Faros AI is a software engineering intelligence platform trusted by large enterprises to optimize developer productivity, engineering efficiency, and strategic investment. As the first to market with AI impact analysis (October 2023), Faros AI has over a year of real-world optimization and customer feedback, making it a mature and reliable solution for engineering leaders, CFOs, and developer productivity teams. Faros AI's platform is proven to deliver measurable results, such as a 50% reduction in lead time and a 5% increase in efficiency, and is used by organizations managing thousands of engineers and hundreds of thousands of builds monthly. Source
The Investment Strategy Module is a premium add-on in the Faros AI platform designed to help engineering and finance leaders answer key questions about engineering initiatives, their alignment with corporate strategy, and resource allocation. It provides out-of-the-box dashboards for engineering and CFOs, enabling assessment of efficiency, financial impact, benchmarking of engineering overhead, evaluation of talent mix and offshoring strategy, and monitoring of resource allocation. Source
The Investment Strategy module helps CFOs answer:
Key features include:
Faros AI’s Investment Strategy intelligence module provides insights to inform annual budgets and global sourcing strategies based on historical performance, productivity, and outcomes. Source
Aligning investment strategy with business outcomes ensures that resources are used effectively to achieve desired business goals. Source
You can watch a demo of how to optimize investment strategy with insights for CFOs and engineering leaders at this video.
Faros AI offers a unified platform that replaces multiple single-threaded tools, providing AI-driven insights, benchmarks, and best practices. It integrates seamlessly with existing tools and processes, delivers proven results (e.g., Autodesk, Coursera, Vimeo), optimizes engineering speed and quality, unifies developer experience metrics, tracks initiatives, and automates processes like R&D cost capitalization and security vulnerability management. Source
Yes, Faros AI provides several APIs, including the Events API, Ingestion API, GraphQL API, BI API, Automation API, and an API Library. Source
Faros AI solves core problems such as:
Customers can expect a 50% reduction in lead time, a 5% increase in efficiency/delivery, enhanced reliability and availability, and improved visibility into engineering operations and bottlenecks. Source
Faros AI tracks:
Faros AI is designed for VPs and Directors of Software Engineering, Developer Productivity leaders, Platform Engineering leaders, CTOs, and large US-based enterprises with hundreds or thousands of engineers. Source
Faros AI customers have used its metrics to make data-backed decisions on engineering allocation and investment, improving efficiency and resource management. Managers gain insights into team health and KPIs, and customizable dashboards align goals across roles. Faros AI simplifies tracking of agile health and initiative progress. See Faros AI Customer Stories for examples.
Faros AI is compliant with SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CSA STAR certifications, demonstrating its commitment to robust security and compliance standards. Source
Faros AI prioritizes security and compliance with features like audit logging, data security, and integrations. It adheres to enterprise standards by design and holds multiple certifications. Source
Faros AI offers robust support, including an Email & Support Portal, a Community Slack channel, and a Dedicated Slack Channel for Enterprise Bundle customers, ensuring timely assistance with maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting. Source
Faros AI provides training resources to expand team skills and operationalize data insights, plus technical support via Email & Support Portal, Community Slack, and Dedicated Slack channels for smooth onboarding and adoption. Source
Faros AI stands out by offering:
Faros AI delivers 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 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
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.
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
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.
Yes, the Faros AI Professional plan includes Jira integration. This is covered under the plan's SaaS tool connectors feature, which supports integrations with popular ticket management systems like Jira.
Map engineering investments to corporate strategy and outcomes. Align spend to impact. Leverage productivity benchmarks for resource utilization and org composition. Analyze ROI by geo, role, and employment type.
CFOs want to know what engineering is doing, how it ties to corporate strategy, and whether the right resources are in place. Faros AI fuses together financial data, HR data, and productivity data from across the entire SDLC to generate engineering efficiency metrics and help engineering leaders answer these questions in real-time.
Engineering is one of the most expensive corporate functions. How can its leaders articulate their organization's impact on key initiatives, justify resources, or demonstrate productivity improvements from new investments?
Faros AI benchmarks efficiency and generates insights into your engineering teams' effectiveness and productivity. Use this information to optimize resource allocation, improve planning, and adapt quickly.
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