Key Points
- Founded by former Periscope and Twitter executives Kayvon Beykpour, Joe Bernstein, and Rob Bishop
- AI‑powered platform that analyzes codebases via GitHub integration
- Offers natural‑language summaries, bug detection, and product insight features
- Integrates with Slack, JIRA and Linear for seamless workflow adoption
- Priced at $30 per active developer per month, with enterprise options
- Backed by a Series A round led by Lightspeed, total funding $40 million
- Early customers include XMTP, United Masters, Bilt and A24 Labs
- Claims to catch 5% more bugs and reduce comment volume by 75% in tests
Founders and Vision
Macroscope was co‑founded by former Periscope and Twitter executives Kayvon Beykpour, Joe Bernstein, and Rob Bishop. Beykpour, who previously served as Twitter’s head of product, described the pain points of tracking work across large engineering teams and the desire for a tool that could summarize code activity without constant meetings. The trio leveraged their experience building and selling previous startups to create an AI‑powered solution that they say they “wish we’d had” during earlier ventures.
Product Capabilities
The platform works by installing a GitHub app that gains access to a company’s codebase. Optional integrations with Slack, Linear and JIRA allow teams to receive AI‑generated insights directly in their workflow. Using a process called “code walking,” Macroscope builds an abstract syntax tree (AST) representation of the code, then combines that structural knowledge with large language models to answer natural‑language questions, summarize pull requests, flag potential bugs, and provide real‑time product updates.
Engineers can ask the system to summarize a pull request, discover bugs, or research code‑related queries without needing deep technical expertise. Product leaders gain visibility into engineering priorities, productivity metrics, and weekly accomplishments through concise AI‑generated summaries.
Pricing and Market Adoption
Macroscope is priced at $30 per active developer per month, with a minimum of five seats. Enterprise pricing and custom integrations are available for larger organizations. The service requires GitHub Cloud and is currently being used by startups and larger firms such as XMTP, Things, United Masters, Bilt, Class.com, Seed.com, ParkHub and A24 Labs.
Funding and Investors
The San Francisco‑based startup raised a Series A round led by Michael Mignano at Lightspeed, with participation from Adverb, Thrive Capital and Google Ventures. The round closed in July and brought the total funding to $40 million.
Macroscope positions itself against existing code‑review tools, claiming internal benchmarks that show it catches 5% more bugs than the next‑best solution while generating 75% fewer comments. With a team of about 20 engineers, the company aims to streamline development workflows and reduce the time engineers spend in meetings, allowing them to focus on building.
Source: techcrunch.com