{"id":97177,"title":"Mendral - AI DevOps Engineer","tagline":"Mendral makes your CI green and fast","body":"Hi YC! We are building **Mendral**, an **always-on AI DevOps Engineer**.\n\nMendral is managing CI/CD in production for 15 teams. 5 of them are paying customers, including [PostHog](https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/commits?author=mendral-app%5Bbot%5D).\n\nPreviously, we were founding engineers at Docker and later co-founded Dagger together.\n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/QtTOpJ4kxpc\u003e\n\n### The problem\n\nDev teams waste thousands of engineering hours chasing broken builds, flaky tests, and fragile pipelines. Most tooling is still pre-AI. It creates alerts and dashboards, but developers still do the work. Now, with coding agents accelerating code production, CI load and failure modes are only getting worse.\n\nTeams should not need dedicated platform-engineering headcount just to keep delivery from breaking.\n\n### What Mendral does\n\nMendral **observes → diagnoses → acts → learns** across your delivery pipeline.\n\nToday, Mendral can:\n\n* Diagnose CI failures (what changed, what failed, why)\n* Detect and mitigate flaky tests\n* Identify slow builds/runs and propose fixes\n* Help with code reviews tied to delivery reliability\n\nOver time, Mendral becomes a self-improving delivery system for **performance, quality, security, and compliance**, without needing dedicated DevOps/platform headcount for smaller teams.\n\n### Ask\n\nIf your team is dealing with **flaky tests, slow CI, or recurring build failures**, we’d love to help.\n\n[Request a demo](https://www.mendral.com/early-access) and we will onboard you in under five minutes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=97177\u0026key=user_uploads/152166/a2689ea0-dd7f-46be-ab85-a6fdb00d464a)\n\n","slug":"PHN-mendral-ai-devops-engineer","created_at":"2026-01-26T19:34:11.416Z","updated_at":"2026-04-20T02:06:51.011Z","total_vote_count":57,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PHN-mendral-ai-devops-engineer","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=97177\u0026key=user_uploads/152166/a2689ea0-dd7f-46be-ab85-a6fdb00d464a","company":{"id":31210,"name":"Mendral","slug":"mendral","url":"https://mendral.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9fb8ab79d58a9a62e857747309cac10d5d41fbb2.png","batch":"Winter 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31210"}}