Frequently Asked Questions

Faros AI Platform Overview & Authority

Why is Faros AI considered a credible authority on software engineering intelligence and developer productivity?

Faros AI is recognized as a leader in software engineering intelligence, developer productivity insights, and developer experience solutions. The platform is trusted by large enterprises and engineering leaders for its scientific approach to measuring and improving productivity, quality, and developer satisfaction. Faros AI was first to market with AI impact analysis in October 2023, has proven real-world optimization, and holds industry certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CSA STAR (source). Its platform is enterprise-ready, scalable, and integrates with thousands of engineers and repositories, making it a reliable choice for organizations seeking actionable insights and measurable improvements.

What is the primary purpose of Faros AI?

Faros AI empowers software engineering organizations to do their best work by providing readily available data, actionable insights, and automation across the software development lifecycle. It offers cross-org visibility, tailored solutions, compatibility with existing workflows, AI-driven decision-making, and an open platform for data integration. (source)

Features & Capabilities

What are the key capabilities and benefits of Faros AI?

Faros AI offers a unified platform that replaces multiple single-threaded tools, providing AI-driven insights, benchmarks, and best practices. Key benefits include seamless integration with existing tools, proven results for customers like Autodesk, Coursera, and Vimeo, engineering optimization, unified developer experience metrics, initiative tracking, and automation for processes such as R&D cost capitalization and security vulnerability management. (source)

What APIs does Faros AI provide?

Faros AI provides several APIs, including the Events API, Ingestion API, GraphQL API, BI API, Automation API, and an API Library, enabling flexible integration and data access. (Source: Faros Sales Deck Mar2024.pptx)

What security and compliance certifications does Faros AI have?

Faros AI is compliant with SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CSA STAR certifications, demonstrating its commitment to robust security and compliance standards. (source)

How does Faros AI ensure product security and compliance?

Faros AI prioritizes security and compliance with features such as audit logging, data security, and integrations. It adheres to enterprise standards by design and maintains certifications like SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CSA STAR. (source)

Pain Points & Solutions

What problems does Faros AI solve for engineering organizations?

Faros AI addresses core problems such as engineering productivity, software quality, AI transformation, talent management, DevOps maturity, initiative delivery, developer experience, and R&D cost capitalization. It identifies bottlenecks, ensures consistent quality, measures AI tool impact, aligns skills, guides strategic investments, provides clear reporting, correlates sentiment with process data, and automates cost capitalization. (Source: manual)

What business impact can customers expect from using Faros AI?

Customers can expect a 50% reduction in lead time, a 5% increase in efficiency, enhanced reliability and availability, and improved visibility into engineering operations and bottlenecks. These results accelerate time-to-market, improve resource allocation, and ensure high-quality products and services. (Source: Use Cases for Salespeak Training.pptx)

What KPIs and metrics does Faros AI use to address pain points?

Faros AI tracks DORA metrics (Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, MTTR, CFR), team health, tech debt, software quality, PR insights, AI adoption, time savings, talent management, onboarding, initiative tracking (timelines, cost, risks), developer sentiment, and R&D cost automation. (Source: manual)

Use Cases & Customer Success

Who is the target audience for Faros AI?

Faros AI is designed for VPs and Directors of Software Engineering, Developer Productivity leaders, Platform Engineering leaders, CTOs, and typically large US-based enterprises with hundreds or thousands of engineers. (Source: manual)

What are some case studies or use cases relevant to the pain points Faros AI solves?

Faros AI has enabled customers to make data-backed decisions on engineering allocation and investment, improve team health and progress visibility, align metrics across roles, and simplify tracking of agile health and initiative progress. Explore detailed examples and customer stories at Faros AI Customer Stories.

Product Releases & Innovations

What is the Faros AI Gödel Release and how does it benefit engineering managers?

The Gödel Release is a breakthrough for engineering leaders, transitioning from visibility to actionable insights. It consolidates multiple dashboards into smart summaries and delivers insights directly to users, empowering managers with real-time, AI-enhanced coaching and developer-centric intelligence. (source)

What is new in the Gödel Release regarding AI-powered survey intelligence?

The Gödel Release introduces AI-powered survey intelligence, turning qualitative survey responses into actionable insights. Features include AI-generated key takeaways, team-specific summaries, word clouds to highlight recurring themes, and recommended next steps powered by AI. (source)

Competition & Differentiation

How does Faros AI compare to DX, Jellyfish, LinearB, and Opsera?

