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Monitor and measure what your teams + AI produce, optimize model routes and agent context for max efficienciy, and govern adoption AI across teams

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Track token spend, outcomes, and AI engineering efficiency across your teams

Optimize

Model routing and context engineering that cut token waste, maximize outcomes

Govern

Comprehensive policies and guardrails to minimize AI adoption drisk

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AI ROI

Maximize AI returns across development teams, tools, and outcomes

AI Spend Visibility

Track AI coding costs and uncover what drives your spend

AI Token Allocation

Allocate AI spend to team budgets and forecast what’s next

AI Governance

Enforce model, budget, and data policies across developers and agents

Developer Productivity

Understand AI's impact on delivery, quality, and productivity

Optimal Model Routing

Route tasks using model performance proven on your own code

Build Your Own Bench

Turn shipped work into benchmarks for smarter AI coding decisions

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Vitaly Gordon

Vitaly Gordon

Vitaly Gordon is the Co-founder & CEO of Faros. Prior to Faros, Vitaly was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and the founder of Salesforce Einstein, the world's first comprehensive enterprise AI platform.

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AI Industry
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10/29/26

Engineering leaders: Pay attention to Anthropic’s IPO pitch

Anthropic’s IPO pitch puts AI spending under the microscope. Engineering leaders need to know what finance sees when it looks at those numbers.
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10/19/26

What Accenture’s $29 Claude cap misses

Accenture capped Claude spend at $29 per employee, but a blanket limit can’t tell your best AI users from your biggest leaks. See why tracing spend to outcomes matters first.
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10/9/26

The most expensive number in our new AI Engineering report

A restarted task is paid for twice, once for the wrong output and once for the fix. Restarts per developer are up 66.7%, and finding the error adds hours.
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9/21/26

Introducing Faros Token Engineering

Stop guessing if AI token spend pays off. Faros Token Engineering traces coding agent usage to shipped features, incidents resolved, and ROI.
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7/31/26

Faros supports the mission of the Open Secure AI Alliance

Faros proudly supports the Open Secure AI Alliance. Faros CEO, Vitaly Gordon, explains why preventing AI lock-in and utilizing open models is crucial for cybersecurity.
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AI Industry
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8/14/24

McKinsey is *Still* Talking about Engineering Productivity, and That’s a Good Thing

Revisiting McKinsey's software engineering productivity framework, Vitaly Gordon reflects on what's changed and how to implement McKinsey's visibility recommendations within days.
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5
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6/27/23

Announcing Our $20M Series-A Funding

I am delighted to announce that we have raised $20M in Series-A financing, led by one of the most successful VC investors in Silicon Valley and the first board member in iconic companies like Gitlab, Splunk, Fastly, and Bill.com, David Hornik of Lobby Capital...
Faros Announcements
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Architecture
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12/15/22

Faros AI - A Modern Data Stack for Engineering Operations

The Faros AI infrastructure leverages a proven modern data stack: Airbyte, Hasura, Metabase, Activepieces, and dbt — specially customized to handle the nuances of Engineering Operations data. And unlike blackbox solutions, it is designed to grow with the growing needs of your engineering organization. Read On ...
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3/2/22

We raised $16M to drive the future of engineering operations. Join us on this exciting journey!

Faros AI has raised $16 million in seed funding led by SignalFire, Salesforce Ventures, Global Founders Capital and Operator Collective.
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