New research: Leading indicators of AI coding agent effectiveness
New research: Leading indicators of AI coding agent effectiveness
Span vs. Faros:
Engineering intelligence without the data project
Faros gives enterprises a flexible platform for custom analytics. Span turns fragmented engineering activity into a working intelligence system, with prompt-to-prod evidence behind every answer. See why modern engineering teams are switching to Span.
Why Span
A working intelligence system for engineering leaders
A working intelligence system for engineering leaders
Span turns engineering data into trusted answers and next steps, without making customers design and maintain the analytics layer themselves.
Span turns engineering data into trusted answers and next steps, without making customers design and maintain the analytics layer themselves.
Prove and improve AI impact
Connect agent traces and spend to retained code, delivery, quality, and cost. Surface the workflow improvements and environment fixes that improve results.
Get to a trusted decision faster
Start with a predefined engineering work model and ready-to-use workflows.
Prompt-to-prod visibility
Follow the complete agent session into the code and PR it produced, then inspect what happened through review and production.
Verify every result
Drill from any metric or evaluation into the underlying sessions, code, PRs, and tickets. Keep important conclusions grounded in evidence.
Reconstruct work from the work itself
Use code and activity to recover workstreams and relationships when source systems are incomplete. Depend less on customer-built mappings.
Support recurring engineering decisions
Use the same connected evidence for AI impact and investment decisions, without rebuilding the data model for every new question.
Prove and improve AI impact
Connect agent traces and spend to retained code, delivery, quality, and cost. Surface the workflow improvements and environment fixes that improve results.
Prompt-to-prod visibility
Follow the complete agent session into the code and PR it produced, then inspect what happened through review and production.
Reconstruct work from the work itself
Use code and activity to recover workstreams and relationships when source systems are incomplete. Depend less on customer-built mappings.
Get to a trusted decision faster
Start with a predefined engineering work model and ready-to-use workflows.
Verify every result
Drill from any metric or evaluation into the underlying sessions, code, PRs, and tickets. Keep important conclusions grounded in evidence.
Support recurring engineering decisions
Use the same connected evidence for AI impact and investment decisions, without rebuilding the data model for every new question.
Prove and improve AI impact
Connect agent traces and spend to retained code, delivery, quality, and cost. Surface the workflow improvements and environment fixes that improve results.
Reconstruct work from the work itself
Use code and activity to recover workstreams and relationships when source systems are incomplete. Depend less on customer-built mappings.
Verify every result
Drill from any metric or evaluation into the underlying sessions, code, PRs, and tickets. Keep important conclusions grounded in evidence.
Prompt-to-prod visibility
Follow the complete agent session into the code and PR it produced, then inspect what happened through review and production.
Get to a trusted decision faster
Start with a predefined engineering work model and ready-to-use workflows.
Support recurring engineering decisions
Use the same connected evidence for AI impact and investment decisions, without rebuilding the data model for every new question.
Detailed Comparison
How Span stacks up against Faros
How Span stacks up against Faros
Faros gives experts a configurable analytics platform. Span gives leaders a working intelligence system with less customer-owned modeling and more inspectable evidence.
Faros gives experts a configurable analytics platform. Span gives leaders a working intelligence system with less customer-owned modeling and more inspectable evidence.
CAPABILITIES
Time to a trusted decision
Time to a trusted decision
Full prompt-to-prod evidence
Full prompt-to-prod evidence
Agent effectiveness improvement
Agent effectiveness improvement
Verifiable AI attribution
Verifiable AI attribution
Semantic work reconstruction
Semantic work reconstruction
Ongoing operating burden
Ongoing operating burden
Role-ready intelligence
Role-ready intelligence
Audit-ready DevFinOps
Audit-ready DevFinOps
Start with a ready-made model of engineering work
Start with a ready-made model of engineering work
Connect full agent sessions to code, PRs, and outcomes
Connect full agent sessions to code, PRs, and outcomes
Evaluate agent behavior and surface grounded environment fixes
Evaluate agent behavior and surface grounded environment fixes
Trace AI-assisted code back to the producing session
Trace AI-assisted code back to the producing session
Infer workstreams from code and incomplete source records
Infer workstreams from code and incomplete source records
Reduce manual mapping as teams and work change
Reduce manual mapping as teams and work change
Give leaders ready answers without custom-built views
Give leaders ready answers without custom-built views
Automate capitalization with review-ready supporting evidence
Automate capitalization with review-ready supporting evidence
faros
Configure models and views before insights become repeatable
Configure models and views before insights become repeatable
Shows session signals without clear trace-to-code provenance
Shows session signals without clear trace-to-code provenance
Relies on aggregate analysis without task-level evidence
Relies on aggregate analysis without task-level evidence
Reports AI-code percentages without documented attribution methodology
Reports AI-code percentages without documented attribution methodology
Depends more on structured records and customer mappings
Depends more on structured records and customer mappings
Maintain custom mappings, connections, and definitions over time
Maintain custom mappings, connections, and definitions over time
Requires central experts to configure and interpret views
Requires central experts to configure and interpret views
Offers capitalization with less public audit proof
Offers capitalization with less public audit proof
The Span Advantage
Why teams choose Span over Faros
Why teams choose Span over Faros
01
Less to build before you can act
Faros provides the components for a custom analytics system. Span starts with a working model of engineering, reducing the setup and interpretation work customers must own.
