Canary

The first AI QA engineer that understands your code

Y CombinatorWinter 2026ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and Design

What they do

Problem

Software teams ship faster with AI coding tools but QA hasn’t kept up, leading to more customer-facing incidents and broken user flows in production.

Solution

An AI QA engineer that reads and understands the source code to infer intent and automatically test user flows, achieving high test coverage quickly without flaky DOM/screenshot-based approaches.

Who it's for

Engineering teams and developers at software companies who need faster, more reliable QA and test coverage.

Founders

Aakash Mahalingam

Founder

Building Canary: The first AI QA engineer that understands code. Previously built Windsurf's enterprise product, worked on Applied AI tooling around foundational models for enterprises. Launched the enterprise self-serve plan to $20M ARR in 6 months. ICPC APAC finalist.

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Viswesh N G

Founder

Co-founding Canary with a team of ex-Windsurf, Cognition and Google engineers. Canary is the first AI QA engineer that understands your codebase. AI coding tools have made developers 100x faster, but QA hasn't kept up. Unlike tools that rely on flaky DOM scraping, screenshot analysis or vision based models, Canary reads your source code directly to understand developer intent and catch what others miss. We help engineering teams go from weeks of manual testing to 90%+ test coverage in days.

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