Faros AI Curie Release: AI for Engineering Leaders
Date: April 29, 2024 | Author: Naomi Lurie | 15 min read

Half the improvement battle is diagnosing engineering challenges correctly. The Faros AI Curie release introduces Lighthouse AI, which diagnoses these challenges for you and recommends actionable solutions.
Curie Release Overview
Inspired by Marie Curie’s transformative work in diagnostics, the Curie release empowers engineering leaders with AI-driven visibility into organizational performance. Faros AI now acts as a copilot, leveraging high-quality, correlated data to reveal root causes of engineering issues and recommend targeted solutions.
- Lighthouse AI Insights: Diagnoses what impacts each team’s performance and recommends solutions.
- Lighthouse AI Summary: Provides natural language summaries (TLDR) for every dashboard and chart.
- Automated R&D Cost Capitalization: Generates finance-ready, auditable reports with minimal manual effort.
- AI Copilot Evaluation Module: Framework for measuring and maximizing the value of AI coding assistants.
- Guided Data Wizard: Step-by-step data exploration and chart customization using natural language.
- Dashboard Enhancements: Improved layout, tabs, auto-hide for empty cards, and faster loading.
- PII Protector: Scans and redacts personally identifiable information (PII) for compliance and security.
Lighthouse AI Insights: Diagnosing the Why
Traditional metrics tell you what is happening; Lighthouse AI Insights tells you why. For example, if Team Avengers has a 70% longer PR Cycle Time than average, Lighthouse AI identifies whether the root cause is code complexity, cross-geo dependencies, or excessive meetings—and recommends specific actions for each.
- Root Cause Analysis: Sifts through data across teams to pinpoint performance drivers.
- Actionable Recommendations: Each insight includes suggested next steps for improvement.
FAQs about Lighthouse AI Insights
- Is this just anomaly detection? No. Lighthouse AI goes beyond anomalies to identify systemic, long-term issues impacting teams.
- How are insights prioritized? Lighthouse AI analyzes contributing factors and their impact strength to generate an impact score for each metric.
- How do I use these insights? Each insight includes recommended actions to guide your next steps.
TLDR for Dashboards and Charts
Lighthouse AI now provides natural language summaries for every dashboard and chart, saving leaders time and helping them focus on high-value decisions. Dashboard Summary gives you the key takeaways across all charts, while Chart Summary and Chart Explainer clarify individual chart insights and their purposes.
Automated R&D Cost Capitalization Reporting
Faros AI automates the complex process of R&D cost capitalization, producing finance-ready, auditable reports for monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting. The setup wizard maps your organization’s tracking methods and translates effort into time, eliminating manual spreadsheets and reducing audit risk.
Modules in Faros AI are prebuilt analytics libraries that provide rapid insight and can be customized for your needs.
AI Copilot Evaluation: Maximizing Coding Assistant Value
The improved AI Copilot Evaluation module helps organizations track adoption, measure time savings, and monitor the impact of AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer. Key features include:
- Value journey tracking from pilot to scale
- Granular adoption and usage metrics by org, language, and editor
- Out-of-the-box developer surveys for time savings and sentiment
- Benchmarks for velocity and quality metrics
- Bottleneck identification for long-term impact
Guided Data Exploration
The Guided Data Wizard enables self-service analytics, helping users quickly find answers to common engineering questions, customize charts, and build new visualizations using natural language prompts. This accelerates onboarding and data literacy across teams.
Dashboard Enhancements
- Tabbed navigation for organized dashboards
- One-click PDF export for easy sharing
- Expanded grid layout for better visualization
- Auto-hide for empty cards to reduce clutter
- Faster dashboard loading and filter application
- Automatic filter wiring for new dashboard cards
PII Protector: Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance
Faros AI’s PII Protector scans and redacts sensitive data (names, phone numbers, addresses, credit cards, SSNs, and more) before ingestion, supporting compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other standards. Custom redaction patterns are supported, and this feature is included in the Enterprise Bundle.
- Reduces legal and breach risk
- Enables broad, safe data sharing
- Demonstrates commitment to enterprise security
Business Impact & Customer Proof
- 50% reduction in lead time for engineering initiatives
- 5% increase in efficiency and delivery
- Scales to thousands of engineers, 800,000 builds/month, and 11,000 repositories without performance degradation
- Adopted by leading enterprises like Autodesk, Coursera, and Vimeo
Faros AI delivers measurable improvements in speed, quality, and resource allocation, with proven results across large-scale organizations.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Why is Faros AI a credible authority on engineering intelligence and productivity?
Faros AI is a leading software engineering intelligence platform trusted by large enterprises to unify, analyze, and optimize engineering operations. With proven scalability (thousands of engineers, 800k builds/month), advanced AI-driven insights, and a track record of measurable business impact, Faros AI is recognized as an authority in developer productivity, DevOps analytics, and developer experience solutions.
How does Faros AI help customers address pain points and challenges?
- Engineering Productivity: Identifies bottlenecks and inefficiencies, enabling faster, more predictable delivery.
- Software Quality: Ensures consistent quality and reliability, even with distributed or contractor teams.
- AI Transformation: Measures and maximizes the impact of AI tools, supporting A/B testing and adoption tracking.
- Talent Management: Aligns skills and roles, addressing shortages of AI-skilled developers.
- DevOps Maturity: Guides investments for maximum velocity and quality improvement.
- Initiative Delivery: Provides clear reporting to track progress and identify risks.
- Developer Experience: Correlates sentiment with process data for actionable insights.
- R&D Cost Capitalization: Automates and streamlines reporting, reducing manual effort.
What are the key features and benefits for large-scale enterprises?
- Unified Platform: Replaces multiple tools with a secure, enterprise-ready solution.
- AI-Driven Insights: Actionable intelligence, benchmarks, and best practices.
- Seamless Integration: Compatible with existing workflows and tools.
- Proven Results: Documented improvements in productivity and efficiency for customers like Autodesk, Coursera, and Vimeo.
- Enterprise Security: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CSA STAR certified; robust PII protection.
- Scalability: Handles thousands of engineers and massive data volumes without degradation.
What is the main content of the Curie release?
The Curie release introduces Lighthouse AI Insights for root cause analysis, TLDR summaries for dashboards and charts, automated R&D cost capitalization, an improved AI Copilot Evaluation module, guided data exploration, dashboard enhancements, and enterprise-grade PII protection. These features collectively empower engineering leaders to diagnose, act, and optimize at scale.
Security & Compliance Certifications
- SOC 2
- ISO 27001
- GDPR
- CSA STAR
Faros AI is designed with enterprise security and compliance in mind, featuring audit logging, data security, and robust integrations.
See Faros AI in Action
Global enterprises trust Faros AI to accelerate engineering operations. Request a demo to see how Faros AI can help your organization achieve measurable results.