04
Know why AI performance differs
Faros can estimate system-level impact. Span adds task-level evidence that reveals how developers direct agents, where verification breaks down, and which environment fixes will help.
02
Get to the trusted decision faster
Fast ingestion is only the beginning. Span turns fragmented activity into a defensible answer leaders can use without first designing the schema or building the view.
05
Understand the work, not just the systems
Faros normalizes where work is recorded. Span also infers the meaning and relationships of the work itself, recovering context that was never cleanly represented in source systems.
03
Evidence from session to outcome
Follow AI-assisted work from the complete agent session into the code and PR, then inspect what happened downstream. Every conclusion stays connected to the underlying work.
06
Built to spread beyond the central team
Span gives each level of the organization role-ready answers without requiring a central analyst to configure every view. That makes the system easier to use repeatedly across engineering.
01
Less to build before you can act
Faros provides the components for a custom analytics system. Span starts with a working model of engineering, reducing the setup and interpretation work customers must own.
02
Get to the trusted decision faster
Fast ingestion is only the beginning. Span turns fragmented activity into a defensible answer leaders can use without first designing the schema or building the view.
03
Evidence from session to outcome
Follow AI-assisted work from the complete agent session into the code and PR, then inspect what happened downstream. Every conclusion stays connected to the underlying work.
04
Know why AI performance differs
Faros can estimate system-level impact. Span adds task-level evidence that reveals how developers direct agents, where verification breaks down, and which environment fixes will help.
05
Understand the work, not just the systems
Faros normalizes where work is recorded. Span also infers the meaning and relationships of the work itself, recovering context that was never cleanly represented in source systems.
06
Built to spread beyond the central team
Span gives each level of the organization role-ready answers without requiring a central analyst to configure every view. That makes the system easier to use repeatedly across engineering.
01
Less to build before you can act
Faros provides the components for a custom analytics system. Span starts with a working model of engineering, reducing the setup and interpretation work customers must own.
03
Evidence from session to outcome
Follow AI-assisted work from the complete agent session into the code and PR, then inspect what happened downstream. Every conclusion stays connected to the underlying work.
05
Understand the work, not just the systems
Faros normalizes where work is recorded. Span also infers the meaning and relationships of the work itself, recovering context that was never cleanly represented in source systems.
02
Get to the trusted decision faster
Fast ingestion is only the beginning. Span turns fragmented activity into a defensible answer leaders can use without first designing the schema or building the view.
04
Know why AI performance differs
Faros can estimate system-level impact. Span adds task-level evidence that reveals how developers direct agents, where verification breaks down, and which environment fixes will help.
06
Built to spread beyond the central team
Span gives each level of the organization role-ready answers without requiring a central analyst to configure every view. That makes the system easier to use repeatedly across engineering.
Glossgenius
glossgenius.com
"Span helps us take a more data-driven approach to velocity and gives every team and engineer visibility into how they can improve. We quickly moved the needle by giving teams insight into their working patterns and their own maker time."
Brady Allchin
VP of Engineering
Classpass
classpass.com
"We looked at other products, but ultimately chose Span. It came down to the magic and usability. Span just feels built by engineers who understand how teams actually work."
Henrique Boregio
Director of Engineering
Glossgenius
glossgenius.com
"Span helps us take a more data-driven approach to velocity and gives every team and engineer visibility into how they can improve. We quickly moved the needle by giving teams insight into their working patterns and their own maker time."
Brady Allchin
VP of Engineering
Classpass
classpass.com
"We looked at other products, but ultimately chose Span. It came down to the magic and usability. Span just feels built by engineers who understand how teams actually work."
Henrique Boregio
Director of Engineering
Transparent, predictable pricing
Transparent, predictable pricing
No negotiation games, hidden costs, or surprises.
No negotiation games, hidden costs, or surprises.
$45
contributor/mo
billed annually
Glossgenius
glossgenius.com
"Span helps us take a more data-driven approach to velocity and gives every team and engineer visibility into how they can improve. We quickly moved the needle by giving teams insight into their working patterns and their own maker time."
Brady Allchin
VP of Engineering
Classpass
classpass.com
"We looked at other products, but ultimately chose Span. It came down to the magic and usability. Span just feels built by engineers who understand how teams actually work."
Henrique Boregio
Director of Engineering
Everything you need to unlock engineering excellence
Everything you need to unlock engineering excellence