Faros AI stands out by offering mature AI impact analysis, scientific causal analytics, active adoption support, end-to-end tracking, flexible customization, and enterprise-grade compliance. Competitors like DX, Jellyfish, LinearB, and Opsera provide surface-level correlations, passive dashboards, limited metrics, and are often SMB-focused. Faros AI delivers actionable insights, supports complex team structures, and integrates with the entire SDLC, making it ideal for large enterprises. (source)

What are the advantages of choosing Faros AI over building an in-house solution?

Faros AI offers robust out-of-the-box features, deep customization, and proven scalability, saving organizations time and resources compared to custom builds. Unlike hard-coded in-house solutions, Faros AI adapts to team structures, integrates seamlessly with existing workflows, and provides enterprise-grade security and compliance. Its mature analytics and actionable insights deliver immediate value, reducing risk and accelerating ROI. Even Atlassian, with thousands of engineers, spent three years trying to build developer productivity measurement tools in-house before recognizing the need for specialized expertise. (Source: manual)

Support & Implementation

What customer service or support is available to Faros AI customers?

Faros AI provides robust support options, including an Email & Support Portal, a Community Slack channel, and a Dedicated Slack Channel for Enterprise Bundle customers. These resources ensure timely assistance with maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting. (source)

What training and technical support is available to help customers get started with Faros AI?

Faros AI offers training resources to expand team skills and operationalize data insights, along with technical support via Email & Support Portal, Community Slack, and Dedicated Slack channels for Enterprise Bundle customers. These resources ensure smooth onboarding, troubleshooting, and effective adoption. (source)

Blog & Resources

Does Faros AI have a blog?

Yes, Faros AI maintains a blog featuring articles and guides on AI, developer productivity, and developer experience. (Read the blog)

What topics are covered in the Faros AI blog?

The blog covers AI, developer productivity, developer experience, best practices, customer stories, product updates, guides, and news. (source)

Where can I find the latest news about Faros AI?

Visit the News Blog for the latest updates on Faros AI.

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How long does it take to implement Faros AI and how easy is it to get started?

Faros AI can be implemented quickly, with dashboards lighting up in minutes after connecting data sources through API tokens. Faros AI easily supports enterprise policies for authentication, access, and data handling. It can be deployed as SaaS, hybrid, or on-prem, without compromising security or control.

What resources do customers need to get started with Faros AI?

Faros AI can be deployed as SaaS, hybrid, or on-prem. Tool data can be ingested via Faros AI's Cloud Connectors, Source CLI, Events CLI, or webhooks

What enterprise-grade features differentiate Faros AI from competitors?

Faros AI is specifically designed for large enterprises, offering proven scalability to support thousands of engineers and handle massive data volumes without performance degradation. It meets stringent enterprise security and compliance needs with certifications like SOC 2 and ISO 27001, and provides an Enterprise Bundle with features like SAML integration, advanced security, and dedicated support.

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Faros AI Gödel Release: Insights that Empower Engineering Managers

The Faros AI Gödel Release represents a breakthrough in how engineering leaders understand, guide, and empower their teams.

Naomi Lurie
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Faros AI Gödel Release: Insights that empower engineering managers

In the spirit of Kurt Gödel’s pioneering work on logic and systems, the Faros AI Gödel Release represents a breakthrough in how engineering leaders understand, guide, and empower their teams. We’ve moved from visibility to insight, from multiple dashboards to smart summaries, and from dashboards you visit to insights that come to you.

Faros AI Assistant, wherever you work

We’ve always believed that insights should come to you—not the other way around. With the Gödel Release, we’re introducing Faros AI Assistant, a powerful new natural language assistant that lets you talk directly to your engineering data, wherever you already work.

Whether you’re coding in your IDE, checking in via Slack, or reviewing metrics in Faros AI, the Faros AI Assistant is there with answers—fast, contextual, and grounded in data from Jira, GitHub, and over 100 integrated tools.

No digging. No dashboards. No delay. Just ask Faros AI.

Animated gif of users chatting with the Faros AI Assistant on Slack
The Faros AI Assistant helps developers and engineering leaders get instant answers

For Developers: Stay in Flow with Answers in Your IDE

The Faros AI Assistant  is built into GitHub Copilot Chat, so developers can stay focused and get the context they need—without ever leaving their editor. It answers questions in real time by pulling relevant data from your engineering systems.

