Engineering teams managing large-scale, sprawling infrastructure are burdened with on-call support, detracting from their core tasks. This not only imposes a heavy cognitive load but it consumes nearly 80% of tech companies’ resources and budgets. San Francisco-based Cleric eliminates these challenges by enabling engineering teams to resolve orders of magnitude and more issues in a fraction of the time.
Raises seed round
Now, Cleric has secured $4.3M in seed funding led by Silicon Valley-based Zetta Venture Partners with participation from AI infrastructure angel investors, including leaders at Google Cloud, Sysdig, Tecton, and Neo4J.
Cleric will use the funding to scale R&D efforts in its San Francisco and Singapore offices, with a focus on expanding its suite of integrations and fostering strategic partnerships.
First autonomous AI engineer
Cleric’s co-founders, Shahram Anver and Willem Pienaar, witnessed these challenges that product and platform teams firsthand while managing the sprawling infrastructure at Gojek. To resolve the same, they created the startup, which works with mission to automate infrastructure management through AI-led solutions. Cleric empowers organisations to optimise reliability, enhance productivity, and drive innovation.
The company has announced the first autonomous AI site reliability engineer (SRE) teammate to free engineering teams from the burden of providing on-call support. Cleric runs 24/7 autonomously, triages 1,000s of alerts simultaneously, and on average only takes 5 minutes to diagnose an issue. Notably, Cleric’s AI can make judgment calls and operate tools on the engineer’s behalf and shield them from time-consuming investigations.
“For the first time, AI can use judgment to operate tools on our behalf. We’ve unlocked a new level of automation that frees up engineers to focus on higher-value work,” said Shahram Anver, CEO and co-founder of Cleric.
“The way our AI agent solves problems is fundamentally different from a human. Just as AI transformed strategies in games like Chess and Go, we foresee a similar shift in engineering operations with the introduction of AI teammates,” said Willem Pienaar, CTO and co-founder of Cleric.
“Shahram, Willem, and the Cleric team hold iconoclastic beliefs about how language model agents will reshape engineering tasks like incident response, observability, and infrastructure provisioning,” said James Alcorn, Partner at Zetta Venture Partners. “Zetta was immediately attracted to those bold ambitions, and is thrilled to help make them a reality as Cleric’s seed partner.”
