Faros Is Named Microsoft Partner of the Year 2025

We are pleased to share that Faros has won the 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award in the category of Microsoft for Startups.

This award recognizes Faros's outstanding innovation and leadership in driving digital transformation for enterprise engineering organizations through cutting-edge solutions built on Microsoft technology. Honorees were chosen from more than 4,600 nominations across more than 100 countries.

"This recognition reflects the power of our collaboration to solve one of enterprise software development's biggest challenges: measuring AI productivity gains," said Vitaly Gordon, Co-Founder and CEO at Faros.

"Together, we're providing software engineering organizations with critical visibility and insights to improve efficiency and assess AI impact. For companies running on Azure and using GitHub Copilot, Faros delivers a single source of truth for performance measurement. Microsoft has been an extraordinary ally, amplifying our mission and connecting us with enterprise leaders representing over 500,000 engineers."

The Microsoft for Startups Partner of the Year award recognizes a B2B startup organization that built and launched an innovative and unique solution leveraging Microsoft technology. Additionally, the startup stands out above the rest in their partnership with Microsoft by demonstrating consistent, high-quality engagements through the Microsoft for Startups program and demonstrating value to the Microsoft ecosystem.

Why This Recognition Matters: The AI Measurement Challenge

This award comes at a critical time for enterprise software development. At GitHub Universe 2025 (October 28–29), nearly every session focused on how AI is reshaping software development and expanding what's possible. The message was clear: AI coding tools are rapidly evolving from simple assistants to autonomous agents that can write specifications, validate code, and execute complex development tasks.

But there's a gap between the exciting demos on stage and what's happening inside most companies. While AI tools promise faster development, many engineering leaders struggle to prove their value or understand their real impact. Two years after GitHub Copilot's launch, most organizations still lack the visibility they need to make smart decisions about AI investments.

This creates a serious business risk. Companies without clear AI measurement are vulnerable to being outpaced by competitors who can effectively harness AI's potential. Microsoft's recognition of Faros highlights the critical importance of solving this measurement challenge.

"Microsoft's recognition validates what we're seeing across our mutual enterprise clients. Organizations that can measure and optimize their AI investments are the ones actually achieving transformation, not just adoption," notes Dan Balter, Head of Partnerships at Faros.

The Acceleration Whiplash: why measurement is the difference

The AI Engineering Report 2026 - The Acceleration Whiplash from Faros reveals a pattern every engineering leader needs to understand. Across 22,000 developers and more than 4,000 teams, AI is delivering real business value: epics completed per developer are up 66%, and organizations are finally shipping meaningful product capabilities at a pace that was not possible before. The throughput gains are not a perception. They are in the data.

But so is something else. For every code change merged, the probability of a production incident has more than tripled. Bugs per developer are up 54%. 31% more code is reaching production with no review at all. AI has flooded engineering systems built around human-paced development with more output than those systems were designed to absorb. The acceleration is real. So is the whiplash.

What separates the organizations navigating this successfully from those accumulating risk they cannot yet see is visibility: granular, real-time measurement across the full software delivery lifecycle, from the moment a task is created to the moment code reaches production. Not dashboards built for a pre-AI world, but metrics that can be sliced, correlated, and interrogated as AI changes what engineering teams produce and how they produce it.

How Faros Helps Enterprises Accelerate AI Transformation

Our Microsoft partnership validates an approach that's already helping enterprise engineering teams maximize their AI investments:

Making AI Tools Actually Work

Companies are adopting AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Cursor to help developers write code faster. But many Chief AI Officers find these tools don't always deliver promised results. Faros shows exactly how AI tools are being used and whether they're helping. We track everything from adoption rates to impacts on velocity, quality, and reliability, helping companies identify which teams get the most value from AI and which need more support.

Proving AI Investment Returns

AI Transformation Leaders need to show that spending on AI tools pays off. Faros measures real AI impact on software development, identifying which tools work best, which models are most cost-effective, and which options shouldn't be scaled. We also track developer experience to ensure AI tools remove friction from daily workflows rather than adding complexity. With clear data and reports, leaders can prove their strategies work and secure approval for larger AI investments.

Maintaining Quality and Control

Engineering Executives want AI's speed benefits without losing control over code quality and security. Faros provides both: faster development through AI plus essential oversight. We monitor how much code AI generates, where it's concentrated, and how much rework it creates. This allows engineering leaders to confidently deploy AI across their organization while maintaining high standards for quality and security.

Watch a brief demo of the AI Transformation solution from Faros.

Moving Forward with Confidence

For AI leaders, the current AI boom represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to redefine software development. But it's easy to feel behind, caught between the urgency to move fast and the responsibility to build thoughtfully and sustainably.

Our Microsoft Partnership of the Year award validates an approach that helps companies move faster with confidence:

• Get clarity on your current AI impact. We measure exactly how your AI tools perform across teams, identify unused licenses, and show where AI delivers value versus creating bottlenecks.
• Discover your biggest opportunities. We benchmark your organization against industry leaders, pinpoint your highest-performing internal teams, and quantify the ROI of specific interventions.
• Execute a 90-day action plan. We build concrete roadmaps with team-specific strategies, measurable milestones, and KPIs that connect AI-enabled engineering performance to real business outcomes.

Microsoft's recognition reinforces what we've always believed: successful AI transformation requires more than just adopting new tools. It requires the visibility and insights to make those tools truly transformative.

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