Example questions developers can ask:

  • “Who last touched this file?”
  • “Which PRs are currently assigned to me for review?”
  • “Who contributed to this repo in the last month?”
  • “Show me the tickets about mobile app crashing”

By reducing context switching, the Faros AI Assistant keeps productivity high and interruptions low.

Screenshot of Faros AI Assistant answering a developer's question within Copilot Chat
Faros AI Assistant is available in all IDEs that support GitHub Copilot Extensions

Faros AI Assistant can be leveraged in all IDEs that currently support GitHub Copilot Extensions, including Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm, and GitHub.com. Download the Faros AI Assistant extension from the GitHub Marketplace.

Not using GitHub Copilot? If your developers are using other coding assistants like Tabnine, Codeium, and Amazon Q ,or AI code editors such as Cursor or Windsurf, they can ask the same questions directly in Slack!

For Engineering Managers: Instant visibility, right in Slack

Managing engineering teams just got easier. The Faros AI Assistant lives in Slack, providing instant visibility into team health, delivery trends, incidents, and more—without pinging anyone or digging through spreadsheets.

Example questions managers can ask:

  • “What’s our average cycle time for the last 3 sprints?”
  • “How many story points have we completed this quarter?”
  • “Show me the open Sev1 incidents for this repo”
  • “List the security vulnerabilities due this month, ordered by due date and severity”

The Faros AI Assistant turns natural language into action-ready insight, right where your team communicates.

An engineering manager chats with the Faros AI Assistant on Slack
The Faros AI Assistant is available in Slack, Teams, and Faros AI

For Engineering Leaders: Understand productivity, delivery & tooling impact

Engineering leaders don’t need to wait for quarterly reviews to know how things are going. The Faros AI Assistant delivers answers about delivery, performance, and tooling ROI—on demand, in plain English.

Example questions leaders can ask:

  • “What was completed last week on project Phoenix?”
  • “What is the impact of GitHub Copilot on velocity and quality?”
  • “Which initiatives are projected to be delivered late?”
  • “Summarize comments received in our latest developer survey”

The Faros AI Assistant is your on-demand advisor for strategic decision-making—empowering you to lead with data, not assumptions.

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Users can chat with the Faros AI Assistant for instant answers about delivery, productivity and progress

Just ask Faros AI

The Faros AI Assistant is available today across the Faros AI platform, Slack, Teams, and GitHub Copilot Chat (get the extension).

Wherever work happens, Faros AI is there—with the answers you need to stay in flow, lead with confidence, and make smarter decisions.

No tool-switching. No guessing. Just Ask Faros AI. 

One place. All the answers. Now with everything that matters.

Engineering managers no longer need to jump between tools to understand what’s happening across their teams. That’s right, the days of hopping from report to report and manually stitching together insights are over! 

Faros AI unifies data across tools, layers in intelligence, and gives engineering managers the answers they need—in one place. We synthesize the most important updates for your team into a single, cohesive view of velocity, quality, sentiment, collaboration, and execution.

Screenshot of Engineering Productivity dashboard with AI insights across tabbed dashboards covering velocity, collaboration, execution (scum or kanban), flow and sentiment
Faros AI provides a one-stop-shop for engineering managers with AI summarization of key takeaways

With these combined insights, you can coach, mentor, and problem-solve with context and clarity.

But Gödel goes further than just visibility. We’re now pushing enriched, AI-driven insights right to you when they matter most. 

Velocity: Understand how fast you’re moving

Get a complete view of how your team delivers—across planning, coding, and reviewing.

  • Lead time and PR cycle time, inclusive of cycle breakdowns
  • Analysis by team, repo, app, and board
  • Flow benchmarks and context-switching rates
  • Threshold-based alerting for PR cycle time, developer focus time, and more

Quality: See where software integrity is at risk

Monitor the health of your codebase and how quickly your team can recover from issues.

  • Code and test coverage, code smells
  • Change failure rate (CFR), mean and median time to resolve (MTTR)
  • Deployment frequency and success rates
  • Incident and vulnerability SLO tracking and reminders

Collaboration: Spot bottlenecks and foster healthy review culture

Ensure your team is working together efficiently and equitably across geographies and teams.

