Faros Gödel Release: Insights that empower engineering managers
In the spirit of Kurt Gödel’s pioneering work on logic and systems, the Faros 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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Just ask Faros
The Faros AI Assistant is available today across the Faros platform, Slack, Teams, and GitHub Copilot Chat (get the extension).
Wherever work happens, Faros 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.
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 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.
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
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 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.
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 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 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 is still the only way to do it. Explore the solution here.
Now available on Azure with MACC
Faros 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.
The Gödel era of engineering intelligence
Faros 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.
