The AI chief of staff
for engineering leaders.
Engineering management is the last instrument-free job in tech. Sales got Salesforce. Marketing got HubSpot. Engineering managers got Jira filters. Merov AI is the intelligence layer that should have existed a decade ago.
Why now
Five forces converging on the same opportunity at the same time.
AI inference is finally cheap and fast enough
Deep cross-system reasoning in the time it takes to ask a question. The technical floor for the product we're building only existed for the first time in 2024.
Engineering orgs are under unprecedented pressure
Do more with less. AI-driven productivity is the board-level question of the year. Every CTO needs an answer; no one has a tool for the manager who has to deliver it.
Survey-based DX tools have lost trust
Teams are actively asking their leaders to stop adding homework. The category is rotating away from manual data collection toward automatic signal extraction.
Provider APIs are mature
GitHub, Jira, GitLab, Linear all expose structured data via stable APIs. The integration moat is execution velocity, not access.
Engineering management is the largest knowledge-worker function still without tooling. Every other function has a $1B+ category leader. EM is wide open.
Where we are today
- →Closed beta launched April 2026 with engineering leaders at multiple companies.
- →8+ internal teamsat the founder's day-job company requested access before the public beta opened.
- →Cross-company demand from 3 separate engineering leaders at unrelated organizations who heard about it through professional network channels.
- →Director-level exec chain reaction — internal demos surfaced upward unprompted, with multiple “when can we buy this for our org” responses.
- →Production-grade infrastructure running today: pipeline workers, observability, CI/CD, Stripe billing, multi-tenant isolation, 1,800+ automated tests, 7 languages.
What we're raising for
A seed round to accelerate four specific things.
Integration breadth
GitLab, Linear, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Slack, PagerDuty. Every system an engineering org touches.
Enterprise readiness
SOC 2 Type II, EU data residency, SSO/SCIM, audit logging. The compliance work that unlocks the largest accounts.
Go-to-market
First hires in design partner success and content. Repeatable closed-beta-to-paying-customer motion.
Model depth
Fine-tuned and distilled models for the highest-value reasoning loops. Lower inference cost, faster answers, deeper threading.
What we are not
We are not a developer surveillance tool. We do not score individual engineers in any UI. We do not sell or share data. We do not track keystrokes, meetings, or anything outside the systems the customer connects.
We are not another DORA dashboard. DORA metrics are an output of our system, not the product.
We are nota code-generation or coding-copilot tool. We complement GitHub Copilot — we tell managers what's happening with the work their team is doing, regardless of how it's being written.
Let's talk.
I'm taking conversations directly with seed funds focused on AI infrastructure, dev tools, vertical SaaS, and B2B applied AI. I respond to every inbound personally.
Drew Curley, Founder & CEO · drew@merov.ai