# The Challenge

## Manual cost capitalization drains valuable time from your managers

While capitalizing software development costs is great for financial statements, it's pure administrative overhead for engineering managers, product managers, and FP&A teams. Faros turns your daily workflow data into accurate, audit-ready reports without any manual intervention.

### Auto-generate periodic reports

Leverage digital footprints to calculate the time spent on eligible activities and generate the report.

### Stay informed with real-time tracking

View live dashboards for spot-checks and midpoint reviews. Filter by initiative, epic, or employee.

### Streamline the capitalization process

Get clear audit trails and detailed reports on eligible work, without human intervention.

# 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

[get the report](https://www.faros.ai/research/ai-acceleration-whiplash)

### "The best part about using Faros is the time saved and the value back. We have key data at our fingertips in an easy-to-use, unified platform."

Matt Fisher

VP Product Engineering

, Vimeo

[View case study](https://www.faros.ai/blog/customer-stories-vimeo)

# Our solution

## Capitalization reporting, fully automated

### Save time and effort for engineering leaders

Finance leaders admit that report preparation is poor use of engineering managers' time. Let's give the time back.

- Leverage digital footprints to tabulate eligible activities for capitalizing software development costs.
- Easily filter reports to a specific team, employee, or time frame.
- Get real-time breakdowns by initiative and epic.
- View reports online and easily export them to a separate sheet for finance.

### Improve accuracy, transparency, and defensibility

Ensure software capitalization rules are applied correctly and consistently.

- Eliminate subjective interpretation by using transparent and consistent calculations.
- Reduce the risk of non-compliance penalties or fines.
- Leverage clear audit trails and detailed reports.

### Align on a repeatable and scalable solution

Onboard new managers with minimal training.

- Quickly get new engineering and product managers up an running on software capitalization.
- Reduce the oversight, monitoring, and re-training required by FP&A.
- Automatically handle real-world complexities like overlapping tasks, poor data hygiene, and divergent workflows.

# Get Started

## Automate software cost capitalization

Let AI do the work.

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