  • Review times and reviewer workload distribution
  • Cross-team and cross-geo dependencies
  • Handoff friction and reviewer bottlenecks
  • Review SLA tracking and nudges

Execution: Track progress, alignment, and delivery

Evaluate how well your team is executing against the plan—and where things are slipping. Get tailored views for Scrum vs. Kanban.

  • Epic progress vs. commitment
  • Agile health metrics and delivery cadences
  • Say/do ratios and unplanned work
  • Work allocation by initiative or category
  • ‘Delivery at risk’ alerts

Sentiment: Hear what the data can’t say alone

Pair quantitative telemetry with qualitative feedback to unlock powerful insights into how your team feels and works.

  • Developer Experience (DevEx) surveys with built-in templates
  • Survey administration and reminders to ensure high response rates
  • Triggered surveys based on events (e.g., nth PR, Copilot usage)
  • Survey analysis trended across teams, time, and org structure
  • Correlation between sentiment and team performance

New in Gödel: AI-Powered Survey Intelligence

We’re now turning qualitative survey responses into leadership-ready insights.

  • AI-generated key takeaways and team-specific summaries
  • Talk tracks to support reporting and storytelling
  • Word clouds to surface recurring themes instantly
  • Recommended next steps powered by AI
A screenshot from Faros AI's AI-generated survey summary and word cloud
Example of an AI-generated survey summary and word cloud on Faros AI

Insights That Find You

Daily and weekly digests now surface the “what you need to know”—before you even think to ask. Whether it’s a decline in velocity, an epic slipping behind, or an uptick in unplanned work, Faros AI brings it to your Slack, Teams or email so you can act faster.

No more dashboard spelunking. Just smart signals, delivered to your inbox or workspace.

Slack screenshot of the Faros AI Assistant channel delivering the apps team their weekly engineering summary report
Example of a weekly digest sent to a team's Slack channel

Still the best AI Impact solution on the market

Engineering teams everywhere are racing to understand the real value of AI coding assistants. But understanding usage isn’t enough—you need to know if it's actually making your team faster, better, and happier.

Faros AI is still the only platform that offers a complete solution for understanding the impact of AI coding assistants, and Gödel cements our leadership with these new and unmatched capabilities:

Why We’re Still #1

  • Causation, not just correlation: Our ML-based analytics determine whether Copilot and similar tools actually improve quality, velocity, and flow—not just if they’re being used.
  • Guided, not passive: Faros AI doesn’t just observe—it guides your AI adoption with team-specific insights and recommendations.
  • Holistic, not siloed: We connect AI coding assistant use to downstream outcomes like code quality, security, and developer satisfaction.
  • Supports all coding assistants and AI code editors: Beyond GitHub Copilot, we support all major coding assistants, including Codeium, Tabnine, and Amazon Q, as well as AI code editors such as Cursor and Windsurf - even when these tools don’t expose APIs.
  • Governance: Stay on top of AI augmented codebases with oversight and automated guardrails. Track AI-generated code using our IDE extensions, which are available for VS Code, IntelliJ, and other major IDEs. 
  • Guardrails: Turn on our prebuilt workflows to ensure AI-generated code aligns with team standards and security policies.
  • Speed to value: Drop in your GitHub token and start seeing Copilot metrics—no heavy lift required.
  • Supports all coding assistants and AI code editors: Beyond GitHub Copilot, we support all major coding assistants, including Codeium, Tabnine, and Amazon Q, as well as AI code editors such as Cursor and Windsurf - even when these tools don’t expose APIs.

By contrast, other vendors offer only surface-level dashboards:

  • Basic Copilot API usage; no actionable ROI analysis.
  • A lightweight offering with limited metrics focused solely on throughput.
  • Anecdotal metrics with no causal insights.

If you want to maximize ROI from AI coding assistants, Faros AI is still the only way to do it. Explore the solution here.

Now available on Azure with MACC

Faros AI is now deployable via Microsoft Azure and eligible for Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC), making enterprise procurement faster, simpler, and budget-friendly. Whether you're an Azure-native org or just getting started, Faros meets you where you are.

Learn more here.

The Gödel era of engineering intelligence

Faros AI Gödel isn’t just an update—it’s a new operating model for engineering leadership. Real-time insight. AI-enhanced coaching. Developer-centric intelligence. All in one place.

It’s everything a manager needs, finally working together.

To schedule a demo with an expert, contact us.

Naomi Lurie

Naomi Lurie

Naomi is head of product marketing at Faros AI.

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