Startup Spotlight: Deeptrace puts an AI first responder on every production alert
Andy Lee and Sri Somasundaram are building Deeptrace, which described March 1st, 2026 as its official launch. Deeptrace's AI agents investigate alerts in Slack, cite evidence, and draft fixes.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Y Combinator
Why it matters
On-call investigation burns senior engineer time on context gathering across logs, traces, metrics, deploys, and code. Deeptrace aims to compress that work into a Slack memo with evidence and a draft fix, but Deeptrace must prove accuracy and safe action boundaries while Datadog, PagerDuty, and heavily funded Resolve AI ship rival SRE agents.
Andy Lee has worked on systems where a bad signal is not an abstraction. Deeptrace lists its co-founder as having worked at Tesla on visualization and simulation for Optimus, and at SpaceX on build and flight reliability for Starship, Falcon, and Dragon in its Y Combinator profile. His co-founder, Sri Somasundaram, built and launched Parafin's embedded card and banking product, according to the same profile.…
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