AI ENGINEERING REPORT 2026
acceleration whiplash
The definitive data on AI's engineering impact. What's working, what's breaking, and what leaders need to do next.
- Engineering throughput is up
- Bugs, incidents, and rework are rising faster
- Two years of data from 22,000 developers across 4,000 teams
Misalignment with the business costs you time, money, and trust
Faros provides centralized visibility into initiative progress and resource allocation to help you manage dependencies, inform quarterly planning, and perfectly align resources with business outcomes.
Improve stakeholder visibility
Replace spreadsheets with live dashboards that cover progress, timelines, and budgets.
Drive critical projects to success
Monitor the progress of engineering initiatives without chasing down information.
Align resources to outcomes
Leverage a centralized snapshot of portfolio outcomes to ensure effective resource deployment.
Insights to bridge the execution gap
Automate reporting with real-time data
Build a complete picture without wasting hours on meetings and spreadsheets.
- Replace manual reporting with centralized visibility into initiative progress generated directly from your tools' data.
- Leverage a single source of truth for quarterly commitment tracking.
- Stay informed of initiative health, including budget, delivery dates, and work progress.
- Confidently communicate project status to leadership and stakeholders.
Keep critical work on track
Monitor the progress of strategic deliverables and ensure on-time delivery.
- See the progress of every initiative, project, feature, and epic.
- Forecast delivery timelines and get alerted about predicted budget overruns and emerging delays.
- Understand which teams are working on each initiative.
- Easily track completed and remaining work.
Monitor portfolio investments and capacity allocation
Monitor how resources are allocated across initiatives, products, teams, and geographies.
- Measure cumulative time savings and understand where they’re being reinvested (velocity, quality, tech debt, upskilling, etc.).
- Review each product's outcome-based metrics as determined by your business strategy.
- Identify areas where effort is misaligned to business priorities with automatic work categorization and attribution.
Align AI initiatives with outcomes
Context changes everything.
See the platform in action.
Context for the work you do every day
Engineering context powers the use cases that help your organization transform as fast as AI evolves.