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Respan

Self-driving observability, evals, and gateway for AI agents

Y CombinatorWinter 2024ActiveB2BInfrastructureAIOpsArtificial IntelligenceDeveloper ToolsSaaS

What they do

Problem

Teams deploying AI agents lack unified observability and evaluation to detect issues in production and improve agent behavior quickly and reliably.

Solution

Respan provides a unified control plane combining agent tracing/observability, automated and human-in-the-loop evaluations, and an adaptive AI gateway to continuously monitor and improve agents in production.

Who it's for

AI startups and enterprise product/engineering teams building and operating AI agents in production.

Founders

Andy Li

Founder

CEO @ Respan (formerly Keywords AI) - observability, evaluations, and AI gateway for agents World-class AI teams use Respan to: - trace and evaluate agent behavior without guesswork - automatically surface issues - fix what breaks, faster Previously @ UIUC (dropped out) and Apple Product Design

Raymond Huang

Founder

CTO @ Respan (formerly Keywords AI) - the developer platform to for agent observability & evals.

Open roles 11

Founding Technical GTM

Alameda, CA, US / Remote (San Francisco, CA, US) · Full-time · $100K - $150K

Sales Development Representative

Alameda, CA, US / Remote · Full-time · $1 - $120K

Marketing

Alameda, CA, US / Remote (US) · Full-time · $1 - $120K

Designer, Product & Web

Alameda, CA, US / Remote (IN) · Full-time · $100K

Product Engineer

Alameda, CA, US / Remote (IN) · Full-time · $1 - $200K

Senior Software Engineer, Frontend

Alameda, CA, US / Remote (IN) · Full-time · $1 - $200K

Software Engineer, AI

Alameda, CA, US / Remote (IN) · Full-time · $1 - $200K

Software Engineer, Full-Stack

Alameda, CA, US / Remote (IN) · Full-time · $1 - $200K

Software Engineering Intern, Frontend (fall co-op)

Alameda, CA, US · Internship · $3K - $6K / monthly

Chief of Staff

Alameda, CA, US · Full-time · $1 - $250K

SEO & Growth Content Lead

Alameda, CA, US / Remote (US) · Full-time · $1 - $85K

Company timeline

Founded2023
YC batchWinter 2024
StatusActive
Team size15 people
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA

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