities, not arbitrary numbers 

 ## Baseline capture

Document current performance before changes begin so improvement is measurable 

 ## Trend monitoring over time 

Track whether initiatives are actually moving the needle against your starting point 

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#### Works with your existing tools

Uplevel integrates with major project management, code, AI, CI/CD, calendar, and chat tools. [**See our integrations →**](https://uplevelteam.com/product-how-it-works)

#### Powerful configurations

Set Uplevel to your unique deployment configuration, org structure, allocation schemes and rules, and user permissions

#### Advanced filters and grouping

Dive deeper to find the bottlenecks across managers, report groups, epics, projects, geos, and more — or create your own custom segments  

#### Compare over time

Select two segments and any metric to track differences across custom time periods

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#### Data controls

Uplevel never sees your source code, PII, or proprietary information—only the metadata needed for insights

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