The founder, who previously sold live streaming video startup Periscope to Twitter, has returned to his new startup. It’s not surprising. This time we are focusing on AI.
On Wednesday, former Twitter product head Kayvon Beykpour announced the launch of Macroscope, an AI system aimed at developers and product leaders who summarise codebase updates and catch bugs and more.
The startup was co-founded by Macroscope CEO Beykpour in July 2023 and was sold to Blackboard in 2009 along with Joe Bernstein, a childhood friend of Periscope and former enterprise startup Terribly Clever.
The company describes its product as an “AI-powered understanding engine” designed to save engineers time. It also describes the types of products that founders “want to have” when building their previous companies.
Today, engineers use a variety of tools to spend too much time meetings instead of tracking and building jobs like Jira, Linear, Spreadsheets and more, says Beykpour. Macroscope is designed to fix this.
“I feel like I was in this pain. In every company I worked, whether it was a startup that built ourselves, or a huge public company like Twitter, we lived this issue in a difficult way,” Beykpour told TechCrunch in an interview.
“It was literally most of my job, especially when there is an organization like Twitter that has thousands of engineers, aiming to feel what everyone is doing.
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To address this issue and more, Macroscope customers will first install the GitHub app. This allows the company to access the codebase. You can then optionally install other integrations such as the Slack app, Linear app, Jira app, etc. The software does the rest of the work by analyzing the code and paying attention to what is changing.
This involves a process called code walking, a structural representation of programming code, using an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST), gathering important contexts about how a customer’s codebase works. That knowledge is used in conjunction with large-scale language models (LLM).
Once up and running, engineers can use macroscopes to discover bugs and fix them in PRS (pull requests), summarise the PRS, get a summary of how to change the code base, and ask code research-based questions. Meanwhile, product readers can use the software to get real-time summaries such as product updates, productivity insights, and answers to natural language questions about products, code, or development activities. This helps you determine which teams prioritize when it comes to engineering assignments.
“You can ask natural language questions regardless of what your technical capabilities are,” Beykpour said. “This can be very useful if you’re trying to learn about the codebase without distracting the team’s senior engineers. It’s invaluable. If you’re the CEO and want to understand the literal “what we did this week,” your option is to ask Macrosscope or distract your teammates,” he adds. “One is much more expensive than the other.”
There is no product that offers all the competitors that Macroscope offers, but it will conflict in the code review space (a code review space where developers look and test changes to their code before they can be implemented) using tools like Coderabbit, Cursor Buggot, Graphite Diamond, Greptile, and more. However, the company said its product caught 5% more bugs than its next best tool when it ran its own internal benchmarks of over 100 real-world bugs. We also reduced comments by 75%. (I publicly shared my benchmarks in my blog post.)
The software offers enterprise pricing and custom integrations for large companies at $30 per month, starting with five seats. You must use the GitHub cloud. Prior to launch, many startups and large companies use the product, including XMTP, Things, United Masters, Bilt, Class.com, Seed.com, Parkhub, A24 Labs.
The San Francisco-based startup has a team of 20, which closed in July and has received $30 million in support of Series A funding led by Lightspeed’s Michael Mignano. Other investors include adverbs, Thrive Capital and Google Ventures. To date, Macrosscope has raised a total of $40 million.
